R Weekly 2021-W02 fastai, renv, Github Actions

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

Highlight

fastai

Insights

COVID-19 Data: The Long Run

COVID-19 Data: The Long Run

R in the Real World

Predicting the outcome of the English Premier League

Predicting injuries for Chicago traffic crashes

R in Organizations

Professional Financial Reports with RMarkdown

R in Academia

Finding Economic Articles

Tutorials

Tutorial: Adding Open Street Map Data to Rayshader Maps in R

Custom Google Analytics Dashboards with R

Rtini Part II: Vectorize the Absolute $#!+ Out of This

A guide to dynamically show a light/dark plot

Resources

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

nbapalettes nbapalettes

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GitHub or Bitbucket

  • {gibboda}: Gender Isn’t Binary But Other Data Are.

  • {vegadown}: ‘knitr’ Engine to Render ‘YAML’ and ‘JSON’ into ‘Vega’.

  • {quicknews}: Some R-functions for navigating the online news landscape.]

Updated Packages

circlize

bayesplot

treemapify

fastai

leaflet

gtsummary

ggeasy

eplusr

tidytext

modelsummary

SHAPforxgboost

gggibbous

  • {mully} 2.1.31: Create, Modify and Visualize Multi-Layered Networks

  • {libr} 1.1.1: Libraries, Data Dictionaries, and a Data Step for R

  • {xfun} 0.20: Miscellaneous Functions by ‘Yihui Xie’

Shiny Apps

In Review: Your 2020 on Twitter

Creating a Shiny app for your stock portfolio

Videos and Podcasts

R Internationally

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core

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