R Weekly 2025-W01 Bluesky, colours in R and Azure OpenAI

13 Jan 2025

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Happy New Year! Welcome to our first issue of 2025. This week’s content was curated by Batool Almarzouq, with support from our amazing R Weekly team members and contributors. Happy reading!

Highlight

• Bluesky conversation analysis with local and frontier LLMs with R/Tidyverse.

• Working with colours in R

• Harnessing Azure OpenAI and R for Web Content Summarisation: A Practical Guide with rvest and tidyverse

Insights

• Revisiting depression incidence by county and vote for Trump by @ellis2013nz

• Bluesky conversation analysis with local and frontier LLMs with R/Tidyverse.

• Strategic Investment Analysis: Key Questions Generated by DoTadda’s Knowledge Platform

R in the Real World

• Infodemiology & Health Insights: Analyzing Trends in Back Pain using R & Google Trends data

• What region is Pittsburgh in? Unsupervised learning with spatially constrained clustering.

R in Academia

• New Paper: Towards a Generative Model of Emotion Dynamics

Resources

• Reposting Partial Pooling

• Website for tidyplots use cases, complete with data and code

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {CMHSU} 0.0.6.9: Mental Health Status, Substance Use Status and their Concurrent Status in North American Healthcare Administrative Databases

• {BerkeleyForestsAnalytics} 2.0.4: Compute and Summarize Core Forest Metrics from Field Data

• {S4DM} 0.0.1: Small Sample Size Species Distribution Modeling

• {linevis} 1.0.0: Interactive Time Series Visualizations

• {geneviewer} 0.1.10: Gene Cluster Visualizations

• {jetty} 0.1.0: Execute R in a ‘Docker’ Context

• {ColombiAPI} 0.1.0: Access Colombia’s Public Data via ‘API-Colombia’

• {collett} 0.1.0: Datasets from “Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research” by Collett

• {pacta.multi.loanbook} 0.1.1: Run ‘PACTA’ on Multiple Loan Books Easily

• {ellmer} 0.1.0: Chat with Large Language Models

• {drone} 1.0.0: Data for Data Visualisation Geometries Encyclopedia

• {tidyprompt} 0.0.1: Prompt Large Language Models and Enhance Their Functionality

• {epiparameter} 0.4.0: Classes and Helper Functions for Working with Epidemiological Parameters

• {Certara.RsNLME.ModelExecutor} 3.0.1: Execute Pharmacometric Models Using ‘shiny’

• {ritalic} 0.10.1: Interface to the ITALIC Database of Lichen Biodiversity

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {th2analytics} 0.0.1 thaink² analytics SDK forecasting as a service

• {mapmetadata} 3.0.0: Mapping from variables to concepts

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• Another season, another release. {survivoR} v2.3.5 now on CRAN

• nanotime 0.3.11 on CRAN: Polish

• inline 0.3.21: Minor Polish

• RcppGetconf 0.0.4 on CRAN: Updates

• {makepipe} 0.2.2: Pipeline Tools Inspired by ‘GNU Make’ - NEWS, - diffify

• {ggiraph} 0.8.12: Make ‘ggplot2’ Graphics Interactive - diffify

• {BioVizSeq} 1.0.1: Visualizing the Elements Within Bio-Sequences - diffify

• {cnum} 0.1.4: Chinese Numerals Processing - diffify

• {tabula} 3.2.0: Analysis and Visualization of Archaeological Count Data - diffify

• {DEPONS2R} 1.2.5: Read, Plot and Analyse Output from the DEPONS Model - diffify

• {syllogi} 1.0.4: Collection of Data Sets for Teaching Purposes - diffify

• {rgoogleads} 0.12.0: Loading Data from ‘Google Ads API’ - diffify

• {onemap} 3.2.0: Construction of Genetic Maps in Experimental Crosses - diffify

• {khroma} 1.15.0: Colour Schemes for Scientific Data Visualization - diffify

• {forestly} 0.1.2: Interactive Forest Plot - diffify

• {ruminate} 0.3.1: A Pharmacometrics Data Transformation and Analysis Tool - diffify

• {BiodiversityR} 2.17-1: Package for Community Ecology and Suitability Analysis - diffify

• {datawizard} 1.0.0: Easy Data Wrangling and Statistical Transformations - diffify

• {rix} 0.14.3: Reproducible Data Science Environments with ‘Nix’ - diffify

• {rtables} 0.6.11: Reporting Tables - diffify

• {collapse} 2.0.19: Advanced and Fast Data Transformation - diffify

• {plotthis} 0.5.0: High-Level Plotting Built Upon ‘ggplot2’ and Other Plotting Packages - diffify

• {colourvision} 2.1.0: Colour Vision Models - diffify

• {dpkg} 0.6.1: Create, Stow, and Read Data Packages - diffify

• {plotmm} 0.1.2: Tidy Tools for Visualizing Mixture Models - diffify

• {ggspectra} 0.3.15: Extensions to ‘ggplot2’ for Radiation Spectra - diffify

• {jsmodule} 1.6.1: ‘RStudio’ Addins and ‘Shiny’ Modules for Medical Research - diffify

• {jskm} 0.5.8: Kaplan-Meier Plot with ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {tidyterra} 0.6.2: ‘tidyverse’ Methods and ‘ggplot2’ Helpers for ‘terra’ Objects - diffify

• {ggbreak} 0.1.3: Set Axis Break for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

R Internationally

• Genocidio en Palestina 🍉

Tutorials

• Harnessing Azure OpenAI and R for Web Content Summarisation: A Practical Guide with rvest and tidyverse

• Setting values in R6 classes, and testing with shiny::MockShinySession

• Little useless-useful R functions – QR-Code Clock

• Little useless-useful R functions – Vanishing sentences

• Some of the more useful Tidyverse functions

• R and Python Together: Refactoring and Prompt Engineering A Previous Case Study, Using the Perplexity API

• Setting values in R6 classes, and testing with shiny::MockShinySession

• Working with colours in R

• How to Create an Empty Matrix in R: A Comprehensive Guide

• How to Create an Empty Data Frame in R: A Comprehensive Guide with Examples

• How to Remove Rows with Any Zeros in R: A Complete Guide with Examples

• How to Transpose Data Frames in R: Complete Guide with Examples

• Reflecting on the Past Year: A LinkedIn Year in Review (2024)

• Rounding Numbers in R with Examples: A Comprehensive Guide

• Comprehensive Guide to Arcsine Transformation in R with Examples

• 3MW (Adding Async Streams to Our Shiny Chat Bot)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Connect

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rtistry

Day 6 of #genuary, Make a landscape using only primitive shapes#Rstats code: https://t.co/gXP1HZ8hOW#genuary6 #genart pic.twitter.com/b5esNUjoXv

— Georgios Karamanis (@geokaramanis) January 7, 2025

Today's artwork generated with #rstats and #ggplot2: pic.twitter.com/yFney62N6L

— aRtsy package (@aRtsy_package) January 13, 2025

Quotes of the Week

Please, if you have an idea for a package, just write it and publish it on CRAN. The availability of high quality packages are one of #RStats greatest strengths, just package stuff please pic.twitter.com/dY3JhKdDUr

— Bruno Rodrigues (@[email protected]) (@brodriguesco) January 10, 2025

12 years. RIP my darling boy. pic.twitter.com/RFLpiwPqLP

— Susan Swartz (@beadmomsw) January 11, 2025

08.01.2025 📅

Today’s Quote:

“It always seems impossible until it's done.” — Nelson Mandela pic.twitter.com/UMS6Q3yCPE

— Hanwool Park (@hanwoolpark2426) January 8, 2025