R Weekly 2024-W39 patchwork, gguidance, prime numbers

23 Sep 2024

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

Highlight

• patchwork 1.3.0

• Prime numbers as sums of three squares. by @ellis2013nz

• {gguidance}: Extended guide options for ‘ggplot2’

Insights

• Deposits In The Wild

• Ease renv::restore() by updating your repository to Posit Public Package Manager

R in the Real World

• 3MW (Dealing With Shitty Text Data)

• Introducing Shiny Assistant - You Can Now Build Shiny Applications with GPT and GenerativeAI

R in Organizations

• Create a free Llama 3.1 405B-powered chatbot on an R package’s GitHub repo in <1 min

• Free Boba Tea and Technical R Topics Lure Young Learners to New Brunei R User Group

R in Academia

• Extended-support beta regression for [0,1] responses

Resources

• 5 Books added to Big Book of R

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {readMDTable} 0.1.1: Read Markdown Tables into Tibbles

• {ggtangle} 0.0.2: Draw Network with Data

• {mvcor} 1.0: Correlation Coefficients for Multivariate Data

• {ggalign} 0.0.3: Align Multiple ‘ggplot’ Objects

• {gammi} 0.1: Generalized Additive Mixed Model Interface

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {gguidance}: Extended guide options for ‘ggplot2’

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {osmapiR} 0.2.1: Interface to ‘OpenStreetMap API’ - diffify

• {rhino} 1.10.1: A Framework for Enterprise Shiny Applications - diffify

• {Rblpapi} 0.3.15: R Interface to ‘Bloomberg’ - diffify

• {V8} 5.0.1: Embedded JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine for R - diffify

• {pdftools} 3.4.1: Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents - diffify

• {openssl} 2.2.2: Toolkit for Encryption, Signatures and Certificates Based on OpenSSL - diffify

• {magick} 2.8.5: Advanced Graphics and Image-Processing in R - diffify

• {jsonlite} 1.8.9: A Simple and Robust JSON Parser and Generator for R - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Gist & Cookbook

• Exploring 2023 1-year ACS data (Kyle Walker)

Tutorials

• patchwork 1.3.0

• Prime numbers as sums of three squares. by @ellis2013nz

• Improving Shiny app interactivity and performance with ggiraph

• Wrangling filenames into variables

• Stepwise selection of variables in regression is Evil

• Mastering Data Transformation in R with pivot_longer and pivot_wider

• Unveiling ‘RandomWalker’: Your Gateway to Tidyverse-Compatible Random Walks

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• October 17 - Analyzing Time Series at Scale with Cluster Analysis in R workshop

• October 3 - Probabilistic Network Inference and Analysis in R and Python 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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rtistry

For biodiversity month, I made this #dataviz of animal observations added to the Atlas of Living Australia in 2024! 🌏 🐦 Perching birds (songbirds, finches, magpies) are truly #1 🥇 & for good reason: They represent > half of all bird species globally! code: github.com/AtlasOfLivin... #rstats 📊🧪

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— Dax Kellie (@daxkellie.bsky.social) September 18, 2024 at 12:29 AM

Quotes of the Week

R users learning about data wrangling in Python #rstats pic.twitter.com/PQ5k5iwV7i

— Lukas Jung (@lukasjung_hd) September 20, 2024

Every damn time... #rstats

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— Mattan S. Ben-Shachar 🎗️🇮🇱🇺🇦 (@mattansb.bsky.social) September 20, 2024 at 2:39 AM