R Weekly 2021-W39 Accessibility, Github Actions and WeAreRLadies!

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

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R in the Real World

R in Academia

Resources

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

  • {nominatimlite} 0.1.0: Lite interface for getting data from OSM service Nominatim. Extract coordinates from addresses, find places near a set of coordinates, search for amenities and return spatial objects on ‘sf’ format.

  • {d3po} 0.3.2: Fast and Beautiful Interactive Visualization for ‘Markdown’ and ‘Shiny’

  • {scRNAstat} 0.1.1: A Pipeline to Process Single Cell RNAseq Data

  • {net4pg} 0.1.0: Handle Ambiguity of Protein Identifications from Shotgun Proteomics

GitHub or Bitbucket

Updated Packages

  • {climaemet} 1.0.0: Tools to download the climatic data of the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET) directly from R using their API.

  • {ichimoku} 1.2.1: Visualization and Tools for Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Strategies. Updates: create cloud charts from any price series, pair with oscillators, save financial data directly from live charts powered by the OANDA fxTrade API.

  • {pathroutr}: R package for routing tracks around barrier polygons.

  • {emoji} 0.2.0: Contains data about emojis with relevant metadata, and functions to work with emojis when they are in strings.

  • {hockeyR} 0.1.0: Collect and Clean Hockey Stats.

  • {aRtsy} 0.1.2: Generative Art with ‘ggplot2’

  • {phytools} 0.7-90: Phylogenetic Tools for Comparative Biology (and Other Things)

  • {maps} 3.4.0: Draw Geographical Maps

Videos and Podcasts

Gist & Cookbook

Submarine Cable Map Dataviz

Shiny Apps

R Internationally

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