R Weekly 2020-37 Tables, Column Names, and reactlog

07 Sep 2020

Release Date: 2020-09-14

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

Highlight

• 10+ Guidelines for Better Tables in R: Make tables people ACTUALLY want to read.

• Column Names as Contracts

• Episode 12: Barret Schloerke Part 1 (reactlog)

Insights

• Debunking R and Python Myths: Answering Your Questions

R in Academia

• belg: A Tool for Calculating Boltzmann Entropy of Landscape Gradients (Jakub Nowosad and Peichao Gao)

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {impliedgui}: Graphical user interface (GUI) for the implied package. The goal is to make it easier to convert bookmaker odds to proper probabilities.

• Introducing ‘snowcrash’ - a package to encode arbitrary R objects into image representations

• Gotta go fast with “{tidytable}”

• Long running calculations can freeze the UI of Shiny dashboards until the calculations are complete. Appsilon has created an R package to offload long running calculations so that the UI of Shiny apps can remain responsive.

• tidykids is a data package for R that provides information on state-by-state spending on kids

• lofi

Updated Packages

• {weathercan} 0.4.0

• inline 0.3.16: Now with system2()

Videos and Podcasts

• 114 - We Need TikTok Help

• R-Ladies Melbourne - August 2020 - Danyang Dai - A Better Wayof Communicating with Data

• Episode 12: Barret Schloerke Part 1 (reactlog)

Gist & Cookbook

• From Data to Deliverables with R

• An overview of testing in R

• Shiny Solutions

Shiny Apps

• A Shiny app on Hong Kong District Councillors

• Baby Weight Shiny app

R Internationally

• Cartographie interactive avec R… la suite !

Tutorials

• Creating quick corporate plot themes with ggplot2

• Pivoting posteriors

• Embedding flexdashboard in pkgdown site

• 10+ Guidelines for Better Tables in R: Make tables people ACTUALLY want to read.

• PCA tidyverse style

• Sharing reproducible and interactive environments in R with Binder

• Column Names as Contracts

• Medium Data and Production API Pipeline

• Beyond gifs

• How to use R to remove audiobooks from your Spotify liked songs

• Simulating paths from a random walk

• Fake Data with R

• Getting Tabular Data Through JavaScript in Compiled R Markdown Documents

• Introduction to Stan in R

• R Internet: Yet Another Way To Send Emails On Windows

• The one with the most words

• Hierarchical Clustering in R

• Easy email invites for your Shiny app users

• Date-time Conversion in R with format and strptime

• R Base Gems

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

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

• Why R? 2020 (Remote) - September 24-27

• VirtuEARL – EARL Conference online - October 2020

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Jobs

• The Health Foundation (London, UK): Data Engineer

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

Are you a runner, into R, and on Strava?

I just opened a Club on @Strava so that we can create a worldwide group of #RStats athletes :)

Join, and invite your fellow R-friendshttps://t.co/q7PzzrNkmz

— Colin Fay 🤘 (@_ColinFay) September 7, 2020

I was today years old when I discovered that Ctrl+Alt+K finds and selects all instances of the word under the cursor on the page in the @rstudio IDE. (This is undocumented in the shortcuts page, for some reason!) #rstats @rstudiotips @R4DScommunity pic.twitter.com/GiFGo54MzU

— Tan (@_TanHo) September 8, 2020