R Weekly 2022-W23 tickle package, on learning R

06 Jun 2022

• How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly?

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

Highlight

• {tickle}: a package for creating UIs in base R

• R will always be arcane to those who do not make a serious effort to learn it…

• Listen to R-Weekly Highlights Episode 81

Insights

• Locating R and R Adjacent Software and Configuration Files

• progressr 0.10.1: Plyr Now Supports Progress Updates also in Parallel

• R will always be arcane to those who do not make a serious effort to learn it…

R in Organizations

• Announcing RStudio for Microsoft Azure ML

R in Academia

• Bakersfield Data Analytics and R Users Group: Collaboration and the Need to Reach Out to Students

• My students cheated… A lot

Resources

• Try R v4.2 in your browser

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• April: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

CRAN

• {headliner} 0.0.1: Compose Sentences to Describe Comparisons

• {FossilSimShiny} 1.0.0: Shiny Application for ‘FossilSim’

• {usincometaxes} 0.4.0: Calculate Federal and State Income Taxes in the United States

• {babsim.hospital} 11.8.8: Bartz & Bartz Simulation Hospital

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {tickle} 0.1.1: a package for creating UIs in base R

Updated Packages

• {progressr} 0.10.1

• {threeBrain} 0.2.5

• {tidycensus} 1.2.2

• {targets} 0.12.1

• {cleanrmd} 0.0.8

Videos and Podcasts

• R-Ladies Freiburg (English) - Getting to know Quarto

• Measuring success of data science - Data Science Hangout - Lindsey Clark, Healthcare Bluebook

• Shiny modularization, Leaflet for R and Leaflet JS extensions

• Barret Schloerke: {shinytest2} Testing Shiny with {testthat}

Shiny Apps

• R City Views: An R package and Shiny application to render minimalistic aerial city views using data from OpenStreetMap.

Tutorials

• GitHub Actions for R developers, v2

• Announcing pins for Python

• Creating a blog with Quarto in 10 steps

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• RStudio Community Monthly Events Roundup: June 2022

• Fitting distributions in R (NHS workshop): June 8th

• New York R Conference: June 8th-10th

• 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

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

I am rebuilding my #rstats blog from the bottom up with #quarto. This will let me use quarto's cool new tricks like tabs and easy columns.

I've already spent hours using quarto's great docs to build a custom blog. If you want to do the same, let me show you what I did. pic.twitter.com/JDDz0gUoOI

— Albert Rapp (@rappa753) May 31, 2022

A recent #TidyTuesday was about voting on #Eurovision, and I did a little analysis of the voting *patterns* with widyr, a package I ❤️!!#rstats code is here:https://t.co/PWL9xYvkWe pic.twitter.com/qT1hxzoFcD

— Julia Silge (@juliasilge) June 3, 2022

I like honest people 😅 #rstats pic.twitter.com/3oCBqpofvX

— Mustafa Çavuş (@mustafa__cavus) May 24, 2022