R Weekly 2021-W23 Reusing chunk options, VSCode-R 2021, hello {gggrid}

07 Jun 2021

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

Highlight

• Reusing Code Chunks and Chunk Options with knitr

• R in 2021 with VSCode

• ‘gggrid’ it’s g-g-great! Accessing ‘grid’ from ‘ggplot2’

Insights

• Reusing Code Chunks and Chunk Options with knitr

• R in 2021 with VSCode

• ‘gggrid’ it’s g-g-great! Accessing ‘grid’ from ‘ggplot2’

• Cartography firefly in R

• Cluster Meaning-Cluster or area sampling in a nutshell

• Building your own knitr compile farm on your Raspberry Pi with {plumber}

• Skewness in Statistics-Calculate Skewness in R

• Shiny Inception: JavaScript in Rendered Markdown

• on approximations of Φ and Φ⁻¹

• Paired test for dichotomous data-McNemar’s test in R

• Understanding Public-Key Cryptography by Mixing Colours!

• Don’t Know Which LaTeX Package(s) to Install When Getting a LaTeX Error?

• Self-contained xaringan Slides

• Sample size determination in the context of Bayesian analysis

• A comparison of terra and stars packages

• Bayesian analysis of the ‘Facial Feedback Hypothesis’

• blogdown: Knit on Save, or Save on Knit?

R in the Real World

• NBA playoffs: Visualizing win percentage by seeding

• UEFA EURO 2020 prediction competition

• Liverpool 20-21 EPL Performance

• Using {sf} to calculate catchment areas

R in Academia

• van der Loo, M. (2021). Monitoring Data in R with the lumberjack Package. Journal of Statistical Software, 98(1), 1 - 13. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v098.i01

Resources

• xaringan gallery, a growing collection of examples and custom themes.

• R for Public Health

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {sparseGAM} 1.0: Sparse Generalized Additive Models

• {additive} 0.0.1: Bindings for Generalized Additive Models (GAM)

• {icecream} 0.1.1: Print Debugging Made Sweeter

• {valse} 0.1-0: Variable Selection with Mixture of Models

• {flipbookr} 0.1.0: Parses Code, Creates Partial Code Builds, Delivers Code Movie

• {sitsfeats} 0.0.1: Satellite Image Time Series Features

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {ggtrack}

• Introducing {gluestick} - a simple, base R, single function, glue-like string interpolator

• About {golem} 0.3.1

• {gggrid}: Accessing ‘grid’ from ‘ggplot2’

Updated Packages

• Version 0.11.1 of {NIMBLE} released

• {FSA}: Replace residPlot() with ggplot

• {inline} 0.3.19: Another Update

• {td} 0.0.3 on CRAN: Maintenance release

Videos and Podcasts

• Automating business processes with R (Video) - Frans van Dunné (Cleveland R User Group)

• Episode 61 of TidyX Data Cleaning - Regular expressions

Shiny Apps

• Recreating a Shiny App with Flask

R Internationally

• Cartografía firefly (Spanish)

• ggplot2 で沖縄をずらして日本地図を描きたい (Japanese)

Tutorials

• Create machine learning models: An R version

• An ELT from scratch with {googleCloudRunner}, Docker, Google Cloud Platform and R

• Create a cv using {datadrivencv} by Nicholas Strayer

• Mind the Gap – Safely Incorporating Deep Learning Models into the Actuarial Toolkit

• Simulated Neural Network with Bootstrapping Time Series Data

• summarize in r, Data Summarization In R

• Custom interactive sunbursts with ggplot in R

• ivreg: Two-stage least-squares regression with diagnostics

• Conducting a Bayesian analysis with ‘rstanarm’ and publishing with ‘distill’

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

• R Lille Meetup: “Reproducible Computation at Scale in R with {targets}”

Jobs

• Job vacancies at Jumping Rivers!

Call for Participation

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Rtistry

I have revisited lighthouse data from @openstreetmap that I used last year in the #30DayMapChallenge, and now I have given it a touch of firefly cartographic style. #rstats #rspatial

Here more details in my recent blog post https://t.co/ntRCbzxeA0 pic.twitter.com/soIUBQCbrm

— Dominic Royé (@dr_xeo) June 5, 2021

Late submission for last week's #tidytuesday. Used my favorite tt of 2020 as inspiration (@CedScherer https://t.co/QmQDat2794) to make a Rainbow Road plot of cumulative days holding Mario Kart 64 records by players.

code: https://t.co/cBlW7TbrxU#dataviz #rstats pic.twitter.com/A2s8sdqNja

— data_warz (@TWarczak) June 3, 2021

Quotes of the Week

Introducing #RecreationThursday! Every two weeks, we'll be sharing a piece of art for #dataviz folks to recreate/remix and get those creative juices flowing🎨

🧵(thread for more info!) pic.twitter.com/2ztqRoiZYT

— Natalie O'Shea (@_natalie_oshea) June 3, 2021

This already been done? #tidyverse #rstats pic.twitter.com/P8CbDQICtl

— Tyson Barrett ✊ (@healthandstats) June 1, 2021

Where chess pieces go to die: I analyzed 15000 chess games to see where each individual piece tend to be captured. #dataviz #RStats pic.twitter.com/qtzUbN6eZg

— Anders Sundell (@sundellviz) May 30, 2021