R Weekly 2024-W48 Native Mobile Apps, Bluesky Network, Re-imagining read_csv

25 Nov 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

• You’ve Been Waiting for Native Mobile Apps with R? The Wait Is Over.

• Expand your Bluesky network with R and the atrrr package

• S7 & Options objects - reimagining readr::read_csv()

Insights

• Expand your Bluesky network with R and the atrrr package

• S7 & Options objects - reimagining readr::read_csv()

• 3MW (5 Lessons For Getting Better At Programming)

• So Your Team Needs Help with R Shiny - What are Your Options?

R in the Real World

• Spotify Wrapped: R and ggplot2 Edition - code

• You’ve Been Waiting for Native Mobile Apps with R? The Wait Is Over.

• Mapping the Vendée Globe

• Summarising Top 100 UK Climbs: Running Local Language Models with LM Studio and R

R in Organizations

• Using LLM agents to review tutorials ‘in character’ as learners

R in Academia

• A new topic model for analyzing imbalanced corpora

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {tsmarch} 1.0.0: Multivariate ARCH Models

• {roxy.shinylive} 1.0.0: A ‘roxygen2’ Extension for ‘Shinylive’

• {kendallknight} 0.4.0: Efficient Implementation of Kendall’s Correlation Coefficient Computation

• {talkr} 0.1.3: Plotting Conversation Data

• {effectplots} 0.1.0: Effect Plots

Updated Packages

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• {tinytable} 0.6.1: Simple and Configurable Tables in ‘HTML’, ‘LaTeX’, ‘Markdown’, ‘Word’, ‘PNG’, ‘PDF’, and ‘Typst’ Formats - diffify

• {ggiraph} 0.8.11: Make ‘ggplot2’ Graphics Interactive - diffify

• {duckdb} 1.1.3: DBI Package for the DuckDB Database Management System - diffify

• {tidyvpc} 1.5.2: VPC Percentiles and Prediction Intervals - diffify

• {targets} 1.9.0: Dynamic Function-Oriented ‘Make’-Like Declarative Pipelines - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Shiny Apps

• Signature.py: Award-Winning Application at the 2024 Shiny Contest

Tutorials

• Random Effects and Overdispersion

• Random effect priors, redo

• 100 Bushels of Corn, Revisited

• How to Make Data Validation Easy in R/Shiny with pointblank

• RStudio Addin 101 for beginners

• India

• Bike accidents

• How to Compare Two Columns in R: A Comprehensive Guide with Examples

• How to Compare Two Vectors in base R With Examples

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 2024-12-19 - Crafting Custom and Reproducible PDF Reports with Quarto and Typst in R 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

The EU only with letters. 🅰️🅱️©️ 🇪🇺 #30DayMapChallenge Day 19 Typography #rstats #maps

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— Ansgar Wolsing (@ansgarw.bsky.social) November 19, 2024 at 5:00 AM

💨Winds of November in Europe! My latest map shows average wind speeds and directions sweeping across the continent this month, brought to life with data from the Climate Data Store Watch this video and start making your wind maps: youtu.be/d8VZMjhBFwE #dataviz #maps #wind #rstats

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— milos makes maps (@milos-makes-maps.bsky.social) November 24, 2024 at 4:17 AM

Quotes of the Week

Tangential: I just learned about the row_number() function from @jofrhwld.bsky.social‬'s blog post. And all this time I've been using 1:n() like a total sucker. The other parts of the blog post are cool, too. #Rstats

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— Solomon Kurz (@solomonkurz.bsky.social) November 21, 2024 at 10:42 AM

Stirring the pot this morning: #rstats crowd, which do you prefer? df3 <- df1 |> left_join(df2) OR df3 <- left_join(df1, df2)

— Spencer Schien (@mrpecners.bsky.social) November 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM

First time asking for help writing #RStats code with Gemini. I guess I'll stick with ChatGPT for now....

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— jsmiths.bsky.social (@jsmiths.bsky.social) November 20, 2024 at 3:47 AM