R Weekly 2024-W26 MotherDuck, sculpting the moon, nanoparquet

24 Jun 2024

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

Highlight

• Joining the flock from R: working with data on MotherDuck

• Sculpting the Moon in R: Subdivision Surfaces and Displacement Mapping

• nanoparquet 0.3.0

Insights

• Ignoring the IID assumption isn’t a great idea

• Creating Email Threads

• Digits Dilemma

• Constructing HTML with functions

R in the Real World

• The evolution of squad compositions at UEFA European Championships

R in Academia

• Mind the Gap: Using R/exams to Ease the Transition into STEM Studies

• Ordinal State Transition Models as a Unifying Risk Prediction Framework

Resources

• rOpenSci News Digest, June 2024

• Data Cleaning with R Master Class is Live

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {shinyLottie} 1.0.0: Seamlessly Integrate ‘Lottie’ Animations into ‘shiny’ Applications

• {tinyplot} 0.1.0: Lightweight Extension of the Base R Graphics System

• {rush} 0.1.0: Rapid Parallel and Distributed Computing

• {beastt} 0.0.1: Bayesian Evaluation, Analysis, and Simulation Software Tools for Trials

• {clrng} 0.0.3: Parallel Random Number Generation on GPU

• {redistverse} 0.1.0: Easily Install and Load Redistricting Software

• {bonsaiforest} 0.1.0: Shrinkage Based Forest Plots

• {priorsense} 1.0.0: Prior Diagnostics and Sensitivity Analysis

GitHub or Bitbucket

• brackets - A simple library to display tournament brackets

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• What’s new in {PrettyCols} 1.1.0?

• nanotime 0.3.9 on CRAN: Bugfix

• {alone} v0.4 is now available

• nanoparquet 0.3.0

• {cli} 3.6.3: Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces - diffify

• {imgrec} 0.1.4: An Interface for Image Recognition - diffify

• {gasanalyzer} 0.4.1: Import, Recompute and Analyze Data from Portable Gas Analyzers - diffify

• {vital} 1.1.0: Tidy Analysis Tools for Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data - diffify

• {ami} 0.1.1: Checks for Various Computing Environments - diffify

• {vetr} 0.2.18: Trust, but Verify - diffify

• {SIAtools} 0.1.1: ‘ShinyItemAnalysis’ Modules Development Toolkit - diffify

• {streamConnect} 0.0-6: Connecting Stream Mining Components Using Sockets and Web Services - diffify

• {admiralonco} 1.1.0: Oncology Extension Package for ADaM in ‘R’ Asset Library - diffify

• {patientProfilesVis} 2.0.9: Visualization of Patient Profiles - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• New York R Conference 2024 Videos

Shiny Apps

• Future urban climates - What will cities feel like in 60 years?

• Overlay mosaic crochet design tool

R Internationally

• Bridging the Digital Divide: Umar Isah Adam on Expanding R Access for Kano, Nigeria Students

Tutorials

• Vetiver: Model Deployment

• Practical Examples with healthyR.ts

• Extracting Data from Another Workbook Using VBA and Executing It from R

• How to Add Leading Zeros to Numbers in R

• 3MW (Sharing data across modules)

• Race Charts in R: How to Visualize and Compare Change Over Time with gganimate

• Joining the flock from R: working with data on MotherDuck

• Sculpting the Moon in R: Subdivision Surfaces and Displacement Mapping

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

• Meta-Analysis in R workshop, July 11th 18:00-20:00 CEST

• Academic and Personal Website Creation: A Quarto Tutorial workshop

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