R Weekly 2020-06 RStudio::Conf, Corona virus dashboard, {lcars}
Release Date: 2020-02-10
This week’s release was curated by Ryo Nakagawara, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.
Highlight
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Back from rstudio::conf(2020) - My talk, Q&A’s, and other conference experiences - Yihui Xie
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{lcars}: Provides Shiny widgets and Shiny UI theme that support an LCARS aesthetic for Shiny apps
Insights
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Back from rstudio::conf(2020) - My talk, Q&A’s, and other conference experiences - Yihui Xie
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The Fun of Building Things and the Challenge of Learning - the rOpenSci OzUnconf 2019
R in the Real World
Resources
New Packages
CRAN
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{rawKS}: Easily Get True-Positive Rate and False-Positive Rate and KS Statistic
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{carbonate}: Create beautiful images of source code using ‘carbon.js’
GitHub or Bitbucket
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{shredder}: API that incites exploration and iteration of rstan simulation objects
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{lcars}: Provides Shiny widgets and Shiny UI theme that support an LCARS aesthetic for Shiny apps
Updated Packages
Videos and Podcasts
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R-Podcast: Episode 32 - Eric shares his perspective on RStudio’s move to become a PBC and talks with software engineer Kevin Ushey on his adventures with developing the RStudio IDE and dependency management with
{packrat}
and{renv}
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NSSD 100: Live from RStudio Conf 2020 - In this episode Hilary and Roger discuss how ideas evolve over time and use examples from this podcast to illustrate their views on data analysis and design thinking.
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#DataFemme Episode 11 - Some Unfiltered Musings from RStudioConf
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Predictive modeling in R with tidymodels and NFL attendance (TidyTuesday) - Julia Silge
Tutorials
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core:
Upcoming Events in 3 Months
Events in 3 Months:
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satRday Newcastle upon Tyne, April the 4th, Call for speakers for #satRdayNCL closes 31st Jan.
More past events at R conferences & meetups.
Datasets
Jobs
Call for Participation
Quotes of the Week
For those who have been doing #ggplot2 for a while; what would you wish you understood better/knew how to do? #rstats
— Thomas Lin Pedersen (@thomasp85) February 5, 2020
wowwww ok TIL there is an #rstats function to *uncount* data - have count data but want the raw data back? tidyr::uncount() to the rescue 🤯 pic.twitter.com/PN9fVIe1bl
— Sharla Gelfand (@sharlagelfand) February 5, 2020
The dm package from @krlmlr provides a grammar of joined tables: you can filter, mutate, or select on particular variables within a combined set of tables (local or remote) and the changes propagate through 🤯🎉https://t.co/ID1ITZ7BHM #rstats #rstatsnyc pic.twitter.com/nhQ2DIMCE1
— David Robinson (@drob) February 5, 2020