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 (https://twitter.com/thercast)) Welcome our brand new co-host Mike Thomas! (@mike_ketchbrook (https://twitter.com/mike_ketchbrook)) Pull Request Flow with usethis (https://www.garrickadenbuie.com/blog/pull-request-flow-usethis/) 2021 New York R Conference Videos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlzRFZmxVl9RVwRP6WKOUXTiRMFkF2cPF) {ggalignment} 1.0.0 (https://cran.r-project.org/package=ggalignment): Plots 'D&D'-Style Alignment Charts Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W41 (https://rweekly.org/2021-W41.html) Supplement Resources {gert} (https://docs.ropensci.org/gert): Simple Git client for R Jared Lander's talk: GPU Computing in R (https://youtu.be/fKWaErupNKE) Megan Robertson's talk: Creating Production-Level Data Science Code (https://youtu.be/F3lC4qf84FI) Dungeons & Dragons alignment history on Wikipedia!