R Weekly 2021-W00

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

Highlight

• Tracking SARS-CoV-2 In England with {epidemia}

• Tagging the Scientific Abstracts with Wikidata Items

• Que haja luz: More light for torch!

Insights

• One Little Thing: Spin a Child Script via knitr::spin_child()

R in the Real World

• Tracking SARS-CoV-2 In England with {epidemia}

• R in Supply Chain Management: Meetup Q&A

• Will I get my Money back? Credit Scoring with OneR

• Omega Results and the 2021 Olympic Trials

• Using R to build predictions for UEFA Euro 2020

• Tagging the Scientific Abstracts with Wikidata Items

• Four (4) Different Ways to Calculate DCF Based ‘Equity Cash Flow (ECF)’ – Part 1 of 4

• Housing unaffordability hexmaps

• Fight the Future: Stock Forecasting with Prophet

R in Organizations

• Debunking the Myths of R vs. Python

Resources

• rstudio-themes - a collection of 211 user-made themes for RStudio, incl. direkt links and screenshots where available

• Que haja luz: More light for torch!

• Conversions between different spatial classes in R

• Server-side MathJax rendering with R?

• New R textbook for machine learning

• Principal components and penguins by @ellis2013nz

• What if the standard format to browse #rstats help was Rmd?

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

Updated Packages

• {ichimoku} 0.2.0: Visualization and Tools for Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Strategies

Videos and Podcasts

• [TidyX Episode 63

  Ellis Hughes and Patrick Ward lookaround with regex this week](https://bit.ly/TidyX_Ep63)

Tutorials

• Bubble Chart in R-ggplot & Plotly

• Funnel Chart in R-Interactive Funnel Plot

• Remove rows that contain all NA or certain columns in R?

• Extract text from pdf in R and word Detection

• Estimating a risk difference (and confidence intervals) using logistic regression

• Reading Data From Excel Files (xls,xlsx,csv) into R-Quick Guide

• Combinations using expand.grid

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

• R user or R Developer? Panel Discussion at useR!2021

• Summer Conferences!

• Exciting upcoming workshops ahead!

Datasets

Jobs

• Senior Teaching Associate in Quantitative Methods in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology

• [Research Associate

  Salt Lake Community College](https://jobs.slcc.edu/postings/49467)

• [Data Science and Research Associate

  Urban Institute](https://urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Careers/job/The-Urban-Institute-DC/Data-Science-Associate–Center-on-Nonprofits-and-Philanthropy-_R-800967)

• Michigan Fitness Foundation

• [Associate Information Management Officer

  United Nations Volunteers](https://www.unv.org/vo/PANR000244-9799)

• [Economic Data Analyst

  USAID Data Services](https://uscareers-devtechsys.icims.com/jobs/1287/economic-data-analyst%2c-usaid-data-services/job?mobile=false&width=1263&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-300&jun1offset=-240)

• [Solutions Engineer

  Rstudio](https://www.rstudio.com/about/job-posting/?gh_jid=4566477003)

• [Data Scientist

  Modern Fertility](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modernfertility/36815c80-fc6c-4912-929b-97be51187db6)

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