R Weekly 2022-W13

28 Mar 2022

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

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Highlight

• Understanding the native R pipe |>

• pkgcheck now available as a GitHub action!

Insights

• Future Improvements During 2021

• Age-Period-Cohort Analysis with APCtools

• News from knitr v1.35 to v1.37: Alternative Syntax for Chunk Options, and Some New Engines

• Using databases with Shiny

• ggplot-tips: Learning by Thieving

• useR! information dashboard

• Are anime titles getting longer?

• Frustration-One-Year-With-R: An extremely long review of R.

• RMarkdown is great

• Murcia R Users Group (UMUR) in Spain Didn’t Let the Pandemic Break its Momentum

• Empowering the R community in Arab-Speaking Countries

• Understanding text size and resolution in ggplot2

• Checking the inputs of your R functions

• Coding style, coding etiquette

• A Journey to gghdr

• Safeguards and Backups for GitHub Organizations

• Searching and browsing the R universe

• Challenges in Package Management

• How to Win the RStudio Shiny Contest

R in the Real World

• The most popular Animal Crossing villagers

• Starting 2022 Off With A Fairly Complex {ggplot2} Recreation Plot

• J.League Soccer 2021 Season Review!

• rockr: Twitter best album polls

• Your workout route (in three dimensions!)

• Inverness street maps

R in Academia

• An anthology of experimental designs by Emi Tanaka

• terrainr: An R package for creating immersive virtual environments

Resources

• Showcasing the janitor package.

• Handbook of Regression Modeling in People Analytics by Keith McNulty.

• A simple R script for extracting tabular data from Oryx excellent post detailing materiel lost by all sides in the - Russian invasion of Ukraine

• R Markdown Lesser-Known Tips & Tricks #2: Cleaning Up Your Code

• Three Videos to Supercharge Your R Skills

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {nanonext} 0.1.0: R binding for NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen), a successor to ZeroMQ

• APCtools 1.0.1

• rasterpic: Create Spatial Rasters from Plain Images.

• {itscalledsoccer} 0.1.0: American Soccer Analysis API Client.

GitHub or Bitbucket

• APCtools 1.0.1

• {ggsvg} 0.1.2

• {unifir} 0.1.0: A Unifying API for Working with Unity in R

Updated Packages

CRAN

• parallelly 1.30.0 - Enhancing the ‘parallel’ Package

• progressr 0.10.0 - An Inclusive, Unifying API for Progress Updates

Videos and Podcasts

• Making Beautiful Tables with {gt}

• File naming and folder structure - R project management series (Part II)

• R for Excel Users - First Steps

• Professional Financial Reports with {rmarkdown}

• Intro to functional data analysis

Shiny Apps

• Visualizing letter frequencies on different keyboard layouts

• Colorize a ggplot Voronoi interactively

• Your Most Loved Tweet From 2021 (Or your last 5000 tweets)

R Internationally

• zipangu v0.3.0をCRANにリリースしました

• مقدمة عن مجتمع عرب آر

Tutorials

• Making the {survey} package hundreds of times faster using {Rcpp}

• A couple of visualizations from ggforce

• Report Ready PDF tables with rmarkdown, knitr, kableExtra, and LaTeX

• A package of Machine Learning datasets has arrived for R – MLDataR

• Introducing {wordle} - a package for helping solve Wordle puzzles

• Automatic differentiation in R with Stan Math

• How to create PowerPoint slides from R

• Impress with {keypress}

• [Understanding the native R pipe

  >](https://ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/understanding-the-r-pipe/)

• Identifying R Functions & Packages Used in GitHub Repos

• Capture errors, warnings and messages

• Impress with {keypress}

• Solving the ‘preserving the sum after rounding’ problem for a soccer waffle viz

• {tvthemes 1.3.0} is on CRAN: ‘Steven Universe’-themed color palettes for ggplot2!

• pkgcheck now available as a GitHub action!

• Tips for building a Twitter bot with R and Github Actions

• Identifying R Functions & Packages Used in GitHub Repos

• Pre-processing layers in keras: What they are and how to use them

• Managing bioinformatics pipelines with R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Update from the R Contribution Working Group (RCWG):

• The R Contribution Site has moved to https://contributor.r-project.org/.
• Our Twitter account is now active: https://twitter.com/R_Contributors.
• Our repos are now part of the R-Devel GitHub organization, bringing together community resources related to the development of R.
• We are planning a series of Collaboration Campfires for newcomers to learn more about contributing to R and to work collaboratively on activities.

Vist the RCWG repo to find the minutes for further details on these and other topics we discussed, and see the repo README for information on how to get involved. Our next meeting will be Friday, February 18, 2022, 15:00-16:00 UTC.

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

• Some R Conferences for 2022

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

#Rstats: Copy data from Excel and paste it into R as a dataframe or tibble using datapasta:

install.packages("datapasta") -> set a useful keyboard paste shortcut#phdchat pic.twitter.com/jS7kwndF1q

— Dr. Guy Prochilo 🏳️‍🌈 (@GuyProchilo) March 22, 2022

How it feels every time my advisor tells an undergrad to come to me for help making figures in R because I'm the "best in the lab" #RStats pic.twitter.com/iOoYjFstN8

— Katie O'Reilly (@DrKatfish) March 21, 2022

Do you have a slide deck on writing functions the tidyverse style (ie passing arguments to dplyr functions that accept bare inputs and writing functions that accept bare inputs) you're willing to share? @jessicalavs and I are presenting on the topic soon 🕺#rstats #tidyverse

— Daniel Sjoberg (@statistishdan) January 4, 2022