R Weekly 2022-W19 Dungeons, Rounded Rectangles and Recipes update

09 May 2022

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

Highlight

• Simple procedural dungeons in R

• Storytelling in ggplot using rounded rectangles

• Updates for recipes extension packages

• Listen to R-Weekly Highlights Episode 77

Insights

• ML for the Lazy: Can AutoML Beat My Model?

• Are R loops really that slow?

• Comparing performances of CSV to RDS, Parquet, and Feather file formats in R

• The Success Paradox: Why even a little Bit of Luck often beats Skill

R in the Real World

• The link between Food Hygiene Ratings and Deprivation

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• RQuantLib 0.4.16 on CRAN: Small Updates

• {unifir} 0.2.0: A Unifying API for Working with Unity from R

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Introducing {eventloop} - Realtime interactive rendering in R

Updated Packages

• {fusen} v0.4 – 14 developers tips and tricks

• Updates for recipes extension packages

• terrainr 0.7.0: Landscape Visualizations in R and ‘Unity’

Videos and Podcasts

• 157 - Early Morning Vibe

• Use {janitor} to clean Excel files with R

Tutorials

• Storytelling in ggplot using rounded rectangles

• The basics of prototyping and exporting your plots in R

• Using case weights with tidymodels

• A short note on the startsWith function

• Fitting a basic Fay-Herriot model in Stan and JAGS

• A guide to modeling outcomes that have lots of zeros with Bayesian hurdle lognormal and hurdle Gaussian regression models

• Analyze your Twitter timeline with {rtweet} and {lubridate}

• Simple procedural dungeons in R

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