R Weekly 2020-14

Release Date: 2020-04-06

This week’s release was curated by Eric Nantz, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

Insights

• R Journal Volume 11/2

• Using R to tap into the genius & Spotify API to discern trends in BTS’s new album and visualise it using the ‘ggplot2’ & ‘highcharter’ packages

COVID-19

• It’s fun to look at the Y A C M (Yet Another COVID Model)

• COVID-19 shiny / plotly dashboard

• COVID-19 decease animation map

• Can unbalanced randomization improve power?

• Contagiousness of COVID-19 Part I: Improvements of Mathematical Fitting (Guest Post)

• COVID-19 in Belgium

• Coronavirus : spatially smoothed decease in France

R in the Real World

• “Flank Attacks Visualisation” Using StatsBomb Open Data

• AutoML Frameworks in R & Python

• Updates to R GUIs: BlueSky, jamovi, JASP, & RKWard

R in Organizations

• Close Encounters of the R Kind

R in Academia

• Screenager: screening times at bioRxiv

Resources

• Obtain & wrangle OpenAQ data with R: ropenaq and beyond

• Y-Conditionally Regularized Neural Nets

• Everything you should know about WinBuilder

New Packages

• ggpattern: pattern & image fills for ggplot geoms

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {simhelpers 0.1.0}: Helper package to assist in running simulation studies

• {cratography 2.4.0}

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {ggcute}: A collection of cute things to use with ggplot2.

• {flagon}: A package of just flag images in PNG and SVG format

• Introducing ‘optout’ - A package for optimizing graphics output

Updated Packages

• RcppSimdJson 0.0.4: Even Faster Upstream!

• RQuantLib 0.4.12: Small QuantLib 1.18 update

• foreach 1.5.0 now available on CRAN

Videos and Podcasts

• Introductory videos for Explanatory Model Analysis with R

• Plotting anything with ggplot2 workshop part 2

R Internationally

• [Japanese] データフレームの変数に日本語ラベルを付けたいとき

Tutorials

• How to efficiently calculate pairwise overlaps of many sets: An example of progressively optimizing the speed of a function

• Five Minute Football Trivia - Trans-Europe Express

• Bootstrap resampling with #TidyTuesday beer production data

• Visualizing decision tree partition and decision boundaries

• What is a dgCMatrix object made of? (sparse matrix format in R)

• A simple way to show stack trace on error in R

• R Tip: How To Look Up Matrix Values Quickly

• B is for bind_rows

• C is for coalesce

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

🔔Why yes, I did use {R6} OOP in #rstats to build an Automatic Bell Dispenser from #AnimalCrossing and then blogged about it: https://t.co/QftO2Z3auw pic.twitter.com/y0qbzIJpMS

— Matt Dray (@mattdray) April 4, 2020

You know you’ve spent too much time using Rmarkdown when your new lockdown hobby is ‘knitting’ Turns out I'm not a natural at either🤦‍♀️#rstats #phdchat #lockdown pic.twitter.com/D3q5IWUH7n

— Rosie Williams (@RosieSWilliams1) March 31, 2020