R Weekly 2020-31 shiny modules, exploring data, rstudio::global()

03 Aug 2020

Release Date: 2020-08-03

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

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{assertive.reflection} 0.0-5: Assertions for Checking the State of R
{bsub} 1.0.0: Submitter and Monitor of the ‘LSF Cluster’
{faq} 0.1.0: Create FAQ Page
{AEenrich} 1.0.0: Adverse Event Enrichment Tests
{ascii} 2.3: Export R Objects to Several Markup Languages
{runonce} 0.2.2: Run Once and Save Result

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{glossario}: A Multilingual Glossary
{lz4lite}: extremely fast compression with LZ4
{fabricerin}: Taking notes / drawing within RMarkdown documents and Shiny apps
{ggkeyboard}: Make a keyboard using ggplot2
{corrmorant}: R package for flexible correlation matrices based on ggplot2
{highlighter}: A simple shiny app for highlighting text

Updated Packages

{bubblyr} 0.1.2: Beautiful Bubbles in Shiny and RMarkdown Backgrounds
{anytime} 0.3.8: Minor Maintenance
{ttdo} 0.0.6: Bugfix
{brms} 2.13.5: Bayesian Regression Models using ‘Stan’
{tidyr} 1.1.1: Tidy Messy Data
{dplyr} 1.0.1: A Grammar of Data Manipulation
{crul} 1.0.0: HTTP Client
{foghorn} 1.2.3: Summarize CRAN Check Results in the Terminal
{bit64} 4.0.2: A S3 Class for Vectors of 64bit Integers
{srvyr} 0.4.0: ‘dplyr’-Like Syntax for Summary Statistics of Survey Data
{ckanr} 0.5.0: Client for the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (‘CKAN’) API
{gistr} 0.9.0: Work with ‘GitHub’ ‘Gists’
{primes} 1.0.0: Generate and Test for Prime Numbers
{shinycssloaders} 1.0.0: Add Loading Animations to a ‘shiny’ Output While It’s Recalculating
{badger} 0.0.8: Badge for R Package
{ttdo} 0.0.6: Extend ‘tinytest’ with ‘diffobj’
{RBNZ} 1.1.0: Download Data from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Website
{journalabbr} 0.2.1: Journal Abbreviations for BibTeX Documents
{listdown} 0.2.21: Create R Markdown from Lists
{ropenaq} 0.2.10: Accesses Air Quality Data from the Open Data Platform OpenAQ
{rstan} 2.21.2: R Interface to Stan
{TMB} 1.7.18: Template Model Builder: A General Random Effect Tool Inspired by ‘ADMB’
{highcharter} 0.8.2: A Wrapper for the ‘Highcharts’ Library
{survminer} 0.4.8: Drawing Survival Curves using ‘ggplot2’
{rvest} 0.3.6: Easily Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages
{robotstxt} 0.7.8: A ‘robots.txt’ Parser and ‘Webbot’/’Spider’/’Crawler’ Permissions Checker
{arrow} 1.0.0: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’
{broomExtra} 4.0.4: Enhancements for ‘broom’ and ‘easystats’ Package Families
{tsibble} 0.9.2: Tidy Temporal Data Frames and Tools
{xfun} 0.16: Miscellaneous Functions by ‘Yihui Xie’
{data.table} 1.13.0: Extension of data.frame
{anytime} 0.3.8: Anything to ‘POSIXct’ or ‘Date’ Converter

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Quotes of the Week

Progress update: now plotting 1000 animated, alpha-blended circles, in a 1000x1000 window, with mouse interaction influencing rendering

All being run from an event-loop in #RStats

Renders at ~60fps. Attached vid is a realtime screen capture. @oranwutan pic.twitter.com/EAVQ8hbXM0
— mikefc (@coolbutuseless) July 29, 2020

Woo! found a great way to display uncertainties for all these estimates.

Argh, they are all quite uncertain. pic.twitter.com/bdw57DGrub
— Noam Ross (@noamross) July 28, 2020

Feel free to use this #ggplot2 cheat sheet to quickly find the right aesthetics for your geoms.

Feedback and improvements welcome #rstats https://t.co/WmuAC5i5rx pic.twitter.com/0e83VRpvYH
— Christian Burkhart (@ChBurkhart) July 26, 2020

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