R Weekly 2020-47 NHS-R, testthat utility belt, bayesian networks

23 Nov 2020

Release Date: 2020-11-23

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This week’s release was curated by Jon Caldertwitter.com, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors. ( twitter.com ) 

Highlight

• NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conference – so much great content, so little time to catch it all…nhsrcommunity.com ( nhsrcommunity.com ) 

• Helper code and files for your testthat testsblog.r-hub.io ( r-hub.io ) 

• Bayesian networks and sports injuries with {bnlearn}www.hfshr.xyz ( hfshr.xyz ) 

Insights

• Moving away from Travis CIropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• Apple Silicon + Big Sur + RStudio + R Field Reportrud.is ( rud.is ) 

• October 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packagesrviews.rstudio.com ( rviews.rstudio.com ) 

• fulltext: Behind the Scenesropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• #BlackInDataWeek 2020education.rstudio.com ( education.rstudio.com ) 

• COVID-19 Posts: A Public Dataset Containing 400+ COVID-19 Blog Postsr-posts.com ( r-posts.com ) 

R in the Real World

• Applying PCA to fictional character personalitieswww.alexcookson.com ( alexcookson.com ) 

• More on Biontech/Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine trial: Adjusting for interim testing in the Bayesian analysisskranz.github.io ( skranz.github.io ) 

• Most popular on Netflix, Disney+, Hulu and HBOmax. Weekly Tops for last 60 daysr-posts.com ( r-posts.com ) 

R in Organizations

• NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conferencehutsons-hacks.info ( hutsons-hacks.info ) 

• NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conference – so much great content, so little time to catch it all…nhsrcommunity.com ( nhsrcommunity.com ) 

• NHSr – Rguably the Best Conference in the Worldnhsrcommunity.com ( nhsrcommunity.com ) 

• RStudio 1.4 Preview: New Features in RStudio Server Problog.rstudio.com ( rstudio.com ) 

• shinysnip a VSCode Extension for Shiny Code Snippetsmarketplace.visualstudio.com ( marketplace.visualstudio.com ) 

Resources

• Awesome R Learning Resourcesgithub.com ( github.com ) 

• The Mathematics and Statistics of Infectious Disease Outbreaksstaff.math.su.se ( staff.math.su.se ) 

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {maptiles} 0.1.1rgeomatic.hypotheses.org: Download and Display Map Tiles ( rgeomatic.hypotheses.org ) 

• {trendeval} 0.0.1cran.r-project.org: Evaluate Trending Models ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {pocketapi} 0.1cran.r-project.org: Wrapper Around the ‘Pocket’ API ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {matuR} 0.0.1.0cran.r-project.org: Athlete Maturation and Biobanding ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {covid19sf} 0.1.0cran.r-project.org: The Covid19 San Francisco Dataset ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {lazysf} 0.1.0cran.r-project.org: Delayed Read for ‘GDAL’ Vector Data Sources ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {cinaR} 0.1.0cran.r-project.org: A Computational Pipeline for Bulk ‘ATAC-Seq’ Profiles ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {driveR} 0.2.0cran.r-project.org: Prioritizing Cancer Driver Genes Using Genomics Data ( cran.r-project.org ) 

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {ggmacc} 0.1.0github.com: R package repository for building marginal abatement cost curves with ggplot2. ( github.com ) 

Updated Packages

• {d3r} 0.9.1cran.r-project.org: ‘d3.js’ Utilities for R ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {dm} 0.1.9cran.r-project.org: Relational Data Models ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {magrittr} 2.0.1cran.r-project.org: A Forward-Pipe Operator for R ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {tune} 0.1.2cran.r-project.org: Tidy Tuning Tools ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {tabr} 0.4.4cran.r-project.org: Music Notation Syntax, Manipulation, Analysis and Transcription in R ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {tidyxl} 1.0.7cran.r-project.org: Read Untidy Excel Files ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {ggraph} 2.0.4cran.r-project.org: An Implementation of Grammar of Graphics for Graphs and Networks ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {rtrek} 0.3.2cran.r-project.org: Datasets and Functions Relating to Star Trek ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {here} 1.0.0cran.r-project.org: A Simpler Way to Find Your Files ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {rprojroot} 2.0.2cran.r-project.org: Finding Files in Project Subdirectories ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• {constants} 1.0.0www.enchufa2.es: Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty - Update to 2018 CODATA values ( enchufa2.es ) 

• {pathfindR} 1.6.0cran.r-project.org: Enrichment Analysis Utilizing Active Subnetworks ( cran.r-project.org ) 

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD: Episode 119 - Election Night Data Sciencenssdeviations.com ( nssdeviations.com ) 

• TidyX: Episode 36 - Plotly Animationswww.youtube.com ( youtube.com ) 

• Shiny Developer Series Episode 16: Jiena McLellanshinydevseries.com ( shinydevseries.com ) 

Shiny Apps

• Music collaboration discoverysvitkin.rbind.io ( svitkin.rbind.io ) 

• corporaexplorer: A Shiny app/R package for dynamic exploration of text collectionskgjerde.github.io ( kgjerde.github.io ) 

• How California Uses Shiny in Production to Fight COVID-19blog.rstudio.com ( rstudio.com ) 

Tutorials

• Animating Expected Possession Value in the NBA: Part 2insidethetv.rbind.io ( insidethetv.rbind.io ) 

• Textrecipes Version 0.4.0www.hvitfeldt.me ( hvitfeldt.me ) 

• Updated Apache Drill R JDBC Interface Package {sergeant.caffeinated} With {dbplyr} 2.x Compatibilityrud.is ( rud.is ) 

• Little useless-useful R functions – Same function names from different packages or namespacestomaztsql.wordpress.com ( tomaztsql.wordpress.com ) 

• AzureTableStor: R interface to Azure table storage serviceblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Helper code and files for your testthat testsblog.r-hub.io ( r-hub.io ) 

• Bayesian networks and sports injuries with {bnlearn}www.hfshr.xyz ( hfshr.xyz ) 

• Demo: Rendering Images in Polygons with {ggplot2} and {ggpattern}coolbutuseless.github.io ( coolbutuseless.github.io ) 

• How to Catch a Thief: Unmasking Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme with Benford’s Lawblog.ephorie.de ( ephorie.de ) 

• How to export high quality images in Raebou.rbind.io ( aebou.rbind.io ) 

• Create a map of a country with the neighbouring countries and an inset mapaebou.rbind.io ( aebou.rbind.io ) 

• Animated map of ships, 1750-1799www.simoncoulombe.com ( simoncoulombe.com ) 

• Graphical User Interfaces were a mistake but you can still make things rightwww.brodrigues.co ( brodrigues.co ) 

R Project Updates

Updates from R Coredeveloper.r-project.org: ( developer.r-project.org ) 

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetingsjumpingrivers.github.io ( jumpingrivers.github.io ) 

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats eventscommunity.rstudio.com ( community.rstudio.com ) 

Call for Participation

• Join Us Dec 10 at the COVID-19 Data Forum: Using Mobility Data To Forecast COVID-19 Caseswww.r-consortium.org ( r-consortium.org ) 

• The Wild World of Data Repositoriesropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

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Quotes of the Week

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