R Weekly 2023-W25 slice(), columns, Bayes

19 Jun 2023

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This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• Row relational operations with slice()

• Merging columns together and fixing up column labels in {gt} 0.9.0

• Bayes Lived Here (Probably)

Insights

• Step By Step: recreating a volcano plot in R
• Bayesian structural equation model tutorial
• My Computer Can Read!

• Row relational operations with slice()

• Simpler drawing of Pacific choropleth maps by @ellis2013nz

• R and OOP anti-patterns
• Automating End-to-End Cypress Tests in Rhino: A Guide to Seamless UI Testing for Shiny Apps
• Mastering the Power of R’s diff() Function: A Programmer’s Guide
• Introduction to Linear Regression in R: Analyzing the mtcars Dataset with lm()
• Pulling a formula from a recipe object
• Merging columns together and fixing up column labels in {gt} 0.9.0

• Simplifying Model Formulas with the R Function ‘reformulate()’
• Understanding the file.info() Function in R: Listing Files by Date
• How to Write Conditional Statements in R: Four Methods
• Easy and secure database access with a custom R6 package

R in the Real World

• Bayes Lived Here (Probably)

R in Organizations

• R Consortium Funding for R User Groups! Highlighting R-Ladies São Paulo

R Users

• Use of R for Meta-Research in Zürich

• rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Cheryl Isabella Lim and Mauro Lepore

Resources

• Demystifying Item Response Theory (3/4): Improving Estimation through Partial Pooling

New Packages

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CRAN

• safetensors 0.1.0
• {safetensors} 0.1.0: Safetensors File Format
• {fakemake} 1.11.0: Mock the Unix Make Utility
• {cleanr} 1.4.0: Helps You to Code Cleaner
• {reslr} 0.1.1: Modelling Relative Sea Level Data
• {pivotea} 1.0.0: Create Pivot Table Easily
• {funpca} 9.0: Functional Principal Component Analysis
• {csalert} 2023.6.17: Alerts from Public Health Surveillance Data
• {CIfinder} 1.0.0: Estimate the Confidence Intervals for Predictive Values
• {read.dbc} 1.0.6: Read Data Stored in DBC (Compressed DBF) Files
• {ggaligner} 0.1: Visualizing Sequence Alignment by Generating Publication-Ready Plots
• {boxly} 0.1.0: Interactive Box Plot
• {ergmito} 0.3-1: Exponential Random Graph Models for Small Networks
• {document} 4.0.0: Run ‘roxygen2’ on (Chunks of) Single Code Files
• {vvtableau} 0.0.1: R Interface for ‘Tableau’ Services
• {vvcanvas} 0.0.1: ‘Canvas’ LMS API Integration
• {rasciidoc} 4.1.0: Create Reports Using R and ‘asciidoc’
• {disclosuR} 0.0.1.0: Text Conversion from Nexis Uni PDFs to R Data Frames
• {TrumpetPlots} 0.0.1.1: Visualization of Genetic Association Studies
• {risks} 0.4.2: Estimate Risk Ratios and Risk Differences using Regression
• {piglet} 1.0.0: Program for Inferring Ig Allele Similarity Clusters and Genotypes
• {msentropy} 0.1.2: Spectral Entropy for Mass Spectrometry Data
• {gps.track} 1.0.0: GPS Track Point Information Extractor
• {GeneScape} 1.0: Simulation of Single Cell RNA-Seq Data with Complex Structure
• {aion} 1.0.0: Archaeological Time Series
• {pcutils} 0.1.0: Some Useful Functions for Statistics and Visualization
• {hdflex} 0.1.0: High-Dimensional Aggregate Density Forecasts
• {tdata} 0.2.0.0: Prepare Your Time-Series Data for Further Analysis
• {pgenlibr} 0.3.5: PLINK 2 Binary (.pgen) Reader
• {morestopwords} 0.2.0: All Stop Words in One Place
• {singleRcapture} 0.2.0: Single-Source Capture-Recapture Models
• {mlexperiments} 0.0.2: Machine Learning Experiments

Updated Packages

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• sanitizers 0.1.1 on CRAN: Updated and Expanded
• {sanitizers} 0.1.1: C/C++ Source Code to Trigger Address and Undefined Behaviour
• {rdwd} 1.7.1: Select and Download Climate Data from ‘DWD’ (German Weather Service) - diffify
• {ezplot} 0.7.8: Functions for Common Chart Types - diffify
• {ggPMX} 1.2.10: ‘ggplot2’ Based Tool to Facilitate Diagnostic Plots for NLME Models - diffify
• {echarts4r} 0.4.5: Create Interactive Graphs with ‘Echarts JavaScript’ Version 5 - diffify
• {datawizard} 0.8.0: Easy Data Wrangling and Statistical Transformations - diffify
• {octopus} 0.3.0: A Database Management Tool - diffify
• {logrx} 0.2.2: A Logging Utility Focus on Clinical Trial Programming Workflows - diffify
• {PaRe} 0.1.10: A Way to Perform Code Review or QA on Other Packages - diffify
• {duckdb} 0.8.1: DBI Package for the DuckDB Database Management System - diffify
• {sen2r} 1.5.5: Find, Download and Process Sentinel-2 Data - diffify
• {testthat} 3.1.9: Unit Testing for R - diffify
• {bs4Dash} 2.3.0: A ‘Bootstrap 4’ Version of ‘shinydashboard’ - diffify
• {tarchetypes} 0.7.7: Archetypes for Targets - diffify Tool - diffify
• {sportyR} 2.2.1: Plot Scaled ‘ggplot’ Representations of Sports Playing Surfaces - diffify
• {rotl} 3.1.0: Interface to the ‘Open Tree of Life’ API - diffify
• {pharmr} 0.96.0: Interface to the ‘Pharmpy’ ‘Pharmacometrics’ Library - diffify
• {usedthese} 0.3.3: Summarises Package & Function Usage - diffify
• {arrow} 12.0.1: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’ - diffify
• {vctrs} 0.6.3: Vector Helpers - diffify
• {StanHeaders} 2.26.27: C++ Header Files for Stan - diffify
• {animint2} 2023.6.11: Animated Interactive Grammar of Graphics - diffify
• {pkgcache} 2.1.1: Cache ‘CRAN’-Like Metadata and R Packages - diffify
• {pkgbuild} 1.4.1: Find Tools Needed to Build R Packages - diffify
• {multcomp} 1.4-24: Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models - diffify
• {gprofiler2} 0.2.2: Interface to the ‘g:Profiler’ Toolset - diffify
• {and} 0.1.4: Construct Natural-Language Lists with Internationalization - diffify
• {iai} 1.10.0: Interface to ‘Interpretable AI’ Modules - diffify
• {texor} 1.0.3: Converting ‘LaTeX’ ‘R Journal’ Articles into ‘RJ-web-articles’ - diffify
• {usmap} 0.6.2: US Maps Including Alaska and Hawaii - diffify
• {rayshader} 0.35.7: Create Maps and Visualize Data in 2D and 3D - diffify
• {R6causal} 0.8.0: R6 Class for Structural Causal Models - diffify
• {politeness} 0.9.0: Detecting Politeness Features in Text - diffify
• {httptest} 4.2.1: A Test Environment for HTTP Requests - diffify
• {admiralonco} 0.4.0: Oncology Extension Package for ADaM in ‘R’ Asset Library - diffify
• {admiralophtha} 0.2.0: ADaM in R Asset Library - Ophthalmology - diffify
• {googledrive} 2.1.1: An Interface to Google Drive - diffify Sanitizers - diffify
• {ggeffects} 1.2.3: Create Tidy Data Frames of Marginal Effects for ‘ggplot’ from Model Outputs - diffify
• {googlesheets4} 1.1.1: Access Google Sheets using the Sheets API V4 - diffify
• {gargle} 1.5.0: Utilities for Working with Google APIs - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

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Tutorials

• Power, Part III: The Rule of 3.64 for Statistical Power

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

• ‘Advanced Shiny Development’ the hands-on workshop - June 21, 2023

• Mapping and Spatial Analysis with the 2020 Decennial Census - June 22, 2023

• Building reproducible analytical pipelines in R workshop - June 29, 2023

• New York R Conference - July 13-14, 2023

• posit::conf(2023) (formerly rstudio::conf) - September 17-20, 2023

• Learnings and Reflection from Case Studies: What is Next for the R Validation Hub?

• Introduction to Supervised Text Classification in R workshop

• Introduction to Propensity Score Analysis with R workshop

• ‘Bring a Shiny App to Production’ the hands-on workshop

• ‘Advanced Shiny Development’ the hands-on workshop

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