Issue 2021-W41 Highlights

Using the helpers from usethis for pull request workflows, 2021 New York R conference videos now available, and the origins of the newly released ggalignment package for D&D inspired alignments. Plus, a new era of the podcast begins with our new co-host Mike Thomas!

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast)
• Welcome our brand new co-host Mike Thomas! (@mike_ketchbrook)
• Pull Request Flow with usethis
• 2021 New York R Conference Videos
• {ggalignment} 1.0.0: Plots 'D&D'-Style Alignment Charts
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W41

Supplement Resources

• {gert}: Simple Git client for R
• Jared Lander's talk: GPU Computing in R
• Megan Robertson's talk: Creating Production-Level Data Science Code
• Dungeons & Dragons alignment history on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
• Afton Coombs' previous Twitch stream submitting {ggalignment} to CRAN!