R Weekly 2024-W36 Long input lines, Translating Quarto, Codebase lint-free forever

02 Sep 2024

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

Highlight

• Long input lines

• Translating Quarto (and other markdown files) into Any Language

• Get your codebase lint-free forever with lintr

Insights

• Get notified of failing CRAN checks

• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 12 – Nix as a polyglot build automation tool for data science

• Does my test really validate a bug fix? Check it with git cherry-pick

• Sampling without replacement with unequal probabilities by @ellis2013nz

• Ratios of indexed line charts by @ellis2013nz

• How You Should Keep Score in Pickup Basketball

• Long input lines

• Exploring the Top 5 pharmaverse Packages

• Comparing {eefAnalytics} and {lmeInfo}

R in the Real World

• News from R Submissions Working Group – Pilot 3 Successfully Reviewed by FDA

• Package & tools I learned about at posit::conf(2024)

• Our Experience at posit::conf 2024

R in Organizations

• GxP Validation in Software Development starts from the Definition of Done

• rOpenSci News Digest, August 2024

Resources

• Causal inference in R

• Models demystified : a practical guide from t-tests to deep learning, by Michael Clark & Seth Berry (with R and Python code)

• Mastodon Accounts Posting About #RStats

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

📦 Create markdown-based surveys with quarto and shiny 📦

CRAN

• {ClustMC} 0.1.1: Cluster-Based Multiple Comparisons

• {golem} 0.5.1 is now available

• {minesweeper} 1.0.0: Play Minesweeper
• {imputeMissings} 0.0.4: Impute Missing Values in a Predictive Context
• {ggreveal} 0.1.3: Reveal a ‘ggplot’ Incrementally
• {flowmapper} 0.1.1: Draw Flows (Migration, Goods, Money, Information) on ‘ggplot2’ Plots
• {mirrorselect} 0.0.3: Test CRAN/Bioconductor Mirror Speed
• {capesData} 0.0.1: Data on Scholarships in CAPES International Mobility Programs
• {osum} 0.1.0: Provide Summary Information About R Objects
• {gemini.R} 0.5.2: Interface for ‘Google Gemini’ API ‘Malaria Atlas Project’

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {ask}

• {pkgndep}

• {rvoronoi}

• {gplate}

• idiolect: a new R package for Forensic Authorship Analysis

• biorecap: an R package for summarizing bioRxiv preprints with a local LLM

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• pkgKitten 0.2.4 on CRAN: Updates

• {streetscape} 1.0.3: Collect And Investigate Street Views For Urban Science - diffify
• {salty} 0.1.1: Turn Clean Data into Messy Data - diffify
• {PRNG} 0.0.2.1.1: A Pseudo-Random Number Generator - diffify
• {rscorecard} 0.29.0: A Method to Download Department of Education College Scorecard Data - diffify
• {pkgKitten} 0.2.4: Create Simple Packages Which Do not Upset R Package Checks - diffify
• {tabxplor} 1.2.0: User-Friendly Tables with Color Helpers for Data Exploration - diffify
• {openxlsx} 4.2.7: Read, Write and Edit xlsx Files - diffify
• {chromote} 0.3.1: Headless Chrome Web Browser Interface - diffify
• {servr} 0.31: A Simple HTTP Server to Serve Static Files or Dynamic Documents - diffify
• {duckdbfs} 0.0.7: High Performance Remote File System, Database and ‘Geospatial’ Access Using ‘duckdb’ - diffify
• {robotstxt} 0.7.15: A ‘robots.txt’ Parser and ‘Webbot’/’Spider’/’Crawler’ Permissions Checker - diffify
• {tables} 0.9.31: Formula-Driven Table Generation - diffify
• {s3fs} 0.1.7: ‘Amazon Web Service S3’ File System - diffify
• {atable} 0.1.15: Create Tables for Reporting Clinical Trials - diffify
• {startupmsg} 0.9.7: Utilities for Start-Up Messages - diffify Functions - diffify
• {admiralvaccine} 0.3.0: Vaccine Extension Package for ADaM in ‘R’ Asset Library - diffify
• {contingencytables} 3.0.1: Statistical Analysis of Contingency Tables - diffify
• {sas7bdat} 0.8: sas7bdat Reverse Engineering Documentation - diffify
• {archivist} 2.3.8: Tools for Storing, Restoring and Searching for R Objects - diffify
• {ctrdata} 1.19.2: Retrieve and Analyze Clinical Trials in Public Registers - diffify
• {ggfun} 0.1.6: Miscellaneous Functions for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {BiocManager} 1.30.25: Access the Bioconductor Project Package Repository - diffify
• {frictionless} 1.2.0: Read and Write Frictionless Data Packages - diffify
• {portalr} 0.4.2: Create Useful Summaries of the Portal Data - diffify
• {f1dataR} 1.6.0: Access Formula 1 Data - diffify
• {tetRys} 1.2: Game of ‘tetRys’ - diffify
• {pmev} 0.1.2: Calculates Earned Value for a Project Schedule - diffify
• {tidypmc} 2.0: Parse Full Text XML Documents from PubMed Central - diffify
• {labelr} 0.1.8: Label Data Frames, Variables, and Values - diffify
• {data.table} 1.16.0: Extension of data.frame - diffify
• {cpp11} 0.5.0: A C++11 Interface for R’s C Interface - diffify
• {worldbank} 0.3.0: Client for World Banks’s ‘Indicators’ and ‘Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)’ APIs - diffify
• {curl} 5.2.2: A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R - diffify
• {GWalkR} 0.1.5: Interactive Exploratory Data Analysis Tool - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• How to automatically detect data changes for your Shiny Calendar app
• Shannon Pileggi @ The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium

Shiny Apps

• Shiny Contest 2024 Submissions

R Internationally

• R4SocialScience: Empowering Social Science Research with R in India

Tutorials

• How can you use the *frame functions from the package tibble?

• Translating Quarto (and other markdown files) into Any Language

• Get your codebase lint-free forever with lintr

• Mastering grep() in R: A Fun Guide to Pattern Matching and Replacement
• How to use the agrep() function in base R
• How to Use grep() for Exact Matching in Base R: A Comprehensive Guide
• Understanding Comments in C: Why They Matter and How to Use Them Effectively
• Mastering the sapply() Function in R: A Comprehensive Guide for Data Manipulation
• Joining data sets with R
• Loading Excel files with missing numbers into R

• Loading files with missing numbers

• Master Data & File Formats With R

• Introducing surveydown: an R package and platform for creating markdown-based surveys with quarto and shiny

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 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

• Upcoming Tidy Finance Webinar from R Consortium on Optimizing Portfolios using the Markowitz Model - September 4th, 2024 at 12:00 pm ET

• Announcing the 2024 Shiny Contest

Grants & Funding

• The 2024 ISC Grant Program will begin Accepting Applications Soon!

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