Just gave an #rstats brain dump talk of pkgs/functions I've ♥️ over the last couple months. Aimed for the less obvious choices and called them "secret tRacks" after the cassette tape surprises (yes, I'm old) 🧵
`pak` rocks my world as package manger of choice over install.packages/devtools/remotes pak.r-lib.org
If you're not making animated svgs with `asciicast` you're missing out github.com/r-lib/asciicast
Emojis are v important. Find their unicodes for Rmd with ermoji github.com/gadenbuie/ermo…
Are you even a tech person if you don't use tons of web icons? `icons` got ya covered pkg.mitchelloharawild.com/icons/
How is this hot mess of an Excel spreadsheet different than the last one? `waldo` knows waldo.r-lib.org
Improve the rendering of your graphics by replacing png()/jpeg()/tiff() with agg_png()/agg_jpeg()/agg_tiff() ragg.r-lib.org
Don't let your gif joke get ruined when you land on a Xaringan slide mid-clip!!! xaringanExtra::freezeframe() guarantees play from the beginning and gives manual gif controls if you want them github.com/gadenbuie/xari…
janitor::tabyl() is the future of cross-tabulation cran.r-project.org/web/packages/j…
What did we do to deserve gtsummary? danieldsjoberg.com/gtsummary/
Avoid sidecar legends, and instead color-code your titles with ggtext wilkelab.org/ggtext/
Copying janky web data into a flawless tibble via datapasta is magic I will never fully understand milesmcbain.github.io/datapasta/
Interactive ggplots with ggiraph will save you when you find plotly doesn't work well in shiny/xaringan davidgohel.github.io/ggiraph/
Ship your code to arrive in style with styler styler.r-lib.org
Full talk here tgerke.github.io/secret-tracks/ with all the credit to these geniuses (who you should follow but I didn't want to tag and potentially wreck their mentions 😅) 
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