R Weekly 2020-52 R Markdown Family, Table Contest

28 Dec 2020

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

We are so grateful to learn R with you every week this year. See you 2021 and happy R coding.

Highlight

• Latest News from the R Markdown Family

• Winners of the 2020 RStudio Table Contest

Videos and Podcasts

• Shiny Developer Series Episode 18: Tanya Cashorali - How Shiny has brought significant value to projects of all scales with the founder of TCB Analytics Tanya Cashorali! Hands-on demonstrations of applications Tanya built to achieve rapid prototypes and production-level dashboards ready for customers across a wide range of industries, and advice on development techniques and which skills she recommends developers level up with.

• Why R 2020 Discussion Panel - Statistical Misconceptions

• Why R 2020 Discussion Panel - Performance in R

• Why R 2020 Discussion Panel - Bioinformatics

• Why R 2020 Discussion Panel - Geospatial

• Running loops in parallel in R using foreach

• Don’t write loops in R (part 2) with purrr::reduce

Insights

• Winners of the 2020 RStudio Table Contest

• Top 10 tips to make your R package even more awesome

• The intuition behind averaging

• C++ as a second language from an R programmer’s perspective

R in the Real World

• Shiny in production for commercial clients

• Covid-19 shinyapp

• Exploring US COVID-19 Cases and Deaths

• Did the P-51 Mustang Defeat the Luftwaffe?

R in Organizations

• Newly certified instructors in December 2020

• Latest News from the R Markdown Family

Resources

• November: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• A Collection of Simple R Shortcuts

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {envi}: Environmental Interpolation using Spatial Kernel Density Estimation

• {peruse}: Sequence and Wide Data Iteration

• {erratum}: Handle Error and Warning Messages

• {CoMiRe}: Convex Mixture Regression

• {rzentra}: Client for the ‘ZENTRA Cloud’ API

• {rfieldclimate} : Client for the ‘FieldClimate’ API

• {promethee123}: PROMETHEE I, II, and III Methods

• {peacesciencer}: Various Tools and Data for Quantitative Peace Science

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {Peak-Engines}: Efficiently tune hyperparameters for GLMs to optimize leave-one-out cross-validation.

• {cyberpunk}: A function to create cyberpunk-style graphs with R based on ggplot2

Updated Packages

• {plotly} 4.9.2.2: Create Interactive Web Graphics via ‘plotly.js’

• {foreign} 0.8-80: Read Data Stored by ‘Minitab’, ‘S’, ‘SAS’, ‘SPSS’, ‘Stata’, ‘Systat’, ‘Weka’, ‘dBase’

• {bcv} 1.0.1: Cross-Validation for the SVD (Bi-Cross-Validation)

• {Matrix} 1.2-18: Sparse and Dense Matrix Classes and Methods

• {mstrio} 11.2.2.1: Interface for ‘MicroStrategy’ REST API

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

R Internationally

• (German) Schleifen parallelisieren in R mit foreach Running loops in parallel using the foreach construct.

Tutorials

• A guide for reproducible data analysis in Macedonian

• Using raster maths to calculate global aridity and changes in aridity over time in parts of Southern Africa.

• #6 How to install an R package (basics)

• Writing Retro Games that run in the R Console

• Playing with Roman numerals

• Little useless-useful R functions – Word scrambler

• Plotting from the command line — a new version of ‘graph’

• Leveraging labelled data in R

• M-F-E-O: postcards + distill - Create simple, beautiful personal websites and landing pages using only R Markdown

• A shiny app for exploratory data analysis

• 2020-06 Letting Go of Type 1 Fonts

• GooglyPlusPlus 2020!!

• Learning R: Christmas Coding Challenge

• Phonetic Fieldwork and Experiments with the phonfieldwork Package for R

• Constrained randomization to evaulate the vaccine rollout in nursing homes

• API client design: how to deal with lots of parameters?

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• RStudio::Global (January 21, 2020)

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Found the physical location for some R enthusiasts #RStats pic.twitter.com/D4FpLaQCC9

— Laura Bucci 🎄🦭 (@BucciSays) December 24, 2020

#rstats's tip of the day:

In @rstudio it's possible to visualize the variables' distribution inside the View pane. pic.twitter.com/vHh0J12nJi

— Ihaddaden M. EL Fodil, Ph.D (@moh_fodil) December 24, 2020