How to easily create interactive versions of your favorite ggplots with ggiraph, bringing AutoML to R with forester, and a head-to-head comparison of R and Excel for common data wrangling and summaries. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) Creating interactive visualizations with {ggiraph} (with or without Shiny) forester: what makes the package special? Why should I use R: The Excel R Data Wrangling comparison: Part 1 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W09 Supplement Resources ggiraph online book https://www.ardata.fr/ggiraph-book {openxlsx2} read, write, and modify xlsx files https://janmarvin.github.io/openxlsx2 Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social media Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon)