The first wave of 2026 R Consortium technical grants has arrived, how the new ggchord2 can round out your next process visualizations, and a clever take on supplementing your prompts with R objects. 


Episode Links 

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• R Consortium Awards First Round of 2026 Technical Grants
• Chord diagrams in R with ggchord2
• R Blackmagic for LLM Prompting
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W30

Supplement Resources

• igvShiny demo app https://gladkia-igvshiny-demo.share.connect.posit.cloud/
• ggchord2: Chord diagrams with ggplot2 https://nrennie.gitlab.io/ggchord2/
• Generic Functions: The Underrated R Technique Fixing Your Worst Problems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p00um9ezh74

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