R Weekly 2020-14 {ggpattern}, stack traces, {ggplot2} workshop

06 Apr 2020

Release Date: 2020-04-06

This week’s release was curated by Eric Nantztwitter.com, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors. ( twitter.com )

Highlight

ggpattern: pattern & image fills for ggplot geomsgithub.com ( github.com )
A simple way to show stack trace on error in Rrenkun.me ( renkun.me )
Plotting anything with ggplot2 workshop part 2www.youtube.com ( youtube.com )

Insights

R Journal Volume 11/2journal.r-project.org ( journal.r-project.org )
Using R to tap into the genius & Spotify API to discern trends in BTS’s new album and visualise it using the ‘ggplot2’ & ‘highcharter’ packageslink.medium.com ( link.medium.com )

spotifymood

COVID-19

It’s fun to look at the Y A C M (Yet Another COVID Model)medianwatch.netlify.com ( medianwatch.netlify.com )

yacm

COVID-19 shiny / plotly dashboardmail-wolf.de ( mail-wolf.de )
COVID-19 decease animation mapr.iresmi.net ( r.iresmi.net )
Can unbalanced randomization improve power?www.rdatagen.net ( rdatagen.net )
Contagiousness of COVID-19 Part I: Improvements of Mathematical Fitting (Guest Post)blog.ephorie.de ( ephorie.de )
COVID-19 in Belgiumwww.statsandr.com ( statsandr.com )
Coronavirus : spatially smoothed decease in Francer.iresmi.net ( r.iresmi.net )

R in the Real World

“Flank Attacks Visualisation” Using StatsBomb Open Datanpranav10.github.io ( npranav10.github.io )

flank

AutoML Frameworks in R & Pythoniamnagdev.com ( iamnagdev.com )
Updates to R GUIs: BlueSky, jamovi, JASP, & RKWardr4stats.com ( r4stats.com )

ggpattern

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

{simhelpers 0.1.0}: Helper package to assist in running simulation studiesmeghapsimatrix.github.io ( meghapsimatrix.github.io )
{cartography 2.4.0}rgeomatic.hypotheses.org ( rgeomatic.hypotheses.org )

cartography

GitHub or Bitbucket

{ggcute}: A collection of cute things to use with ggplot2.github.com ( github.com )

ggcute

{flagon}: A package of just flag images in PNG and SVG formatcoolbutuseless.github.io ( coolbutuseless.github.io )
Introducing ‘optout’ - A package for optimizing graphics outputcoolbutuseless.github.io ( coolbutuseless.github.io )

Updated Packages

RcppSimdJson 0.0.4: Even Faster Upstream!dirk.eddelbuettel.com ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com )
RQuantLib 0.4.12: Small QuantLib 1.18 updatedirk.eddelbuettel.com ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com )
foreach 1.5.0 now available on CRANblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com )

Videos and Podcasts

Introductory videos for Explanatory Model Analysis with Rmedium.com ( medium.com )
Plotting anything with ggplot2 workshop part 2www.youtube.com ( youtube.com )

R Internationally

[Japanese] データフレームの変数に日本語ラベルを付けたいときill-identified.hatenablog.com ( ill-identified.hatenablog.com )

Tutorials

How to efficiently calculate pairwise overlaps of many sets: An example of progressively optimizing the speed of a functionblog.jdblischak.com ( jdblischak.com )
Five Minute Football Trivia - Trans-Europe Expresswww.robert-hickman.eu ( robert-hickman.eu )
Bootstrap resampling with #TidyTuesday beer production datajuliasilge.com ( juliasilge.com )
Visualizing decision tree partition and decision boundariespaulvanderlaken.com ( paulvanderlaken.com )

decision

What is a dgCMatrix object made of? (sparse matrix format in R)statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com ( statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com )
A simple way to show stack trace on error in Rrenkun.me ( renkun.me )
R Tip: How To Look Up Matrix Values Quicklywww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com )
B is for bind_rowswww.deeplytrivial.com ( deeplytrivial.com )
C is for coalescewww.deeplytrivial.com ( deeplytrivial.com )

R Project Updates

Updates from R Coredeveloper.r-project.org: ( developer.r-project.org )

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

A list of R conferences and meetingsjumpingrivers.github.io ( jumpingrivers.github.io )
This week’s local R-User and applied stats eventscommunity.rstudio.com ( community.rstudio.com )

More past events at R conferences & meetupsconf.rweekly.org. ( conf.rweekly.org )

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💖

Quotes of the Week

🔔Why yes, I did use {R6} OOP in #rstatstwitter.com to build an Automatic Bell Dispenser from #AnimalCrossingtwitter.com and then blogged about it: https://t.co/QftO2Z3auwt.co pic.twitter.com/y0qbzIJpMSt.co ( twitter.com )
— Matt Dray (@mattdray) April 4, 2020twitter.com ( twitter.com )

You know you’ve spent too much time using Rmarkdown when your new lockdown hobby is ‘knitting’ Turns out I'm not a natural at either🤦‍♀️#rstatstwitter.com #phdchattwitter.com #lockdowntwitter.com pic.twitter.com/D3q5IWUH7nt.co ( twitter.com )
— Rosie Williams (@RosieSWilliams1) March 31, 2020twitter.com ( twitter.com )