R Weekly 2021-W37 Art, Time Tracking, Pipes

13 Sep 2021

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

Highlight

• Art, jasmines, and the water colours

• {clockify} Time Tracking from R

• The Four Pipes of magrittr

Insights

• 10 Tips And Tricks For Data Scientists Vol.11

• The Pólya Urn Model: A simple Simulation of “The Rich get Richer”

• Gold-Mining Week 1 (2021)

• The Four Pipes of magrittr

R in the Real World

• My Excel and R Journey in Financial Services

Resources

• Mistakes: You’ll make a few

• Familiarize with R-Programing Language and coding in R-Studio.

• Another 9 R books added to BigBookofR

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• RcppSMC 0.2.5 on CRAN: Build Update

• {clockify} Time Tracking from R

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Introducing {typhoid} uint16, fixedpt & numberwang implemented in vctrs

Updated Packages

• {smallfactor} update - store factors in bytes and bits rather than integers

• RSwitch 2.1.2b Bug-fix Release

• RcppSimdJson 0.1.6 on CRAN: New Upstream 1.0.0 !!

• {emayili} Rendering Plain Markdown

Videos and Podcasts

• 140 - Booboo Detection

• Video tutorial on the essentials of R for ecology cheatsheet

Gist & Cookbook

• Pre-Commit Hook for Processing README.Rmd

• Geocomputation with R: Second Edition feedback

Tutorials

• Adding text labels to ggplot2 Bar Chart

• Grouped Data Mean and Standard Deviation Calculator

• Tracking and getting download statistics for your R packages

• Dot Plots in R-Strip Charts for Small Sample Size

• So, you want to subdivide a rectangle

• Art, jasmines, and the water colours

• R Tips & Tricks: Joining Data Sets

• Skip Links

• A Bit About Checkpoint/Restart

• Little useless-useful R functions – Useless Year Progress bar with spinning cursor

• Extract punctuation from books with R

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

We have made the very difficult decision to cancel rstudio:conf(2022).

Given the resurgence of COVID-19 & inherent risks to the community & our employees, it feels irresponsible to proceed.

Please stay tuned as we consider other options.https://t.co/0k4CDzwWX2

— RStudio (@rstudio) September 9, 2021

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Quotes of the Week

Ahh, my favorite day of the week:

"Failing 📦 Test Fridays"! 🙃🤦‍♂️#rstats

— ⚽️Ryo Nakagawara📊 (@R_by_Ryo) September 10, 2021