R Weekly 2024-W37, chart axes, custom roxygen2 tag, FAIR

10 Sep 2024

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

Highlight

• Five ways to improve your chart axes

• Create and use a custom roxygen2 tag

• Making your blog FAIR

Insights

• PLANES: Plausibility Analysis of Epidemiological Signals with the rplanes package

• R-Ladies Bariloche in Argentina: Fostering a Different Approach to  Leadership

• Gender and sexuality in Australian surveys and census by @ellis2013nz

R in Academia

• An IV study design to estimate an effect size when randomization is not ethical

New Packages

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CRAN

• {rplanes} 0.1.0: Plausibility Analysis of Epidemiological Signals

• {mmints} 0.1.0: Workflows for Building Web Applications

• {hdar} 1.0.0: ‘REST’ API Client for Accessing Data on ‘WEkEO HDA V2’

• {ggvolcano} 0.1.3: Publication-Ready Volcano Plots

• {geoidep} 0.1.0: Download Geographic Data on Various Topics Provided and Managed by the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Peru

• {flowmapblue} 0.0.2: Flow Map Rendering

• {easybio} 1.0: Comprehensive Single-Cell Annotation and Transcriptomic Analysis Toolkit

• {SuperCell} 1.0: Simplification of scRNA-Seq Data by Merging Together Similar Cells

• {pandemics} 0.1.0: Monitoring a Developing Pandemic with Available Data

• {mlmc} 2.0.2: Multi-Level Monte Carlo

• {GeRnika} 1.0.0: Simulation, Visualization and Comparison of Tumor Evolution Data

• {fastpng} 0.1.5: Read and Write PNG Files with Configurable Decoder/Encoder Options

• {g3viz} 1.2.0: Interactively Visualize Genetic Mutation Data using a Lollipop-Diagram

• {rPDBapi} 2.1: A Comprehensive Interface for Accessing the Protein Data Bank

• {wget} 0.0.2: Setting Download Method to ‘wget’

• {AOboot} 0.1.0: Bootstrapping in Different One-Way and Two-Way ANOVA

• {pooledpeaks} 1.0.5: Genetic Analysis of Pooled Samples

• {ropenmeteo} 0.1: Wrappers for ‘Open-Meteo’ API

• {rice} 0.1.1: Radiocarbon Calibration Equations

• {QuICSeedR} 0.1.2: Analyze Data for Fluorophore-Assisted Seed Amplification Assays

• {pakret} 0.1.0: Cite ‘R’ Packages on the Fly in ‘R Markdown’ and ‘Quarto’

• {GeoThinneR} 1.0.0: Simple Spatial Thinning for Ecological and Spatial Analysis Coding Skills

• {wintime} 0.1.0: Win Time Methods for Time-to-Event Data in Clinical Trials

• {TWW} 0.0.1: Growth Models Hazards Model

• {cbbinom} 0.1.0: Continuous Analog of a Beta-Binomial Distribution

Updated Packages

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{corporaexplorer} 0.9.0: A ‘Shiny’ App for Exploration of Text Collections - diffify

• {blme} 1.0-6: Bayesian Linear Mixed-Effects Models - diffify

• {kit} 0.0.19: Data Manipulation Functions Implemented in C - diffify

• {pbdZMQ} 0.3-12: Programming with Big Data – Interface to ‘ZeroMQ’ - diffify

• {salso} 0.3.41: Search Algorithms and Loss Functions for Bayesian Clustering - diffify

• {treesitter.r} 1.1.0: ‘R’ Grammar for ‘Tree-Sitter’ - diffify

• {sf} 1.0-17: Simple Features for R - diffify

• {maxstablePCA} 0.1.1: Apply a PCA Like Procedure Suited for Multivariate Extreme Value Distributions - diffify

• {MacBehaviour} 1.2.7: Behavioural Studies of Large Language Models - diffify

• {geobr} 1.9.1: Download Official Spatial Data Sets of Brazil - diffify

• {adehabitatMA} 0.3.17: Tools to Deal with Raster Maps - diffify

• {adehabitatLT} 0.3.28: Analysis of Animal Movements - diffify

• {SHELF} 1.11.0: Tools to Support the Sheffield Elicitation Framework - diffify

• {pedFamilias} 0.2.4: Import and Export ‘Familias’ Files - diffify

• {emoa} 0.5-3: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Algorithms - diffify

• {caviarpd} 0.3.13: Cluster Analysis via Random Partition Distributions - diffify

• {bigsparser} 0.7.3: Sparse Matrix Format with Data on Disk - diffify

• {AFR} 0.3.6: Toolkit for Regression Analysis of Kazakhstan Banking Sector Data - diffify

• {vivainsights} 0.5.4: Analyze and Visualize Data from ‘Microsoft Viva Insights’ - diffify

• {spatialwarnings} 3.1.0: Spatial Early Warning Signals of Ecosystem Degradation - diffify

• {polle} 1.5: Policy Learning - diffify

• {outliertree} 1.10.0: Explainable Outlier Detection Through Decision Tree Conditioning - diffify

• {NNS} 10.9.2: Nonlinear Nonparametric Statistics - diffify

• {netropy} 0.2.0: Statistical Entropy Analysis of Network Data - diffify

• {NADA2} 1.1.8: Data Analysis for Censored Environmental Data - diffify

• {DrugUtilisation} 0.7.1: Summarise Patient-Level Drug Utilisation in Data Mapped to the OMOP Common Data Model - diffify

• {rPDBapi} 2.1: A Comprehensive Interface for Accessing the Protein Data Bank - diffify

• {rgplates} 0.5.0: R Interface for the GPlates Web Service and Desktop Application - diffify

• {rts2} 0.7.6: Real-Time Disease Surveillance - diffify

• {lfproQC} 0.2.0: Quality Control for Label-Free Proteomics Expression Data - diffify

• {genekitr} 1.2.8: Gene Analysis Toolkit - diffify

• {flowmapper} 0.1.2: Draw Flows (Migration, Goods, Money, Information) on ‘ggplot2’ Plots - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

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• TidyX episode 186 : Gapminder camcorder - be kind and rewind

Tutorials

• Five ways to improve your chart axes

• Side by Side Comparison - Gleam vs R

• Use Posit tools with data in DuckDB, Databricks, and Snowflake

• Boost your shiny app with sparkling data visualizations: a deep dive into Chart.js JavaScript library

• How do you iterate a vector?

• Dr Drang and the Electoral College

• Boost your shiny app with sparkling data visualizations: a deep dive into Chart.js JavaScript library

• Create and use a custom roxygen2 tag

• Harness the Full Potential of Case-Insensitive Searches with grep() in R

• Mastering the grep() Function in R: Using OR Logic

• Making your blog FAIR

• [LAST CHANCE] Dealing With Excel’s Pivot Tables

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

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

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