R Weekly 2020-45 Publishing, Prefrontal Cortex, Parentheses

09 Nov 2020

Release Date: 2020-11-09

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

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Highlight

• Single-source publishing for R users

• Using VisiumExperiment at spatialLIBD package

• RStudio 1.4 Preview: Rainbow Parentheses

Insights

• Will R Work on Apple Silicon?

• Defending the indefensible

• Why RStudio Supports Python for Data Science

• How isolate() can bite you in the butt

• time-lining the Trump presidency

• Single-source publishing for R users

• Continental or Domestic? Detailing England’s most successful clubs

• asymmetric information

• sampling w/o replacement except when replacing

• Knight’s Tour Problem

• 8 Queens Chess Problem

• PredictIt vs Five Thirty Eight: An explanation of the differences between prediction markets and polling models

• Using rvest and stringr to generate a dataframe of UK Government COVID19 Press Briefings

• M5 Competition Virtual Awards Ceremony

R in the Real World

• Different Maps, Same Data

• Financial Engineering: Static Replication of any Payoff Function

• A live election-night prediction model using The Economist’s pre-election forecast

R in Organizations

• It’s time to retire the “data scientist” label

Resources

• “Become an R Package Developer!”, Materials for R-Ladies Bergen meetup

• Using VisiumExperiment at spatialLIBD package

• A Chess Engine in RStats (Proof-of-Concept using Stockfish)

• Little useless-useful R functions – Wacky Password generator

• RStudio 1.4 Preview: Rainbow Parentheses

• torch for tabular data

• Cleaning up my R packages and config files

• Little useless-useful R functions – R Lorem Ipsum

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {shinyscreenshot}: Finally, an easy way to take screenshots in Shiny apps!

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {sfarrow}

Updated Packages

• {typed}: Static Typing for R

• {future} 1.20.1 - The Future Just Got a Bit Brighter

• {dbplyr} 2.0.0

• {RcppSimdJson} 0.1.2: New Upstream, New Utilities

Videos and Podcasts

• Debugging with Dean (in R) #2 - How isolate() can bite you in the butt!

• R para visualizar datos deportivos espaciales

R Internationally

• Tutorial on how to create interactive tables for HTML reports and web pages

• Tutorial in French on how to create static tables for PDF reports in R

Tutorials

• Biologically Plausible Fake Survival Data

• Statistical/Machine Learning explainability using Kernel Ridge Regression surrogates

• Parsing Forsyth Edwards Notation for Chess in RStats

• Parsing Chess PGN files in RStats

• My R Table Competition 2020 Submission: xG Timeline Table for Soccer/Football with {gt}!

• R & Python Rosetta Stone: EDA with dplyr vs pandas

• Trust the Future

• How to Rename Factor Levels in R using levels() and dplyr

• How is the F-statistic computed in anova() when there are multiple models?

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• [DN Unlimited 2020: Europe’s largest data science gathering

  Nov 18 – 20 online](https://r-posts.com/dn-unlimited-2020-europes-largest-data-science-gathering-nov-18-20-online/)

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Datasets

Jobs

R job alert! https://t.co/MjTEEpWOpQ

— RStatsJobsBot (@RStatsJobsBot) November 6, 2020

Get the R job of your dreams! https://t.co/ABqxyAaMFH

— RStatsJobsBot (@RStatsJobsBot) November 4, 2020

Woohoo, R job! https://t.co/Vs8u0iJQYQ

— RStatsJobsBot (@RStatsJobsBot) November 3, 2020

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

Drrrawing with purrr#rstats #creativecoding #maths

Tutorial w/code: https://t.co/JxggfYZcKz pic.twitter.com/4C5kWiaS71

— Antonio Sánchez Chinchón (@aschinchon) November 8, 2020

Day 4 - Hexagons of the #30DayMapChallenge

Mali elevation data #rstats #rspatial pic.twitter.com/P5v7ftf8ep

— Ahmadou Dicko (@dickoah) November 4, 2020

Our new kitten is called Bug. True to his name he already likes to help debugging . (All pics were taken in sequence within 30 secs and were not staged) #rstats #rcatladdies pic.twitter.com/Oy51gbASBa

— Adam Gruer (@AdamGruer) November 8, 2020