Issue 2022-W23 Highlights

Creating user interfaces in R with a vintage toolkit, and a candid take on learning R with the right perspectives in mind.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Sam Parmar (@parmsam_)
• {tickle}: a package for creating UIs in base R
• R will always be arcane to those who do not make a serious effort to learn it...
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W23

Supplement Resources

• More people use Tcl than know about it (2004) https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/More-people-use-Tcl-than-know-about-it
• The R Tcl/Tk Interface paper by Peter Dalgaard: https://www.r-project.org/conferences/DSC-2001/Proceedings/Dalgaard.pdf
• Mike FC's tickle annoucement tweet https://twitter.com/coolbutuseless/status/1532593976422805505
• Mike FC's take on why tickle? https://twitter.com/coolbutuseless/status/1533685352451301376
• R for data science learning community https://www.rfordatasci.com