R Weekly 2023-W14 API Framework Examples, Reading Remote Files

03 Apr 2023

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

Highlight

• Hello world examples with 10 different R web API frameworks

• Reading Remote Data Files

Insights

• Balancing Classes in Classification Problems, and Why It’s Generally a Bad Idea

• R in Finance and Accounting Sector in Korea

• Descriptive statistics: comparisons in JavaScript, Python, SQL, R, and Excel

• February 2023: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• Uniting R Professionals Across Disciplines for Data-Driven Insights in Maine

• Meeting the Stars of the R-Universe: Researching Our Brain with the Magic of the R-Universe

R in the Real World

• The big world of CRAN

Resources

• 6 new books added to Big Book of R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {deps} 0.1.2: Dependency Management with ‘roxygen’-Style Comments

• {debkeepr} 0.1.1: An R package for the analysis of non-decimal currencies

GitHub

• {lenght} 0.1.0: Allow Misspellings of Length Function.

• {pcolor} 0.1.0: Pick Color Freely in Rstudio

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {ellipse} 0.4.5: Functions for Drawing Ellipses and Ellipse-Like Confidence Regions

• {landscapemetrics} 2.0.0

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Fast spatial analysis and kriging on grids - YEGRUG Meetup, February 23, 2023

• Normalizing Z-Scores, pitfalls and generalizing - TidyX Episode 139

• GitHub Copilot for R - First impressions

Gist & Cookbook

• Hello world examples with 10 different R web API frameworks

Tutorials

• Explaining research code using reproducibility tools

• Reading Remote Data Files

• Plot Prediction Interval in R using ggplot2

• New CRAN requirements for packages with C and C++

• How much weight do you need to lose to drop an inch off the waist?

• Little useless-useful R functions – Transforming dataframe to markdown table

• One neighbour

• Sum Across Columns in R – dplyr & base

• REDCapDM: a package to access and manage REDCap data

• Implementing rotation equivariance: Group-equivariant CNN from scratch

• Using WebR + Pyodide To Fill In The (Temporary) Package Gaps

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• Take the State of Shiny 2023 survey!

• posit::conf() deadlines extended!

• Seeking community endorsement for an upgrade to ‘Big Book of R’

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

• April 13: Generalized Additive Models in R Workshop

• April 13: {activityinfo} package updates webinar

• April 20: Dataviz with R and ggplot: Using colour and annotations for effective story telling workshop

• April 22: SatRdays London 2023

• June 5-9: R/Medicine 2023

• June 21-23: Rencontres R Avignon, France \@rencontres_R

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

• Assault Deaths in the OECD 1960-2020

• Who speaks in The Office?

• Life Expectancy and Health Spending in the OECD

• Spike map of 2022 population of Brazil

Quotes of the Week

Another reason to love the new #RStudio update: previews of the data alongside the suggest tab completions! 🤩

Making today's task of automating text with #rstats easier by showing me what's inside the tibble as I seek to turn it onto sentences. pic.twitter.com/NQVvkNnPnm

— Cara Thompson | @[email protected] (@cararthompson) March 31, 2023

Opened RStudio to add some numbers together today #rstats pic.twitter.com/wTtGJsyQyS

— Spencer Schien (@MrPecners) March 30, 2023

Do you love data science and want to cry? Do you want to see the UGLIEST #rstats plot to ever exist? Look no further because my students crushed their good plot/bad plot assignment and really took making the worst plots possible to heart. #ggplot🧵⬇️

— Dr. Nyssa Silbiger (@NSilbiger) April 1, 2023