R Weekly 2020-48 Your first R package, magrittr, engineering Shiny

30 Nov 2020

Release Date: 2020-11-30

This week’s release was curated by Maëlle Salmon, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.

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Highlights

• Your first R package in 1 hour

• magrittr 2.0 is here!

• Use case from “Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps” - Building an App, from Start to Finish

Insights

• It Doesn’t Just Happen (useR! 2021)

• Welcome Margot, the Marmot! (useR! 2021)

• Reduced Service Mode for R-Ladies Global

• Least squares as springs- Physics intuition for regression

R in the Real World

• Custom Google Analytics Dashboards with R: Downloading Data

• COVID-19 Mobility Data

• Reverse Engineering AstraZeneca’s Vaccine Trial Press Release

• To peek or not to peek after 32 cases? Exploring that question in Biontech/Pfizer’s vaccine trial

• Exploring My Spotify Listening

R in Organizations

• #4 Automated installation of R web server for Shiny and RStudio with Docker Compose

R in Education

• Online Tests for TestVision with R/exams

• Implementing version control with Git and GitHub as a learning objective in statistics and data science courses

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

2020-11-29 12:42:00 new-pkgs of the last 7 days with the server time

• {SeleMix} 1.0.2: Selective Editing via Mixture Models
• {stpm} 1.7.9: Stochastic Process Model for Analysis of Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Outcomes
• {transx} 0.0.1: Transform Univariate Time Series
• {oxcgrt} 0.1.0: An Interface to the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker API
• {geodimension} 1.0.0: Definition of Geographic Dimensions
• {archeofrag} 0.6.0: Refitting and Stratigraphic Analysis in Archeology
• {iNZightRegression} 1.3.0: Tools for Exploring Regression Models with ‘iNZight’
• {IMEC} 0.2.0: Ising Model of Explanatory Coherence
• {GPP} 0.1: Gaussian Process Projection
• {arctools} 1.0.0: Processing and Physical Activity Summaries of Minute Level Activity Data
• {campfin} 1.0.4: Wrangle Campaign Finance Data
• {gfiExtremes} 1.0.0: Generalized Fiducial Inference for Extremes
• {etrader} 0.1.2: ‘ETRADE’ API Interface for R
• {diathor} 0.0.1: Calculate Ecological Information and Diatom Based Indices
• {affinitymatrix} 0.1.0: Estimation of Affinity Matrix
• {NPMLEmix} 1.1: Two-Groups Mixture Model with Covariates
• {LMoFit} 0.1.6: Advanced L-Moment Fitting of Distributions
• {EwR} 1.4: Econometrics with R
• {stevedata} 0.1.0: Steve’s Toy Data for Teaching About a Variety of Methodological, Social, and Political Topics
• {statswalesr} 0.1.1: Easily Extract Data from ‘StatsWales’
• {ifultools} 2.0-19: Insightful Research Tools
• {geomnet} 0.3.1: Network Visualization in the ‘ggplot2’ Framework
• {fdaoutlier} 0.1.1: Outlier Detection Tools for Functional Data Analysis
• {mitre} 0.1.1: Cybersecurity MITRE Standards Data and Digraphs
• {envir} 0.1.0: Manage R Environments Better
• {twowaytests} 1.0: Two-Way Tests in Independent Groups Designs
• {tvem} 1.0-0: Time-Varying Effect Models
• {ResearchAssociate} 0.0.1: Retrieving Publications from PubMed Database Based on User Query
• {DatastreamDSWS2R} 1.7.9: Provides a Link Between the ‘Refinitiv Datastream’ System and R
• {vindecodr} 0.1.1: Provides an Interface to the Department of Transportation VIN Decoder
• {spfda} 0.9.0: Function-on-Scalar Regression with Group-Bridge Penalty
• {reconstructKM} 0.3.0: Reconstruct Individual-Level Data from Published KM Plots
• {GREMLINS} 0.2.0: Generalized Multipartite Networks
• {DPQmpfr} 0.3-0: DPQ (Density, Probability, Quantile) Distribution Computations using MPFR
• {CME.assistant} 1.1.0: Reusable Assisting Functions for Child Mortality Estimation
• {chess} 1.0.0: Read, Write, Create and Explore Chess Games
• {kim} 0.1.11: Functions for Behavioral Science Researchers
• {htsr} 1.0.4: Hydro-Meteo Time-Series
• {gfpop} 1.0.0: Graph-Constrained Functional Pruning Optimal Partitioning
• {ezr} 0.1.5: Easy Use of R via Shiny App for Basic Analyses of Experimental Data
• {EigenR} 1.0.0: Complex Matrix Algebra with ‘Eigen’
• {eatGADS} 0.15.2: Data Management of Large Hierarchical Data
• {wal} 0.0.1: Read and Write ‘wal’ Bitmap Image Files
• {Q7} 0.1.0: Types and Features for Object Oriented Programming
• {pencal} 0.1.1: Penalized Regression Calibration (PRC)
• {CFAcoop} 0.1.0: Colony Formation Assay: Taking into Account Cellular Cooperation
• {wikifacts} 0.4.1: Get Facts and Data from Wikipedia and Wikidata
• {SpatialRegimes} 0.2: Spatial Constrained Clusterwise Regression
• {rwa} 0.0.3: Perform a Relative Weights Analysis
• {mixcure} 2.0: Mixture Cure Models
• {migrate} 0.2.0: Create Credit State Migration (Transition) Matrices
• {ennet} 0.1.0: Utilities to Extract and Analyse Text Data from the Emergency Nutrition Network Forum
• {LPsmooth} 0.1.3: LP Smoothed Inference and Graphics
• {eBsc} 4.12: “Empirical Bayes Smoothing Splines with Correlated Errors”
• {gwasforest} 1.0.0: Make Forest Plot with GWAS Data
• {aRbs} 0.0.1: Find Arbitrage Opportunities for Sports Matches
• {gwer} 2.1: Geographically Weighted Elliptical Regression
• {phonfieldwork} 0.0.10: Linguistic Phonetic Fieldwork Tools
• {LatticeDesign} 2.0-2: Lattice-Based Space-Filling Designs
• {UKFE} 0.1.1: UK Flood Estimation
• {tidyseurat} 0.1.17: Brings Seurat to the Tidyverse
• {Q2q} 0.1.0: Interpolating Age-Specific Mortality Rates at All Ages
• {NADIA} 0.4.0: NA Data Imputation Algorithms
• {mappoly} 0.2.1: Genetic Linkage Maps in Autopolyploids
• {joinet} 0.0.6: Multivariate Elastic Net Regression
• {FSinR} 2.0.5: Feature Selection
• {TGST} 1.0: Targeted Gold Standard Testing
• {text} 0.9.0: Analyses of Text using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
• {scTenifoldKnk} 1.0.0: In-Silico Knockout Experiments from Single-Cell Gene Regulatory Networks
• {personalr} 1.0.1: Automated Personal Package Setup
• {NFLSimulatoR} 0.1.0: Simulating Plays and Drives in the NFL
• {mikropml} 0.0.1: User-Friendly R Package for Supervised Machine Learning Pipelines
• {IAcsSPCR} 1.2.1: Data and Functions for “An Intro. to Accept. Samp. & SPC/R”
• {graphhopper} 0.1.1: An R Interface to the ‘GraphHopper’ Directions API
• {CVEK} 0.1-1: Cross-Validated Kernel Ensemble
• {cpss} 0.0.2: Change-Point Detection by Sample-Splitting Methods
• {cmfrec} 2.3.2: Collective Matrix Factorization for Recommender Systems
• {BCT} 1.0: Bayesian Context Trees for Discrete Time Series
• {bcr} 0.1.0: Extract Moroccan Financial Data
• {WinRatio} 1.0: Win Ratio for Prioritized Outcomes and 95% Confidence Interval
• {stacks} 0.1.0: Tidy Model Stacking
• {ppmSuite} 0.1.1: A Collection of Models that Employ a Prior Distribution on Partitions
• {pda} 1.0: Privacy-Preserving Distributed Algorithms
• {M2SMJF} 1.0: Multi-Modal Similarity Matrix Joint Factorization
• {fctbases} 1.0.0: Functional Bases
• {WRI} 0.1.0: Wasserstein Regression Inference
• {healthyR.data} 1.0.0: Data Only Package to ‘healthyR’
• {EcotoneFinder} 0.2.2: Characterising and Locating Ecotones and Communities
• {GWmodel} 2.2-2: Geographically-Weighted Models
• {kofdata} 0.1.4: Get Data from the ‘KOF Datenservice’ API
• {modmarg} 0.9.6: Calculating Marginal Effects and Levels with Errors

GitHub or Bitbucket

• convo, Enables conversations and contracts through controlled vocabulary naming conventions

• postcards, Create simple, beautiful personal websites and landing pages using only R Markdown.

• docsifier, Use docsify.js and Markdown files to create the documentation for your R package.

Updated Packages

• Sparse data structures in tidymodels

• tune 0.1.2

• magrittr 2.0 is here!

• 2020-05 Adding TikZ support to ‘dvir’

• pointblank v0.6

Videos and Podcasts

• “Your first R package in 1 hour: Tools that make R package development easy”, R-Ladies Philly with Shannon Pileggi

• “Become an R-package developer!”, R-Ladies Bergen with Maëlle Salmon

• Processing Data in Chunks in R using iotools (Option for Big Data Analysis)

Shiny Apps

• Make your day with a quick quote from Wikiquotes—Quote of The Day

R Internationally

• {propre.rpls}, le package pour réaliser les publications sur le parc locatif social en France, premier livrable de la démarche PROPRE (PROcessus de Publications REproductibles).

Tutorials

• Your first R package in 1 hour

• How to solve Sudoku with R

• How to Interpret a Scale-Location Plot (With Examples)

• the riddle(r) of the certain winner losing in the end

• xkcd Comics as a Minimal Example for Calling APIs, Downloading Files and Displaying PNG Images with R

• A latent threshold model to dichotomize a continuous predictor

• The ‘circular random walk’ puzzle: tidy simulation of stochastic processes in R

• Select Columns in R by Name, Index, Letters, & Certain Words with dplyr

• A gentle introduction: R in Digital Signal Processing

• Continuous integration for R projects: from Travis CI to GitHub actions step by step

• Use case from “Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps” - Building an App, from Start to Finish

• Generalized nonlinear models in nnetsauce

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• The Wild World of Data Repositories, rOpenSci community call, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 18:00 UTC

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Call for Participation

• You can help with BrailleR development

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Quotes of the Week

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