R Weekly 2024-W34 Git Merge, Community, Quarto Templates

19 Aug 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

• Please let me merge before I start crying and other things I’ve said at the Git terminal

• A New R Community in Ahmedabad, India, focused on Clinical Research and Pharmaceutical Industries

• Designing and deploying internal Quarto templates

Insights

• Reclaiming your weekend with data contracts

• Contributing to the R Project

• Creating a sustainable open-source ecosystem: Lessons from an NSF Grant and the #rstats hashtag

• From idea to code to image: Creative data visualizations in R

• Context is King

• Tidy DataFrames but not Tibbles

R in the Real World

• Please let me merge before I start crying and other things I’ve said at the Git terminal

R in Academia

• Bayesian (nonlinear) adaptive learning

• Post-hoc Adjustment for Zero-Thresholded Linear Models

Resources

• mirai and crew: next-generation async to supercharge Plumber, Shiny, and targets

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

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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• RcppEigen 0.3.4.0.1 on CRAN: Minor Maintenance

• {VeccTMVN} 1.0.0: Multivariate Normal Probabilities using Vecchia Approximation - diffify

• {tm.plugin.mail} 0.3-0: Text Mining E-Mail Plug-in - diffify

• {overtureR} 0.2.1: Load ‘Overture’ Datasets as ‘dbplyr’ and ‘sf’-Ready Data Frames - diffify

• {metajam} 0.3.1: Easily Download Data and Metadata from ‘DataONE’ - diffify

• {icosa} 0.11.1: Global Triangular and Penta-Hexagonal Grids Based on Tessellated Icosahedra - diffify

• {cba} 0.2-25: Clustering for Business Analytics - diffify

• {bimets} 4.0.2: Time Series and Econometric Modeling - diffify

• {survobj} 3.1.1: Objects to Simulate Survival Times - diffify

• {qualtRics} 3.2.1: Download ‘Qualtrics’ Survey Data - diffify

• {solvebio} 2.15.0: The Official SolveBio API Client - diffify

• {regressinator} 0.2.0: Simulate and Diagnose (Generalized) Linear Models - diffify

• {nestedcv} 0.7.10: Nested Cross-Validation with ‘glmnet’ and ‘caret’ - diffify

• {lingtypology} 1.1.18: Linguistic Typology and Mapping - diffify

• {unittest} 1.7-0: TAP-Compliant Unit Testing - diffify

• {StepReg} 1.5.2: Stepwise Regression Analysis - diffify

• {serpstatr} 0.3.0: ‘Serpstat’ API Wrapper - diffify

• {fluidsynth} 1.0.1: Read and Play Digital Music (MIDI) - diffify

• {convevol} 2.2.1: Analysis of Convergent Evolution - diffify

• {fastDummies} 1.7.4: Fast Creation of Dummy (Binary) Columns and Rows from Categorical Variables - diffify

• {SISIR} 0.2.3: Select Intervals Suited for Functional Regression - diffify

• {MethEvolSIM} 0.1.5: Simulate DNA Methylation Dynamics on Different Genomic Structures along Genealogies - diffify

• {jqr} 1.3.4: Client for ‘jq’, a ‘JSON’ Processor - diffify

• {V8} 5.0.0: Embedded JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine for R - diffify

• {proteomicsCV} 0.3.0: Calculates the Percentage CV for Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics Data - diffify

• {gpindex} 0.6.2: Generalized Price and Quantity Indexes - diffify

• {ghapps} 1.1.0: Authenticate as a ‘GitHub’ App - diffify

• {ecoreg} 0.2.5: Ecological Regression using Aggregate and Individual Data - diffify

• {poweRbal} 0.0.1.1: Phylogenetic Tree Models and the Power of Tree Shape Statistics - diffify

• {klassR} 0.2.4: Classifications and Codelists for Statistics Norway - diffify

• {insight} 0.20.3: Easy Access to Model Information for Various Model Objects - diffify

• {av} 0.9.1: Working with Audio and Video in R - diffify

• {PriceIndices} 0.2.0: Calculating Bilateral and Multilateral Price Indexes - diffify

• {incubate} 1.3.0: Parametric Time-to-Event Analysis with Variable Incubation Phases - diffify

• {AATtools} 0.0.3: Reliability and Scoring Routines for the Approach-Avoidance Task - diffify

• {rapidsplithalf} 0.3: A Fast Split-Half Reliability Algorithm - diffify

• {gasfluxes} 0.7: Greenhouse Gas Flux Calculation from Chamber Measurements - diffify

• {RcppEigen} 0.3.4.0.1: ‘Rcpp’ Integration for the ‘Eigen’ Templated Linear Algebra Library - diffify

• {nlme} 3.1-166: Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models - diffify

• {topicmodels} 0.2-17: Topic Models - diffify

• {kernlab} 0.9-33: Kernel-Based Machine Learning Lab - diffify

• {tm} 0.7-14: Text Mining Package - diffify

• {tseries} 0.10-57: Time Series Analysis and Computational Finance - diffify

• {Rpoppler} 0.1-3: PDF Tools Based on Poppler - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Shiny Apps

• NORC Live Crime Tracker

• Best Practices for Building Blazing-Fast Shiny Apps

R Internationally

• A New R Community in Ahmedabad, India, focused on Clinical Research and Pharmaceutical Industries

Tutorials

• Use R to prompt a local LLM with ollamar

• Report Design in R: Small tweaks that make a big difference

• Designing and deploying internal Quarto templates

• Your Life in Weeks

• Mastering grepl with Multiple Patterns in Base R

• Mastering Matrix Concatenation in R: A Guide to rbind() and cbind()

• 3MW (Creating interactive tables with {reactable})

• Opening an Excel Workbook with VBA and Calling it from R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Getting creative with ggplot2 workshop

• 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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