R Weekly 2024-W31 Oz Weather, Shiny Contest

29 Jul 2024

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

Highlight

• Let’s Talk About the Weather

• 2024 Shiny Contest

Insights

• R-Ladies Rome: Empowering Women in Data Science Through Collaboration and Innovation

• Empowering the R Community: Insights from Myles Mitchell of the Leeds Data Science Group

R in the Real World

• American Idol Episodes’ Viewership

• Global movement of Happiness ladder with Machine learning in R

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

• {weatherOz} 1.0.0: An API Client for Australian Weather and Climate Data Resources

• {precommit} 0.4.3: Pre-Commit Hooks

• {poldis} 0.1.1: Analyse Political Texts

• {tenm} 0.5.1: Temporal Ecological Niche Models

• {aka} 0.1.0: Define Aliases for R Expressions

• {Rdune} 1.1.0: Creates Color Palettes Inspired by Dune

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {ggblanket} 10.0.0: Simplify ‘ggplot2’ Visualisation - diffify

• {vcr} 1.6.0: Record ‘HTTP’ Calls to Disk - diffify

• {gtsummary} 2.0.0: Presentation-Ready Data Summary and Analytic Result Tables - diffify

• {nullabor} 0.3.12: Tools for Graphical Inference - diffify

• {cffr} 1.1.0: Generate Citation File Format (‘cff’) Metadata for R Packages - diffify

• {tidyfinance} 0.3.0: Tidy Finance Helper Functions - diffify

• {simodels} 0.1.0: Flexible Framework for Developing Spatial Interaction Models - diffify

• {tinycodet} 0.5.3: Functions to Help in your Coding Etiquette - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Independence Days with {purrr} - TidyX Episode 185

Tutorials

• Let’s Talk About the Weather

• Population age changes in the Pacific

• Bootstrap Confidence Intervals: Exports in Japan

• Exporting {gtsummary} tables to Excel.

• Creating Summary Tables in R with tidyquant and dplyr

• Llama, Llama, Oh Give Me A Sign. What’s In The Latest IDSA Guideline?

• Set temporary folder for R in Rstudio server

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• Call for Speakers - R in Pharma Conf 2024 (extended)

• 2024 Shiny Contest

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

Connect

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Quotes of the Week

George Stagg just released a new #quarto extension that allows for an embedded full feature code editor inside of Quarto slide deck! It supports both #rstats via #webr and #python via #pyodide.

Announcement: https://t.co/tjHFNl4B55

Extension:https://t.co/Q0IFUxNzZc pic.twitter.com/BMBzvnhpiw

— James Balamuta (@axiomsofxyz) July 23, 2024