R Weekly 2020-32 shinykeyboard, TidyX, Twitter community

10 Aug 2020

Release Date: 2020-08-10

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

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Highlight

• shinykeyboard - R package to create an on-screen keyboard as a custom Shiny input binding

• TidyX Episode 21: The Birds

• A guide for helping R programmers get involved in the wonderful Twitter community!

Insights

• Will Netflix Renew the Show?

• 87th TokyoR Meetup Roundup: {data.table}, Bioconductor, & more!

R in the Real World

• A hurdle model for COVID-19 infections in nursing homes

• Another Prediction for the FIFA World Cup 2018

• Predicting pneumonia outcomes: EDA part 1

R in Organizations

• Newly certified instructors in July 2020

• R GUI Update: BlueSky User’s Guide, New Features

• Shiny on Google Cloud Run - Scale-to-Zero R Web Apps

Resources

• OSF: A Project Management Service Built for Research

• A guide for helping R programmers get involved in the wonderful Twitter community!

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {qpmadr} 0.1.0: Efficient quadratic programming solver with linear inequality, equality and box constraints

• {fabricerin} 0.1.1: Create Easily Canvas in ‘shiny’ and ‘RMarkdown’ Documents

• {tboot} 0.2.0: Tilted Bootstrap

• {chunkhooks} 0.0.1: Chunk Hooks for ‘R Markdown’

• {eyeRead} 0.0.4: Prepare/Analyse Eye Tracking Data for Reading

• {mosqcontrol} 0.1.0: Mosquito Control Resource Optimization

• {starschemar} 1.0.0: Obtaining Star Schemas from Flat Tables

• {torch} 0.0.1: Tensors and Neural Networks with ‘GPU’ Acceleration

• {maketools} 1.0.0: Exploring and Testing the Toolchain and System Libraries

• {rdrop2} 0.8.2.1: Programmatic Interface to the ‘Dropbox’ API

• {gkgraphR} 1.0.1: Accessing the Official ‘Google Knowledge Graph’ API

• {tabularmaps} 0.1.0: Create Tile-Grid Geographical Maps

• {NBShiny3} 0.1.0: Interactive Document for Working with Naive Bayes Classification

• {KMunicate} 0.0.2: KMunicate-Style Kaplan–Meier Plots

• {bspm} 0.3.4: Bridge to System Package Manager

GitHub or Bitbucket

• packer - An opinionated framework for using JavaScript with R

• flow - Visualize as flow diagrams the logic of functions, expressions, or scripts and ease debugging

• shinykeyboard - R package to create an on-screen keyboard as a custom Shiny input binding

• Introducing ‘spng’ - In-memory decoding of PNG images

• Introducing ‘pixelweaver’ - Convert arrays/matrices to packed ARGB32 colour format

• flashCard - Create flash cards for Shiny applications

• linne - Write CSS in R

Updated Packages

• nanotime 0.3.0: Yuge New Features!

• RcppCCTZ 0.2.8: Minor API Extension

• {tidyHeatmap} 1.1.4: A Tidy Implementation of Heatmap

• {shinybrms} 1.3.0: Graphical User Interface (‘Shiny’ App) for Package ‘brms’

• {ipaddress} 0.4.0: Tidy IP Addresses

• {DT} 0.15: A Wrapper of the JavaScript Library ‘DataTables’

• {paws} 0.1.9: Amazon Web Services Software Development Kit

• {neo4jshell} 0.1.1: Querying and Managing ‘Neo4J’ Databases in ‘R’

• {vov} 0.1.1: CSS Animations for ‘shiny’ Elements

• {modelsummary} 0.5.1: Summary Tables and Plots for Statistical Models and Data: Beautiful, Customizable, and Publication-Ready

• {brickr} 0.3.5: Emulate LEGO Bricks in 2D and 3D

• {rayshader} 0.19.2: Create Maps and Visualize Data in 2D and 3D

Videos and Podcasts

• TidyX Episode 21: The Birds

Tutorials

• Getting Started with the Tidyverse: Tutorials/Workshop Materials

• Quick Hit: Comparison of “Whole File Reading” Methods

• Basic manipulation of GIF frames with magick

• Tutorial: Getting Started with R and RStudio

• Image contours in R

• finding contour lines

• Intersecting consecutive pairs of list elements in R, an example with NBA data

• Creating R Packages with devtools

• Hugo Academic Source Links

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Join us at R/Medicine – Aug 27-29, 2020

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Datasets

• {ukpolice} 0.2.2: Download Data on UK Police and Crime

• {climate} 0.9.8: Interface to Download Meteorological (and Hydrological) Datasets

Call for Participation

<+ rstudio::global() call for talks until August the 14th

• 10 reasons why you should submit an abstract for EARL

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Quotes of the Week

This is a huge announcement that hasn't gotten much attention yet. #rstats users will finally be able to get their bar graphs with hatching:
Gradient fill, pattern fill, masks, and clipping paths in the R graphics engine. https://t.co/8KPDsPVFUv pic.twitter.com/snDKSiBmlQ

— Claus Wilke (@ClausWilke) August 6, 2020

M secret debugging technique in #RStats: automatically search for the error on #stackoverflow. Hacker level over 9000 😂 pic.twitter.com/0C79j9iRU9

— Thomas Neitmann (@thomas_neitmann) August 8, 2020

Sidetracked by @JonTheGeek - animated hex with movement from a 2d physics simulation.

* Orchestrated in #RStats
* Sim in Chipmunk2d
* Image rendering in CairoGraphics pic.twitter.com/gSfTIOFqQR

— mikefc (@coolbutuseless) August 9, 2020