R Weekly 2023-W09 ggiraph, forester, Excel vs R

27 Feb 2023

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

Highlight

• Creating interactive visualizations with {ggiraph} (with or without Shiny)

• forester: what makes the package special?

• Why should I use R: The Excel R Data Wrangling comparison: Part 1

Insights

• forester: what makes the package special?

• Why should I use R: The Excel R Data Wrangling comparison: Part 1

R in the Real World

• rOpenSci Champions Program Kick off

• Forecasting Disney Stock Prices as the Latest Earnings Beat Estimates

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• xts_0.13.0 on CRAN

• RcppArmadillo 0.12.0.1.0 on CRAN: New Upstream, New Features

• simstudy 0.6.0 released: more flexible correlation patterns

• dtplyr 1.3.0

GitHub or Bitbucket

• ShinyFriendlyCaptcha 0.0.1 : provide GDPR compliant captcha to Shiny apps

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Shiny Apps

• NYED Data Explorer Shows 15 Years of Charter School Success

Tutorials

• Creating interactive visualizations with {ggiraph} (with or without Shiny)

• Decision Tree Modelling for Cost Effectiveness Analysis in R

• Convert Inline Footnotes to Regular Footnotes in Markdown

• P-value bowling

• Sandwiches and aggregation

• Calibrate and Plot a Time Series with {healthyR.ts}

• Save space in faceted plots

• Repaying Tom Nook with {S7}

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Updates from the R Contribution Working Group (RCWG):

• Announcing R Project Sprint 2023. Application deadline Friday 10 March.
• Join the new R Contributors Meetup to stay up-to-date on events for existing/aspiring R contributors.
• Follow us on our new Mastodon account @[email protected].
• Thanks to the 17 translators that contributed to the recent big patch of message transations, including many that participated in the LatinR translation hackathon.

Vist the RCWG repo to find the minutes for further details on these and other topics we discussed, and see the repo README for information on how to get involved. Our next meeting will be Friday, February 18, 2022, 15:00-16:00 UTC.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• February Training Update

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• March 15-17: ShinyConf 2023

• SatRdays London 2023

Event after that:

• Shiny in Production 2023: Workshops

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼