Issue 2026-W16 Highlights

Issue 2026-W16 Highlights

From R Weekly Highlights by Eric Nantz

April 17, 2026 · 37 min · Episode 223

About this episode

This episode discusses new tools for creating pivot tables in R and orchestrating multi-agent LLM workflows.

After an unexpected break we are back with a new episode of R Weekly Highlights! If you thought the easiest way to create pivot tables was in Excel, the a new package just might change your perspective. Plus how you can pull the strings for a multi-agent LLM workflow with the new puppeteeR package. Episode Links  This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter) perspectiveR: Interactive Pivot Tables and Charts from R puppeteeR - orchestrate multiple LLM agents into coordinated workflows Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W16 Supplement Resources   Perspective upstream library https://perspective-dev.github.io You can just build your own programming language https://brodrigues.co/posts/2026-04-03-tproject.html {gglite} https://pkg.yihui.org/gglite/ Supporting the show   Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby , and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index. A new way to think…

People in this episode

Host: Eric Nantz

Topics covered

  • pivot tables
  • R programming
  • multi-agent LLM
  • data visualization
  • podcasting

Keywords

  • pivot tables
  • R Weekly Highlights
  • perspectiveR
  • puppeteeR
  • data visualization

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Organizations: R Weekly Highlights, Podcastindex.org, Alby, value4value.info

Products: perspectiveR, puppeteeR

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