R Weekly 2021-W00

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

Highlight

Insights

• News from knitr v1.35 to v1.37: Alternative Syntax for Chunk Options, and Some New Engines

• Using databases with Shiny

R in the Real World

• The most popular Animal Crossing villagers

• Starting 2022 Off With A Fairly Complex {ggplot2} Recreation Plot

• J.League Soccer 2021 Season Review!

• rockr: Twitter best album polls

• Your workout route (in three dimensions!)

R in Organizations

R in Academia

Resources

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {ggsvg} 0.1.2

Updated Packages

CRAN

• parallelly 1.30.0 - Enhancing the ‘parallel’ Package

• progressr 0.10.0 - An Inclusive, Unifying API for Progress Updates

Videos and Podcasts

Gist & Cookbook

Shiny Apps

• Visualizing letter frequencies on different keyboard layouts

• Colorize a ggplot Voronoi interactively

• Your Most Loved Tweet From 2021 (Or your last 5000 tweets)

R Internationally

Tutorials

• Making the {survey} package hundreds of times faster using {Rcpp}

• A couple of visualizations from ggforce

• Setting up PostgreSQL and PostGIS to Run Spatial Queries in R

• A package of Machine Learning datasets has arrived for R – MLDataR

• Introducing {wordle} - a package for helping solve Wordle puzzles

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

Datasets

Jobs

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

What's the most useful function you've ever created in #rstats?

— David Keyes (@dgkeyes) December 28, 2021

Do you have a slide deck on writing functions the tidyverse style (ie passing arguments to dplyr functions that accept bare inputs and writing functions that accept bare inputs) you're willing to share? @jessicalavs and I are presenting on the topic soon 🕺#rstats #tidyverse

— Daniel Sjoberg (@statistishdan) January 4, 2022

Who has made a good non-Shiny website with #rstats to communicate results? I know there are a ton of good personal websites made with R, but I'm looking for ones that communicate results of a study etc.

— David Keyes (@dgkeyes) December 27, 2021