R Weekly 2021-44 BrailleR, The Office

01 Nov 2021

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

Highlight

• Analyzing The Office’s dialogues

• {BrailleR} 0.32.1: Improved Access for Blind Users

Insights

• Calculate Correlation between two variables in R (Pearson’s, Spearman’s rho, and Kendall’s Tau)

• A New parameterization of Correlation Matrices

• A close look at some posted trials of nimble for accelerated failure time models

• How to Start a Career as an R Shiny Developer

R in the Real World

• Analyzing The Office’s dialogues

• Train in R, run on Android: Image segmentation with torch

• Walmart’s 7-Year Nonlinear Market Trend using ‘Stealth Curves’

• Model Selection in R (AIC Vs BIC)

• How Data Scientists and Security Teams Can Effectively Work Together

• Sample size requirements for a Bayesian factorial study design

• Simple Linear Regression in r

• R Accra Talks About Expanding R in Ghana

• Synthesizing Temperature Measurements into Sound with python and R

R in Organizations

• Announcing RStudio on Amazon SageMaker

• Announcing the RStudio 2021 Communications Survey

• Why R? 2021 Conference - Remote

• RStudio at R/Pharma 2021

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• September 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• {BrailleR} 0.32.1: Improved Access for Blind Users

• {osmdata} 0.1.8: Import ‘OpenStreetMap’ Data as Simple Features or Spatial Objects

• {conText} 1.0.0: ‘a la Carte’ on Text (ConText) Embedding Regression

• {epidemia} 1.0.0: Modeling of Epidemics using Hierarchical Bayesian Models

• {shinyGovstyle} 0.0.6: Custom Gov Style Inputs for Shiny

• {heatwaveR} 0.4.6: Detect Heatwaves and Cold-Spells

• {cfbfastR} 1.6.4: Functions to Access College Football Play by Play Data

• {rStrava} 1.1.4: Access the ‘Strava’ API

• {ggokabeito} 0.1.0: Colorblind-friendly, qualitative Okabe-Ito Scales for ggplot2 and ggraph

• {tidysmd} 0.1.0: Tidy Standardized Mean Differences

• {metaconfoundr} 0.1.0: An R package for visualizing confounder control in meta-analyses

GitHub or Bitbucket

• rKenyaMemes - A package that displays different memes in RStudio

Updated Packages

• RStudio Professional Drivers 2021.10.0

• {logitr} 0.4.0: Fast estimation of multinomial (MNL) and mixed logit (MXL) models in R with “Preference” space or “Willingness-to-pay” (WTP) space utility parameterizations.

• {spsurvey} 5.0.0: spsurvey provides tools for a design-based approach to statistical inference, with a focus on spatial data

• {ff} 4.0.5: Memory-Efficient Storage of Large Data on Disk and Fast Access Functions

• {td} 0.0.5: Access to the ‘twelvedata’ Financial Data API

• {log4r} 0.4.1: A Fast and Lightweight Logging System for R, Based on ‘log4j’

• {arrow} 6.0.0.2: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’

• {sfarrow} 0.4.1: Read/Write Simple Feature Objects (‘sf’) with ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’

• {uuid} 1.0-2: Tools for Generating and Handling of UUIDs
• {usethis} 2.1.3: Automate Package and Project Setup

• {snow} 0.4-4: Simple Network of Workstations

• {cli} 3.1.0: Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces

• {blaster} 1.0.4: Native R Implementation of an Efficient BLAST-Like Algorithm

• {backports} 1.3.0: Reimplementations of Functions Introduced Since R-3.0.0

• {ggfortify} 0.4.13: Data Visualization Tools for Statistical Analysis Results

• {Rmpi} 0.6-9.2: Interface (Wrapper) to MPI (Message-Passing Interface)

• {fastai} 2.1.0: Interface to ‘fastai’

• {RcppQuantuccia} 0.0.5: R Bindings to the Calendaring Functionality of ‘QuantLib’

Videos and Podcasts

• TidyX learns to apply tidymodels to decision trees, tuning the parameters to select the best model

Tutorials

• ggplot tips: Arranging Plots

• Clustering with easystats

• {binance} Tracking Total Account Balance

• Awesome Marker Legends in Leaflet

• Exclusive Lasso and Group Lasso using R code

• Interpretable Segmentation of Medical Free-Text Records Based on Word Embeddings

• Turn an Ordered List on an HTML Page into a Collapsible FAQ List

• R and Athena update

• R : httr in R and MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP in Excel VBA

• Dynamic Regression with ARIMA Errors: The Students on the Streets

• {binance} Dealing with Dust

• Renaming the default branch
• Analysis of Variance in R: 3 Steps

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Update from the R Contribution Working Group (RCWG) :

• At the October meeting Lluís Revilla presented an analysis of R bug reports filed on bugzilla. The results, including many visualizations, are available at https://llrs.github.io/bugzilla_viz/bugRzilla_review.html and https://llrs.github.io/bugzilla_viz/
• We discussed the possibility of holding a bug barbecue, possibly associated with a conference, to get people together to work on fixing open bugs.

• We now have a calendar of events

  See the minutes for full details and the RCWG repo README for information on how to get involved. Our next meeting will be in early December (exact date TBD – see the event calendar).

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• November 2-4: R/Pharma Conference 2021

• November 8: Data Journalism in Latin America Conference

• November 13: R-Ladies Nairobi Anniversay Social

• November 18th: NIMBLE tutorial

• November 24th: Shiny Workshop

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

A population density map of long, slinky Chile. Took a bit of time to find an angle I like.#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/ulU36V34tw

— flotsam (@researchremora) October 23, 2021

When it’s time to go home but your code isn’t done running. #RStats pic.twitter.com/cuhlQ8mKFF

— Matt Cheng (@MLCheng3) October 24, 2021