Top 3 coding best practices from the Shiny contest, improvements in Target Markdown for {targets} 0.6.0, and the new {facetious} package for alternative facets with {ggplot2} Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast (https://twitter.com/thercast)) Top 3 Coding Best Practices from the Shiny Contest (https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/07/22/three-shiny-best-practices-seen-in-the-shiny-contest/) {targets} 0.6.0 (https://cran.r-project.org/package=targets): Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Workflows Introducing {facetious} - alternate facets for ggplot2 (https://coolbutuseless.github.io/2021/07/20/introducing-facetious-alternate-facets-for-ggplot2/) Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W30 (https://rweekly.org/2021-W30.html) Supplement resources: Recording of my issue curation livestream! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwQAwEnwq6g) Effective communication between Shiny modules (https://shiny.rstudio.com/articles/communicate-bet-modules.html) {targets} 0.6.0 NEWS (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/targets/news/news.html) Chapter 3 - Target Markdown (https://books.ropensci.org/targets/markdown.html) Target Markdown template format (https://github.com/ropensci/targets/blob/main/inst/rmarkdown/templates/targets/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd) {targets} resources from upcoming R in Medicine workshop (https://wlandau.github.io/rmedicine2021-slides/#30)