R Weekly 2021-W48 cffr, unit test, filebin

29 Nov 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

• How I Test cffr on (about) 2,000 Packages using GitHub Actions and R-universe

• Getting started with unit testing in R

• {filebin} Quick & Easy File Sharing

Insights

• RSS feeds of package updates in r-universe

• Biplots are everywhere: where do they come from?

• How I Test cffr on (about) 2,000 Packages using GitHub Actions and R-universe

• The design effect of a cluster randomized trial with baseline measurements

• {itdepends} on {lubridate}

• R has obscenely long function names

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• cffr: Create a CITATION.cff File for your R Package

• nanotime 0.3.4 on CRAN: Maintenance Update

• RcppArmadillo 0.10.7.3.0 on CRAN: Bugfix, New Features

• parallelly 1.29.0: New Skills and Less Communication Latency on Linux

• cusumcharter available on CRAN

• future.callr 0.7.0: A Future API for Parallel Processing using ‘callr’

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {filebin} Quick & Easy File Sharing

Videos and Podcasts

• Getting started with unit testing in R

• Predicting viewership for #TidyTuesday Doctor Who episodes

Gist & Cookbook

• R Markdown Lesser-Known Tips & Tricks #1: Working in the RStudio IDE

Shiny Apps

• RTutor: What explains the employment drop in the great recession 2007-2009?

Tutorials

• Publication-ready tables with flextable and own theme in R

• Creating your google chat R bot in under 5 minutes

• Principal Component Analysis: a brief intro for biologists

• Likelihood Ratio Test in R with Example

• How to go from R to nice tables in Microsoft Word

• I got my first package onto CRAN, and YOU CAN TOO

• How to Build Interactive Google Maps With R Shiny – A Complete Guide

• How to Scrape and Store Strava Data Using R

• Analysing Lichess Games with R

• Make grouping a first-class citizen in data quality checks

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

• Why R? Community award for Outstanding Community Leaders

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