R Weekly 2022-W18 Tables Gallery, Shiny Conference, Future of R-Markdown

02 May 2022

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

Highlight

• RStudio Community Table Gallery

• shinytest2, Rhino R Shiny framework top news at Appsilon conference

• With Quarto coming, is R Markdown going away? No.

• Listen to R-Weekly Highlights Episode 76

Insights

• Embedding R.framework in a Qt Mac App, and Cross Compiling for Two Architectures

• Speed Up Data Analytics and Wrangling With Parquet Files

• Porting a distill blog to Quarto

R in the Real World

• shinytest2, Rhino R Shiny framework top news at Appsilon conference

R in Academia

• Using Shiny to create an academic poster

Resources

• Introduction to Regular Expressions in R

• RStudio Community Table Gallery

• With Quarto coming, is R Markdown going away? No.

• Diffify - Compare versions of R packages at a click of a button

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {conductor} 0.1.0: Create tours in Shiny apps using shepherd.js.

• {stanette} 2.21.3: R Interface to Stan

• {pipebind} 0.1.0: Flexible Binding for Complex Function Evaluation with the Base R |> Pipe

• {guix.install} 1.0.0: Install R Packages with GNU Guix

• {gson} 0.0.4: Base Class and Methods for ‘gson’ Format

• {shinytest2} 0.1.0: Testing for Shiny Applications

• {shinyGizmo} 0.1: Custom Components for Shiny Applications

• {ggtrendline} 1.0.3: Add Trendline and Confidence Interval to ‘ggplot’

• {ggRandomForests} 2.1.0: Visually Exploring Random Forests

• {torchopt} 0.1.1: Advanced Optimizers for Torch

• {listr} 0.0.2: Tools for Lists

• {baseballr} 1.2.0: Acquiring and Analyzing Baseball Data

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {shinyValidator}: Automate the audit of a Shiny app project’s quality

Updated Packages

• {quantmod} 0.4.20

• {RSQLite} 2.2.13

• {rcheology} 4.2.0.0

• {tidyfst} 1.6.5

• {shinybrms} 1.7.0

• {testthat} 3.1.4

• {xaringan} 0.24

• {multcomp} 1.4-19

• {future.apply} 1.9.0

• {datamods} 1.3.0

  Videos and Podcasts

• Lesson 1: How to interactively create 3D data visualizations in R with Rayrender

• Cleveland R User Group - Basketball Stats and R + Redis

• eCharts4r - Your New Favourite R Package for Interactive Visualization (Edmonton R User Group)

• Shiny and JavaScript - Why bother?

• TidyX 102 - Sampling, Simulation, and Intro to Bayes - Normal-Normal Conjugate

Gist & Cookbook

• Masterclass: Top Innovations in Shiny in 2022 resources (Pedro Silva)

Shiny Apps

• Rhino - Build high quality, enterprise-grade Shiny apps at speed

Tutorials

• Adding session info to blog posts

• Add {tmap} point layer with multiple symbol border colors and width

• Iterating over multiple database tables with R

• Analyze Data quickly with Esquisse

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 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

Jobs

ZevRoss New position: R/Shiny Developer - Software Engineer

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Mini #rstats tip: My colleague @ntweetor introduced me to a clever code commenting strategy that makes the @rstudio document outline more readable. He used the little "box drawing" character (├ ) for sub-steps so the nested structure is clearer in the outline. pic.twitter.com/0Ly466VNoq

— Zev Ross (@zevross) April 27, 2022

We have a deal – I have to wipe his posterior and he has to learn about posterior probabilities. pic.twitter.com/hdGpLRHYO9

— Mikhail Popov (@bearloga) April 24, 2022

Such an apt insight from @ian_moore_data in wrapping up day 1 of the @appsilon #ShinyConf2022 noting that this is one of the few web development communities where most of us are not web developers & that diversity is to be celebrated #rstats #shiny

— Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) April 27, 2022