R Weekly 2025-W09 nhyris, tisthemachinelearner, Forks

24 Feb 2025

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

Highlight

• nhyris - The minimal framework for transform R shiny application into standalone

• tisthemachinelearner: A Lightweight interface to scikit-learn with 2 classes, Classifier and Regressor (in Python and R)

• The Dynamic Relationship of Forks with their Upstream Repository

Insights

• Why we forked nixpkgs

• Rcpp now used by 3000 CRAN packages!

• The Dynamic Relationship of Forks with their Upstream Repository

R in Academia

• Win a Battle in the Game of Risk

Resources

• nhyris - The minimal framework for transform R shiny application into standalone

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {GitAI} 0.1.0: Extracts Knowledge from ‘Git’ Repositories

• {codelist} 0.1.0: Working with Code Lists

• {netknitr} 0.2.1: Knit Network Map for any Dataset

• {aftables} 1.0.2: Create Spreadsheet Publications Following Best Practice

• {musicXML} 1.0.1: Data Sonification using ‘musicXML’

Updated Packages

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• RcppDE 0.1.8 on CRAN: Maintenance

• {summarytools} 1.1.0: Tools to Quickly and Neatly Summarize Data - diffify

• {duckdb} 1.2.0: DBI Package for the DuckDB Database Management System - diffify

• {cpp11armadillo} 0.4.4: An ‘Armadillo’ Interface - diffify

• {parseLatex} 0.3.0: Parse ‘LaTeX’ Code - diffify

• {flint} 0.0.2: Fast Library for Number Theory - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Collaborating Across Pharma: Open Source Highlights from the PHUSE US Connect 2024 Keynote

Tutorials

• tisthemachinelearner: A Lightweight interface to scikit-learn with 2 classes, Classifier and Regressor (in Python and R)

• Burn Notice

• Happy Valentine’s Day

• How to Replace Values in Data Frame Based on Lookup Table in R

• 3MW (Host Quarto Projects on Azure)

• 5 Levels of Data Wrangling Every R User Must Master

• Creating a Finder Smart Folder of your RStudio Project files to enable super fast project launching

• Creating R, Python, Stata, and Julia tutorial worksheets (with and without solutions) using Quarto

• Creating effectively multi-engine Quarto documents using Quarto’s embed shortcode

• A First Look at TimeGPT using nixtlar

• How to use a histogram as a legend in {ggplot2}

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• Shiny in Production 2025: Call for Abstracts

• Government Advances in Statistical Programming (GASP) Conference 2025: Call for Abstracts

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

Grants & Funding

• Discover posit::conf as an Opportunity Scholar

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