R Weekly 2019-42

Release Date: 2019-10-21

Highlight

Insights

• My First R Package (Part 1)

R in the Real World

• Where are we going? A look at the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team

R in Organizations

R in Academia

Resources

• locus-pocus: A small shiny app that lets you visualise your area in 3 dimensions (webgl, VR, AR)

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• Introducing ymlthis: a toolkit for working with YAML

• {orderly 1.0.1}: A lightweight but powerful reproducible reporting framework

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

Updated Packages

• {shiny 1.4.0}

• {covr 3.3.2}

Videos and Podcasts

Gist & Cookbook

R Internationally

Tutorials

• Vignette: Google Trends with the gtrendsR package

• Formatted spreadsheets in R

• Map coloring: the color scale styles available in the tmap package

• xaringan Tip: Add A Logo to All of Your Slides

• Settlers of Catan in R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Tokyo.R #82, October 26

• Yes We Cran: A conference on R packages and their applications, December 6-8

• rOpenSci OzUnconf, December 11-13

• R @ ISSA, December 26

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

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