R Weekly 2022-W45, Level Up Your Plots, GoogleSheets as a Database in R and Time-boxed Yak Shaving

07 Nov 2022

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

Highlight

• Using GoogleSheets as a Database in R— Yeay!

• Level Up Your Plots: A Code-along Workshop

• Regular, intentional, and time-boxed yak shaving

Insights

• Regular, intentional, and time-boxed yak shaving

• Adding Mastodon Social Link to Hugo & Blogdown Website Template

• Spacetime representations aren’t good—yet

R in the Real World

• Modeling the secular trend in a cluster randomized trial using very flexible models

R in Academia

• Code to replicate the empirical results from the paper “Trade models in the European Union”.

• Accompanying code for Bee Swarm Optimization Paper

• Manuscript material for the Tracking-selection paper

• Code and data for the paper “Two dynamic programming approaches for finding optimal and Nash equilibrium harvesting strategies in predator-prey systems”

• Codes for CRISPR paper

Resources

• A field guide to base R

• New chapter on regular expressions in R4DS

• Short course on Parametric Survival Analysis

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• port4me 0.5.0 - Get the Same, Personal, Free TCP Port over and over

• {vapour} 0.9.0: Access to the ‘Geospatial Data Abstraction Library’ (‘GDAL’)

• {itscalledsoccer} 0.2.1: American Soccer Analysis API Client

• {Ease} 0.1.2: Simulating Explicit Population Genetics Models

• {spatstat.model} 3.0-2: Parametric Statistical Modelling for the ‘spatstat’ Family

• {psfmi} 1.1.0: Prediction Model Pooling, Selection and Performance Evaluation Across Multiply Imputed Datasets

• {spatstat.explore} 3.0-3: Exploratory Data Analysis for the ‘spatstat’ Family

• {ggbrain} 0.8.0: Create Images of Volumetric Brain Data in NIfTI Format Using ‘ggplot2’ Syntax

• {powerjoin} 0.1.0: Extensions of ‘dplyr’ and ‘fuzzyjoin’ Join Functions

• {sMSROC} 0.1.0: Assessment of Diagnostic and Prognostic Markers

• {mockthat} 0.2.8: Function Mocking for Unit Testing

• {minsample2} 0.1.0: The Minimum Sample Size

• {jetpack} 0.5.5: A Friendly Package Manager

• {experiences} 0.1.1: Experience Research

GitHub or Bitbucket

• rtoot - Interact with the mastodon API from R

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• What’s new in santoku 0.9.0 - diffify

• future 1.29.0: Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone - diffify

• future.apply 1.10.0: Apply Function to Elements in Parallel using Futures - diffify

• posteriordb 0.4.0: A database of Bayesian posterior inference - diffify

• ggplot2 3.4.0 : Update for ggplot2, which is a system for declaratively creating graphics, based on The Grammar of Graphics - diffify

• {R2admb} 0.7.16.2: ‘ADMB’ to R Interface Functions - diffify

• {pRecipe} 0.4.2: Precipitation R Recipes - diffify

• {blogdown} 1.15: Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown - diffify

• {ergm} 4.3.1: Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for

• {atom4R} 0.3-2: Tools to Handle and Publish Metadata as ‘Atom’ XML Format - diffify

• {coda4microbiome} 0.1.2: Compositional Data Analysis for Microbiome Studies - diffify

• {plotly} 4.10.1: Create Interactive Web Graphics via ‘plotly.js’ - diffify

• {ggrepel} 0.9.2: Automatically Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels with ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {lubridate} 1.9.0: Make Dealing with Dates a Little Easier - diffify

• {gtExtras} 0.4.3: Extending ‘gt’ for Beautiful HTML Tables - diffify

• {ggprism} 1.0.4: A ‘ggplot2’ Extension Inspired by ‘GraphPad Prism’ - diffify

• {ggmap} 3.0.1: Spatial Visualization with ggplot2 - diffify

• {emoji} 15.0: Data and Function to Work with Emojis - diffify

• {bslib} 0.4.1: Custom ‘Bootstrap’ ‘Sass’ Themes for ‘shiny’ and ‘rmarkdown’ - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Binary packages on Ubuntu with r2u / YEGRUG with Dirk Eddelbuettel

• How to Web Scrape RateMyProfessors

Gist & Cookbook

• My air travel carbon footprint

R Internationally

• Intro to R and Open Science Practices for Biologists (Arabic)

Tutorials

• How to deal with annoying medium sized data inside a Shiny app

• Opening a spatial subset with {sf}

• Modeling the Extinction of Species with SVM-Kernel

• Level Up Your Plots: A Code-along Workshop

• Using GoogleSheets as a Database in R— Yeay!

• Wavelet Transform - with torch

• Extract POIs from a Suunto watch

• Placing Some Inset Images into Plots - New Zealand Sheep

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• R/Pharma Conference - November 2022

• Community Monthly Events Roundup - November 2022

• Register for the Government & Public Sector R Conference

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

First attempt at #RStats #Rtistry 🎨
A view of 🌅 post-sunset Colva Beach, Goa, India.
Any ideas on how to create the waves?#HomeIsWhereTheHeartIs pic.twitter.com/Ox1Q8F6Wpi

— Vishal Katti (@vishal_katti) November 7, 2022

Some more #Rstats flow field #generativeart #Rtistry
Technique shared here: https://t.co/z2P3lKoqMU pic.twitter.com/TqWpVkrKGb

— chris (@dickie_roper) November 6, 2022

Quotes of the Week

Nice to colaborate with @TheEconomist! Brazilian election results. #RStats pic.twitter.com/zGgm22KNDq

— Arthur Welle (@ArthurWelle) November 3, 2022

RStudio is now Posit 🎉

Find the new handle @posit_pbc and the brand new site at https://t.co/heCvKJbbFb !!

I'm really excited that we can double down on our commitment to open source - it's going to be a fun ride!#RStats #PyData #DataScience

1/5 pic.twitter.com/AKqrDoaQLe

— Tom Mock ❤️ @posit_pbc (@thomas_mock) November 2, 2022