R Weekly 2022-W50 Analyzing Twitter Archive, Shiny app to FDA, Rock Paper Scissors

12 Dec 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

• Read and Visualize your Twitter Archive

• UPDATE: Successful R-Based Package Submission with Shiny Component to FDA

• How to score Rock Paper Scissors

Insights

• ChatGPT can Create Datasets, Program in R… and when it makes an Error it can Fix that too!

• I’m an R user: Quarto or R Markdown?

R in the Real World

• World Cup National Anthems, Emotions & Audio Features

• The effect of Childhood Education on Wealth: Modeling with Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART)

R in Organizations

• Regaining Momentum with In-Person Meetups

R in Academia

• Just How Good Is ChatGPT in Data Science?

Resources

• Please Avoid detectCores() in your R Packages

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• tidyclust is on CRAN

• {reservr} 0.0.1: Fit Distributions and Neural Networks to Censored and Truncated Data

• {adpss} 0.1.2: Design and Analysis of Locally or Globally Efficient Adaptive Designs

• {shinyDatetimePickers} 1.0.0: Some Datetime Pickers for ‘Shiny’

• {NPCox} 1.1: Nonparametric and Semiparametric Proportional Hazards Model

• {export} 0.3.0: Streamlined Export of Graphs and Data Tables

• {DependencyReviewer} 1.0.0: Tool Suite to Investigate Other Packages

• {r2social} 1.0: App Inclusion of Social Sharing and Connect Buttons

• {dafishr} 1.0.0: Download, Wrangle, and Analyse Vessel Monitoring System Data

• {lterpalettefinder} 1.0.0: Extract Color Palettes from Photos and Pick Official LTER Palettes

• {bayesSurv} 3.6: Bayesian Survival Regression with Flexible Error and Random Effects Distributions

• {HTT} 0.1.1: Hypothesis Testing Tree

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {PSAWR}: R package to interact with the Pushift.io API.

• {podindexr}: Access the Podcast Index API from R .

Updated Packages

• {makepipe} 0.2.1: Pipeline Tools Inspired by ‘GNU Make’

• Bug in newly-released version 0.13.0 affecting MCMC for models with predictive nodes

• stringr 1.5.0

• {vimp} 2.3.1: Perform Inference on Algorithm-Agnostic Variable Importance - diffify

• {fake} 1.3.0: Flexible Data Simulation Using the Multivariate Normal Distribution - diffify

• {rsleep} 1.0.5: Analysis of Sleep Data - diffify

• {argparse} 2.2.1: Command Line Optional and Positional Argument Parser - diffify

• {rvg} 0.3.0: R Graphics Devices for ‘Office’ Vector Graphics Output - diffify

• {clinicalsignificance} 1.2.0: Determine the Clinical Significance in Clinical Trials - diffify

• {rsample} 1.1.1: General Resampling Infrastructure - diffify

• {terrainr} 0.7.2: Landscape Visualizations in R and ‘Unity’ - diffify

• {metacore} 0.1.1: A Centralized Metadata Object Focus on Clinical Trial Data Programming Workflows - diffify

• {gtsummary} 1.6.3: Presentation-Ready Data Summary and Analytic Result Tables - diffify

• {roughnet} 1.0.1: Visualize Networks using ‘roughjs’ - diffify

• {ggsurvfit} 0.2.1: Flexible Time-to-Event Figures - diffify

• {admiral} 0.9.0: ADaM in R Asset Library - diffify

• {ggpp} 0.5.0: Grammar Extensions to ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {asciicast} 2.3.0: Create ‘Ascii’ Screen Casts from R Scripts - diffify

• {genesysr} 1.0.1: Genesys PGR Client - diffify

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Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• BioTech Challenges - Robert Gentleman (R/Pharma 2022 Keynote)

• Shiny in Production: Recordings

• ShinyProxy 2.6.1 One-Click Application

• Alaska challenged my preconceived notions of storing subset data - Jacqueline Nolis (normconf 2022)

Shiny Apps

• UPDATE: Successful R-Based Package Submission with Shiny Component to FDA

R Internationally

• Gestion De GitLab Automatisee Avec {gitlabr}

Tutorials

• How to use natural and base 10 log scales in {ggplot2}

• How to score Rock Paper Scissors

• Read and Visualize your Twitter Archive

• How to Save ggplot2 Plots in a targets Workflow?

• Select colours from an image in R with {eyedroppeR}

• How to Run R Remotely

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

• Creating One Unified Calendar of all Data Science Events in the Netherlands

Jobs

• Data Scientist / Research Software Engineer - The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at Berkeley

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Quotes of the Week

PeloShiny 🚴‍♀️

Did I take my obsession too far? Nah, no such thing... pic.twitter.com/TEYsIVvzmm

— Tanya Shapiro (@tanya_shapiro) December 8, 2022