Issue 2023-W40 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights

A new contender for speedy fuzzy joins of data frames enough to make Sonic jealous, a novel use of ggplot2 for creating a map that could have come from a vintage typewriter, and the immense progress of detecting R package system dependencies.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[e-mail] (Mastodon)
• {zoomerjoin} 0.1.0: Superlatively-fast fuzzy-joins in R.
• Creating typewriter-styled maps in ggplot2
• System Dependencies in R Packages & Automatic Testing
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W40

Supplement Resources

• Locality-sensitive hashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing
• Value 4 Value podcast by Kyrin Down https://blubrry.com/1475054/

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