R Weekly 2025-W05 Quarto revealjs, First Time Contributions

28 Jan 2025

• How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly?

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

Highlight

• Seven tips for creating Quarto revealjs presentations

• From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS

Insights

• rOpenSci 2024 Highlights

• From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS

• Remembering Friedrich “Fritz” Leisch

R in Organizations

• Shift from Myth to Risk-Based Validation: GxP Case Studies

• Lower Validation Workload and Faster Development With GxP Compliant Rstudio Environment on AWS

R in Academia

• Get Better: R for cell biologists

Resources

• CRAN R package binaries for Linux - arm64 and Alpine Linux

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {ncaavolleyballr 0.4.1} Extract Data from NCAA Women’s and Men’s Volleyball Website

• {phylospatial} 1.0.0: Spatial Phylogenetic Analysis

• {oldr} 0.2.3: An Implementation of Rapid Assessment Method for Older People

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {httr2} 1.1.0: Perform HTTP Requests and Process the Responses - diffify

• {qlcal} 0.0.14: R Bindings to the Calendaring Functionality of ‘QuantLib’ - diffify

• {sparsevctrs} 0.2.0: Sparse Vectors for Use in Data Frames - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• We want GREAT tables! - Richard Iannone & Michael Chow - Data Science Hangout

Shiny Apps

• From Code to Compliance: Validated Shiny Apps with Rhino

• Acceptance Test-Driven Development with Shiny

• How to configure your shiny app content from a remote JSON file

Tutorials

• 3MW (Turn Text Into Structured Data With R & LLMs)

• How to Remove Rows in R: A Comprehensive Guide with Examples

• Seven tips for creating Quarto revealjs presentations

• Dyson’s Algorithm: The General Case

• Just got a paper on conformal prediction REJECTED by International Journal of Forecasting despite evidence on 30,000 time series (and more). What’s going on? Part2: 1311 time series from the Tourism competition

• Guide to comparing sample and population proportions with CPS data, both classically and Bayesianly: Download CPS demographic data from IPUMS and use R and {brms} to calculate differences between sample and national proportions with Bayesian ROPE-based inference

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Updates from the R Contribution Working Group (RCWG):

• Announcing R Dev Day @ Rencontres R 2025: University of Mons, Belgium, Thursday 22 May, 09:00-17:00 CEST. Join us to work on contributions to the code, documentation and translations in base R. Free and open registration, deadline Friday 18 April.

Call for Participation

• ShinyConf 2025 Registration and Call for Proposals are open!

• Apply to be an Opportunity Scholar at posit::conf(2025)

• Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors

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

• Tabular ML in R: an overview of tidymodels in R for tabularized data workshop

Datasets

• {setariaviridis} 0.1.0: Field-Collected Data of Green Foxtail

Connect

Join the Data Science Learning Community

• tidymodels Internship for 2025