R Weekly 2024-W33 Snakes & Ladders, Tables, Deutschland Tour

12 Aug 2024

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

Highlight

• Snakes and ladders by @ellis2013nz

• Everything new that’s in {gt} 0.11.0

• Deutschland Tour 2024

Insights

• Auto XGBoost, Auto LightGBM, Auto CatBoost, Auto GradientBoosting

• Explanatory Data Analysis: Black Monday Crash

• Snakes and ladders by @ellis2013nz

• Mastering Character Counting in R: Base R, stringr, and stringi
• How to Check if a String Contains Specific Characters in R: A Comprehensive Guide with Base R, string & stringi
• Checking If a Workbook is Open Using VBA and Executing from R
• Converting Text to Uppercase with toupper() in R

• Systematic Sampleing in R with Base R

• Everything new that’s in {gt} 0.11.0

• 3MW (Creating tables with {gt})

• R tidymodels: A tidyverse Like Ecosystem for Efficient Machine Learning in R

• Unveiling Bottlenecks: A Guide to Profiling R and R Shiny Code

• Building a Bunch of Quarto Extensions for Presentations

• Deutschland Tour 2024

• Tableau in R for $0 (Introducing GWalkR)

• Shiny in Production 2024: Full speaker lineup

• CopenhagenR, the 2024 spring season

New Packages

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CRAN

CRAN submission will be offline from Aug 1, 2024 to Aug 16, 2024 (CRAN team vacation and maintenance work)

Updated Packages

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Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• useR! 2024 Keynote - Keep R Weird

Tutorials

• Multistart nonlinear least squares fitting with {gslnls}

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Roche’s first end-to-end R journey to submission

• R/Pharma APAC track

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

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