R Weekly 2019-42 {golem} & TidyTuesday, R Package, Shiny & Plumber

21 Oct 2019

Release Date: 2019-10-21

This week’s release was curated by Colin Fay, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• A golem App for #TidyTuesday, 2019-10-15

• My First R Package (Part 1)

• Productionizing Shiny and Plumber with Pins

Insights

• My First R Package (Part 1)

• 2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, October 2019

• Easy introduction to Offensive Programming

• Strange Attractors: an R experiment about maths, recursivity and creative coding

• What are Your Use Cases for rOpenSci Tools and Resources?

R in the Real World

• Where are we going? A look at the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team

• Productionizing Shiny and Plumber with Pins

• Private Security and the Pareto Principle

• Finding free science books from Springer

Resources

• locus-pocus: A small shiny app that lets you visualise your area in 3 dimensions (webgl, VR, AR)

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• Introducing ymlthis: a toolkit for working with YAML

• {orderly 1.0.1}: A lightweight but powerful reproducible reporting framework

• bigparallelr: Easy Parallel Tools

• govdown: GOV.UK Style Templates for R Markdown

• miniparquet: Read Parquet Files

GitHub or Bitbucket

• A golem App for #TidyTuesday, 2019-10-15

Updated Packages

• {shiny 1.4.0}

• {covr 3.3.2}

Videos and Podcasts

• 89 - Everyone Has a Life

Tutorials

• Vignette: Google Trends with the gtrendsR package

• Formatted spreadsheets in R

• Map coloring: the color scale styles available in the tmap package

• xaringan Tip: Add A Logo to All of Your Slides

• Settlers of Catan in R

• SQL Server Schemas & R Tip

• rBokeh – Don’t be stopped by missing arguments!

• Advancing Text Mining with R and quanteda

• Map coloring: the color scale styles available in the tmap package

• Using bwimge R package to describe patterns in images of natural structures

• Super Solutions for Shiny Apps #4 of 5: Using R6 Classes

• Selection bias, death, and dying

• Follow moving particle trajectory over raster with {rayshader}

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Tokyo.R #82, October 26

• Yes We Cran: A conference on R packages and their applications, December 6-8

• rOpenSci OzUnconf, December 11-13

• R @ ISSA, December 26

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Jobs

• Job: Junior Systems Administrator (with a focus on R/Python)

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