R Weekly 2022-W17 CSV, GLMM, NSE

25 Apr 2022

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This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• 6 Lessons I learned from teaching R to non-programmers

• Loading a large, messy csv using data.table fread with cli tools

• Bayesian analyses made easy: GLMMs in R package brms

• Not so standard evaluations - Getting a better understanding of the tidyeval framework

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast episode 75

Insights

• Where for (loop) ARt Thou? A loop by any other name…

• Five Minute Shiny: Skeleton Loading Screen

• Getting started with Python using R and reticulate

• RObservations #30: Fixing R’s “messy string concatenation” with a special function

• Loading a large, messy csv using data.table fread with cli tools

• Play & Analyse Wordle Games

• 6 Lessons I learned from teaching R to non-programmers

• Not so standard evaluations - Getting a better understanding of the tidyeval framework

• rOpenSci News Digest, April 2022

• Editorial Challenges and Solutions in Software Peer Review

• R torch for statistics (not just machine learning)

• Bayesian analyses made easy: GLMMs in R package brms

• Iterating over the rows of a data.frame with purrr – Part 2

• How to create your own functions in R - Putting the FUN in functions!

• Linking R and Python to retrieve financial data and plot a candlestick

• MLDataR - Real-world Datasets for Machine Learning Applications

R in Organizations

• Successfully Putting Shiny in Production

Resources

• Cash Rate Scraper

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {ivs} 0.1.0

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {designer} 0.0.0.9000: ‘Shiny’ application UI drag-and-drop helper.

Updated Packages

• {seasonal} 1.9: Accessing composite output
• {matrixStats} 0.62.0: Functions that Apply to Rows and Columns of Matrices (and to Vectors)
• New features in {overviewR}
• parallelly 1.31.1: Better at Inferring Number of CPU Cores with Cgroups and Linux Containers
• {parallelly} 1.31.1: Enhancing the ‘parallel’ Package
• {future} 1.25.0: Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone
• {lambdr} 1.2.0: Create a Runtime for Serving Containerised R Functions on AWS Lambda.
• {ftExtra} 0.4.0: Extensions for ‘Flextable’.
• {ggtrace} 0.5.1: Programmatically explore, debug, and manipulate ggplot internals

Tutorials

• nlmixr: Docked and loaded - getting nlmixr up and running with Docker

• Dealing with flaky GitHub Actions

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Tidy Survey Analysis in R: Workshop Series: April 15th, April 22nd, April 29th

• Big Data Belfast: May 25th

• UseR! (Online): June 20th-23rd

• Rstudio::Conf: July 25th-28th

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• RStudio Community Monthly Events Roundup - April 2022

Grants & Funding

• R Consortium ISC Call for Proposals looking to provide grants for technical projects that will have a significant impact on the R Community. Deadline 2022-05-01

• R Consortium New R User Groups, Conferences, and Training Program. Deadline 2022-09-30

Datasets

Jobs

• Data Analyst (Part-time): Upfront

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

It's a wrap! I enjoyed a lot curating for @WeAreRLadies this week covering different topics. You may have noticed, but I highlighted some #rstats pkgs made in 🇦🇺 so you can see wonderful works in this land of 🦘🐨🪃 -- I may be biased, we're a great bunch & worth the visit 💼😁 https://t.co/LPj1HSovN3 pic.twitter.com/SyrckDFvhN

— Emi Tanaka (田中愛美) 💉💉💉 (@statsgen) April 23, 2022

Got 3D and music working for #rstats and #raylib!

Up next: keyboard and mouse interactivity. pic.twitter.com/GuveB0HSwX

— Jeroen Janssens (@jeroenhjanssens) April 20, 2022

I couldn't resist getting in on the fun, updated for R >= 4.1, created using {gt}! h/t @skyetetra #rstats #tidyverse #magrittr #alignmentchart

Repo here: https://t.co/gjGWLKYYG5 pic.twitter.com/1Ez6eQKkGd

— Isabella Velásquez (@ivelasq3) June 15, 2021