R Weekly 2021-W05 rstudio::global, useR 2021 Call for Abstracts

01 Feb 2021

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

Highlight

• rstudio::global 2021 talks

• rstudio::global(2021) %>% summarise()

• 15th Mar: useR2021 Call for Abstracts

rstudio::global(2021)

• rstudio::global 2021 talks

• Top R tips and news from RStudio Global 2021

• rstudio::global(2021) %>% summarise()

• rstudio::global(2021) highlights

Insights

• Dec 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• Behind the magick: updates to imagemagick and beyond

• Hypothesis test by hand

• Learn All About HTTP Testing: Book Update

• Empirical Economics with R (Part C): Difference-in-Differences and Search Engine Marketing

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {circletyper} 1.0.0: Curve text elements in Shiny applications.

• {leaflegend} 0.1.0: Provides extensions to the ‘leaflet’ package to customize legends with images, text styling, orientation, sizing, and symbology.

• {bslib} 0.2.4: Custom ‘Bootstrap’ ‘Sass’ Themes for ‘shiny’ and ‘rmarkdown’

• {Microsoft365R} 1.0.0: Interface to the ‘Microsoft 365’ Suite of Cloud Services

GitHub

• {cronologia} 0.1.0: Create a vertical timeline in RMarkdown and Shiny

Updated Packages

• {shiny} 1.6.0: Web Application Framework for R

• {memoise} 2.0.0: Memoisation of Functions

• {knitr} 1.31: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R

• {reprex} 1.0.0: Prepare Reproducible Example Code via the Clipboard

• {arrow} 3.0.0: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’

• {vitae} 0.4.0: Curriculum Vitae for R Markdown

• {equatiomatic} 0.2.0: Transform LaTeX models into Equations

Videos and Podcasts

• How to make Boxplots in R More Informative using ggplot2, EnvStats, ggstatsplot, ggtext

Tutorials

• Make a connection to a Star Wars MySQL Database in RStudio

• How to create a simple COVID-19 map in R during a coffee break

• media bias & shared news on Twitter

• R Shiny {golem} - Utilizing the dev Files- Part 3 - Setting Up for Success

• TikTok in R!

• From the time before Tetris - ‘Beat the Computer’ puzzles

• Making It Easier To Experiment With Compiled Swift Code In R

• {fusen}: Create a package from a single RMarkdown file

• ELIZA Chatbot in R: Build Yourself a Shrink

• Backcast a Time Series for Covid-19 Truths

• Printing xaringan slides with chromote

• Income and Happiness

• How to deal with OAuth2.0 in R packages?

• A model of polygenic adaptation in an infinite population

• Pandoc Filters in Bookdown

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Call for Participation

• 28th Feb: Upcoming Why R Webinar - Efficient computation with R

• 15th Mar: useR2021 Call for Abstracts

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Working on a paper and felt like I was repeating certain words too many times. It didn't occur to me until today that there's a quick #rstats way of checking this!pic.twitter.com/roKyuMkfnM

— Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel (@minebocek) January 28, 2021

Debugging can be frustrating for our first time #RStats students... but maybe it can lead to a spot on Debugging Bingo! DeBug-o? DeBingo?

Here's a copy if you want to include the common errors you see in your class!https://t.co/mI3g2QfvR2 pic.twitter.com/kyOCO3jjzL

— Dr. Ji Son (@cogscimom) January 27, 2021