R Weekly 2020-29 Shiny contest winners, Posts you might have missed, R pkg how-to

20 Jul 2020

Release Date: 2020-07-13

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

Highlight

• Winners of the 2nd Annual Shiny Contest

• R Posts You Might Have Missed!

• How to write your own R package and publish it on CRAN

Insights

• Interoperability: Getting the Most Out of Your Analytic Investments

• Build with R, deploy with Python (without leaving RStudio!)

• Forecasting R (Virtual) Workshop – the pupil’s perspective

• Winners of the 2nd Annual Shiny Contest

• R Posts You Might Have Missed!

R in the Real World

• Estimating expected win percentage for the current NBA season

• Defensive Interactions From Tracking Data, code

• Doing More With StatsBomb Data in R

R in Organizations

• CRAN Checks API News: Documentation, Notifications, and More

R in Academia

• A brief paper about the usage of R language as a tool for Biometeorological research

Resources

• Maintaining an R Package - Community Call Summary

• A ggplot2 grammar guide

• How to write your own R package and publish it on CRAN

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {Tidygeocoder} 1.0:

• {tidytuesdayR} 1.0.1: Download and work with the TidyTuesday Data without leaving your console

• {frak}: A julia set fractal generator

• {displease}: A package for non-linear numeric inteprolation

• {oxcovid19}: An R API to the Oxford COVID-19 Database

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {darklyplot}: Dark themed time series plots

• {clickrup}: Interacting with the ClickUp v2 API from R

Updated Packages

• {broom} 0.7.0: Summarize statistical model objects in tidy tibbles

• {sparklyr} 1.3: Higher-order Functions, Avro and Custom Serializers

• {stringdist} 0.9.6: Approximate String Matching, Fuzzy Text Search, and String Distance Functions

• {tune} 0.1.1: A tidy interface for optimizing model tuning parameters

• {readODS} 1.7: Read and write OpenDocument Spreadsheet files

• {nnetsauce} 0.5: Randomized neural networks on GPU

• {RcppArmadillo} 0.9.900.2.0: A C++ template library for linear algebra

Videos and Podcasts

• Introduction to {caladown}, docs

• Avoid Dashboard Fatigue, resources

• useR! 2020 Tutorial: Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp, slides

Tutorials

• Search your tweets with an automatic pipeline

• Bagging with tidymodels and #TidyTuesday astronaut missions

• Comparing Variable Importance Functions (For Modeling)

• clientsdb - A docker image with clients comments

• Teaching the Tidyverse in 2020 - Part 1: Getting Started, Part 2: Data Visualisation

• R Package Integration with Modern Reusable C++ Code Using Rcpp - Part 2

• {hexmake} is one of the 5 Grand Prizes of the 2020 Shiny Contest

• Doing Maths Symbolically: R as a Computer Algebra System (CAS)

• Regression discontinuity model for TV series

• Creating custom neural networks with nnlib2Rcpp

• RTutor: Quantifying Social Spillovers in Movie Ticket Sales

• Tidy analysis of cocktails - Part II - Exploratory k-means clustering

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Catching up with R Graphics

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Call for Participation

• rstudio::global() call for talks

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Quotes of the Week

dplyr::case_when() "allows you to vectorise multiple if_else() statements". It's awesome & friendly. See examples: https://t.co/XBpnTQzDro

🐲👾🦑 #rstats pic.twitter.com/Oo7r57fTBQ

— Allison Horst (@allison_horst) July 13, 2020

My partner, who has no experience with R, finds the word "ggplot" so hilarious that he's now taken to randomly saying it to my 4-month-old and 2-year-old and they all crack up. This is a metaphor of some sort but I'm too tired to figure it out. #rstats

— Erica Hsiung Wojcik (@ewojcik) July 17, 2020

#rstats meets homeschool.. Ellie missed her multiplication rainbow from school so we made one together using ggplot. Code is here https://t.co/jJZl83JHRS. It would be cool to see any other educational posters or wallcharts poeple have made with R. pic.twitter.com/0K4MNQFibY

— George Savva (@georgemsavva) July 15, 2020