R Weekly 2020-35 Updated magritter pipe, Big Book of R, R + d3

30 Aug 2020

Release Date: 2020-08-30

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

Highlight

• magrittr 2.0 is coming soon

• Big Book of R

• D3 to R to D3

Insights

• magrittr 2.0 is coming soon

• MLOPS with R and GitHub Actions

• An interview with Africa R Users’s Shelmith Kariuki

• Summary of my experiences at BioC2020 and CDSB2020

• July 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• 3 Ways to Expand Your Data Science Compute Resources

R in the Real World

• xG Model - Accuracy and Goodness-Of-Fit

• Pittsburgh City Boundary Model Leaflet Map

• Time series cross validation of effective reproduction number nowcasts by @ellis2013nz

• NBA salaries

Resources

• (Shiny app) Soccer player similarity with factor analysis

• Open Source Football (American)

• Big Book of R

• Data Science in a Box

• #29: Easy, Reliable, Fast Linux CRAN Binaries via BSPM

• How most statistical tests are linear models

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {survxai} 0.2.2: Visualization of the Local and Global Survival Model Explanations
• {amber} 1.0.3: Automated Model Benchmarking R Package
• {staplr} 3.1.0: A Toolkit for PDF Files
• {rmdwc} 0.1.1: Count Words, Chars and Non-Whitespace Chars in R Markdown Docs
• {equatiomatic} 0.1.0: Transform Models into ‘LaTeX’ Equations
• {geofabrik} 0.1.0: Downloading Open Street Map Data
• {zdeskR} 0.0.1: Connect to Your ‘Zendesk’ Data
• {sparklyr.flint} 0.1.1: Sparklyr Extension for ‘Flint’
• {ngramr} 1.7.2: Retrieve and Plot Google n-Gram Data
• {independence} 1.0: Fast Rank-Based Independence Testing
• {diffcor} 0.3.0: Fisher’s z-Tests Concerning Difference of Correlations
• {mlr3fselect} 0.2.0: Feature Selection for ‘mlr3’

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {friends}: The Entire Transcript from Friends in Tidy Format
• {soccerAnimate}: An R package to create 2D animations of soccer tracking data

Updated Packages

• {vctrs} 0.3.4: Vector Helpers
• {renv} 0.12.0: Project Environments
• {arrow} 1.0.1: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’
• {kableExtra} 1.2.1: Construct Complex Table with ‘kable’ and Pipe Syntax
• {gtsummary} 1.3.4: Presentation-Ready Data Summary and Analytic Result Tables
• {feasts} 0.1.5: Feature Extraction and Statistics for Time Series
• {glue} 1.4.2: Interpreted String Literals
• {tidyr} 1.1.2: Tidy Messy Data
• {RMariaDB} 1.0.10: Database Interface and ‘MariaDB’ Driver
• {ggnewscale} 0.4.3: Multiple Fill and Colour Scales in ‘ggplot2’
• {anytime} 0.3.9: Anything to ‘POSIXct’ or ‘Date’ Converter
• {fst} 0.9.4: Lightning Fast Serialization of Data Frames
• {writexl} 1.3.1: Export Data Frames to Excel ‘xlsx’ Format
• {dashboardthemes} 1.1.3: Customise the Appearance of ‘shinydashboard’ Applications using Themes
• {compareDF} 2.3.0: Do a Git Style Diff of the Rows Between Two Dataframes with Similar Structure

Videos and Podcasts

• What is Shiny? - Building a Shiny App Part 1

• (useR! 2020: End-to-end machine learning with Metaflow (S. Goyal, B. Galvin, J. Ge), tutorial

• TidyX Episode 24: Waffle Plots and Shiny

• R Weekly Highlights: Issue 2020-34 Highlights

• How to make a reproducible version of your R analysis that can be run in a web browser with the {holepunch} package

R Internationally

• Nombre de cas de covid dans les commissions scolaires (English)

Tutorials

• Heatmaps in ggplot2

• Detecting Security Vulnerabilities in R Packages

• Being Trendy, Learning Svelte

• D3 to R to D3

• JavaScript for the R package developer

• Factor analysis for player similarity

• Creating and Adding Subtitles to your Videos

• Sourcing data from S3 with drake

• How to Use Lightgbm with Tidymodels

• Computing Odds Ratios from Mixed Graphical Models

• How to choose a bivariate color palette?

• Scientific Name Parsing: rgnparser and namext

• Run-Length Encoding and The Problem of NAs

• R Package Integration with Modern Reusable C++ Code Using Rcpp - Part 5

• Training ImageNet with R

• How to Extract Year from Date in R with Examples

• How to Add an Empty Column to a Dataframe in R (with tibble)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 88th TokyoR Virtual Meetup - September 19th, 2020

• VirtuEARL – EARL Conference online - October 2020

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Datasets

• Some Data Packages (for teaching)

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Starting to mute anyone on #rstats who uses more than five hashtags. Simple, but actually very effective pic.twitter.com/rWMoQN0usg

— Colin Gillespie (@csgillespie) August 26, 2020

Today has been another exercise in

"Do I lack intelligence, or is this just not my area of expertise?" pic.twitter.com/UlZRJ1lAYO

— Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti (@ChelseaParlett) August 26, 2020

i feel you, r cmd check pic.twitter.com/Re3a8QDls1

— Ian Lyttle (@ijlyttle) August 28, 2020

Me to me last night: You really need to stop thinking about your code.
Me: thoughts <- thoughts %>% select(-code)

— MaddyFrumkin (@MaddyFrumkin) August 27, 2020