R Weekly 2024-W42 Nested Tests, ShinyChat, Post Summaries

14 Oct 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

• Nested unit tests with testthat

• shinychat: Chat UI component for Shiny for R

• Creating post summary with AI from Hugging Face

Insights

• Postprocessing is coming to tidymodels

R in the Real World

• Exploratory Data Analysis: Will PCE Data Push Bitcoin?

R in Academia

• Can ChatGPT help construct non-trivial statistical models? An example with Bayesian “random” splines

• Calculating an LOOCV MSE by hand

New Packages

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CRAN

• microinverterdata release 0.1.0

• {data.table.threads} 1.0.0: Analyze Multi-Threading Performance for ‘data.table’ Functions

• {AdverseEvents} 0.0.1: ‘shiny’ Application for Adverse Event Analysis of ‘OnCore’ Data

• {openrouteservice} 0.5.3: An ‘openrouteservice’ API Client

• {tidyllm} 0.1.0: Tidy Integration of Large Language Models

• {genular} 1.0.0: ‘Genular’ Database API

• {autometric} 0.0.5: Background Resource Logging

• {opendataformat} 1.3.0: Reading and Writing Open Data Format Files

• {spheredata} 0.1.0: Students’ Performance Dataset in Physics Education Research (SPHERE)

• {usdatasets} 0.1.0: A Comprehensive Collection of U.S. Datasets

GitHub or Bitbucket

• shinychat: Chat UI component for Shiny for R

• hexsession: Create a tile of logos for loaded packages

Updated Packages

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• {mirai} 1.3.0: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R - diffify

• {nanonext} 1.3.0: R binding for NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen) - diffify

• {secretbase} 1.0.3: Cryptographic Hash, Extendable-Output and Base64 Functions.

• {gtfsio} 1.2.0: Read and Write General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Files - diffify

• {tfrmtbuilder} 0.1.0: ‘shiny’ App Companion to the ‘tfrmt’ Package - diffify

• {crew} 0.10.0: A Distributed Worker Launcher Framework - diffify

• {kiwisR} 0.2.4: A Wrapper for Querying KISTERS ‘WISKI’ Databases via the ‘KiWIS’ API - diffify

• {crypto2} 2.0.3: Download Crypto Currency Data from ‘CoinMarketCap’ without ‘API’ - diffify

• {pagedown} 0.21: Paginate the HTML Output of R Markdown with CSS for Print - diffify

• {ieeeround} 0.2-2: Functions to Set and Get the IEEE Rounding Mode - diffify

• {random.cdisc.data} 0.3.16: Create Random ADaM Datasets - diffify

• {nixtlar} 0.6.1: A Software Development Kit for ‘Nixtla’’s ‘TimeGPT’ - diffify

• {officer} 0.6.7: Manipulation of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Documents - diffify

• {chevron} 0.2.7: Standard TLGs for Clinical Trials Reporting - diffify

• {SqlRender} 1.19.0: Rendering Parameterized SQL and Translation to Dialects - diffify

• {webdav} 0.1.1: A Simple Interface for Interacting with ‘WebDAV’ Servers - diffify

• {eyelinkReader} 1.0.2: Import Gaze Data for EyeLink Eye Tracker - diffify

• {multiverse} 0.6.2: Create ‘multiverse analysis’ in R - diffify

• {exampletestr} 1.7.3: Help for Writing Unit Tests Based on Function Examples - diffify

• {xportr} 0.4.1: Utilities to Output CDISC SDTM/ADaM XPT Files - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Shiny Apps

• A Guide to Validating R (Shiny) Applications in Pharma

Tutorials

• EDA Reimagined in R: GWalkR + DuckDB for Lightning-Fast Visualizations

• Introducing: the POLYGON FULL

• How to Combine Two Data Frames in R with Different Columns Using Base R, dplyr, and data.table

• Creating post summary with AI from Hugging Face

• Nested unit tests with testthat

• The easiest way to capture code output for tests

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Standardising R Projects with the ProjectTemplate package workshop

• 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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