Issue 2024-W04 Highlights

How the babeldown package enables low-friction updates to living documents, uncovering innovative functions all within the base R installation, and supercharging a static Quarto dashboard with interactive tables and visualizations.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• How to Update a Translation with Babeldown
• Six not-so-basic base R functions
• 3MW (Making dashboard interactive)
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W04

Supplement Resources

• babeldown R package https://docs.ropensci.org/babeldown/
• DeepL API https://www.deepl.com/en/docs-api
• Albert Rapp's Quarto dashboard repository https://github.com/AlbertRapp/quarto_dashboard/tree/master

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