R Weekly 2022-W14 Exemplar, chronicler, ggbraid

04 Apr 2022

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

Highlight

• Exemplar: a prototype R package for data validation

• {chronicler} 0.1: Implementation of the logger monad in R.

• {ggbraid} 0.1.0: Braid two lines and a ribbon in ggplot2.

Insights

• 4 ways to use colors in ggplot more efficiently

• R Package Install Troubleshooting

• February 2022: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• Sylhet R User Group in Bangladesh Hopes to Get Back on Track with Physical Events

• Greatly Revised Edition of Tidyverse Skeptic

R in the Real World

• Scraping Used Boats: How to find the perfect sailing yacht

• Using R to detect the pressure wave from the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption in personal weather station data

• Interactive maps of Hastings Half Marathon

• Information Dependency: A visual analysis of my Google Search history

• Random Manipulation of a Random SmugMug Image: GitHub Actions, ImageMagick, rtweet, blogdown, Hugo, and more!

R in Organizations

• rOpenSci News Digest, March 2022

• API’s and parameterized reports: How to access the SimFin API for financial reporting

• A Config File to Save Them: A Workflow to Use Microsoft Sharepoint and R

R in Academia

• The R Developer Community Does Have a Strong Software Engineering Culture: Maëlle Salmon, Karthik Ram. The R Developer Community Does Have a Strong Software Engineering Culture. The R Journal, 13(2):18-21, December 2021.

• We Need Trustworthy R Packages: William Michael Landau. We Need Trustworthy R Packages. The R Journal, 13(2):15-17, December 2021.

Resources

• R in Visual Studio Code - New R in VS Code topic on VS Code website

• R for Beginners

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {timbr} 0.1.0: Forest Data Frames.

• {hudr} 1.0.0: Providing Data from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

• {formatters} 0.2.0: ASCII Formatting for Values and Tables.

• {re2} 0.1.2: R Interface to Google RE2 (C++) Regular Expression Library.

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {parlscot} 0.0.0.9000: Fetch the Scottish Parliamentary Spoken Record.

• {ggbraid} 0.1.0: Braid two lines and a ribbon in ggplot2.

• {chronicler} 0.1: Implementation of the logger monad in R.

• {yfr} 0.0.1: Downloads and Organizes Financial Data from Yahoo Finance.

Updated Packages

• {mirai} 0.2.0 Minimalist async evaluation framework for R.

• {readxl} 1.4.0: Read Excel Files.

• {reactablefmtr} 2.0.0: Streamlined Table Styling and Formatting for Reactable.

• {glitter} 0.1.0: Domain-specific language (DSL) for SPARQL.

• {mathpix} 0.5.0: Support for the ‘Mathpix’ API (Image to ‘LaTeX’).

• {dodgr} 0.2.13: Distances on Directed Graphs.

• {ggfun} 0.0.6: Miscellaneous Functions for ‘ggplot2’.

• {igraph} 1.3.0: Network Analysis and Visualization.

• {vctrs} 0.4.0: Vector helpers.

• {regtools} 1.7.0: Regression and Classification Tools.

• {sinew} 0.4.0: Package Development Documentation and Namespace Management.

• {formatR} 1.12: Format R Code Automatically.

Videos and Podcasts

• Building a Wordle App with Shiny!

• Viz Buzz: Live Data Visualization (March 15)

• Poisson regression with tidymodels for package vignette counts

• TidyX Episode 98 - Sampling, Simluation, and Intro to Bayes - Sampling and Bootstraps

• TidyX Episode 99 - Sampling, Simulation, and Intro to Bayes - Basic Bayes

• 2022 Toronto Workshop on Reproducibility - Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

• [Rich Iannone

  {gt} Intendo Game Data Project Walkthrough

  RStudio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPRVzk9pvno)

Shiny Apps

• xG Race Shiny: A Shiny app that creates xG based finishing reports for soccer players using data from Understat.

• Interactive ggplots, user feedback, and a little bit of javascript magic with Shiny

• Create A “Landing Page” For Your Shiny Apps

R Internationally

• データ解析ワークフローを無駄なく、再現可能にするRパッケージ｢targets｣の紹介

• Bioconductorにおけるtidyなデータ解析の最新動向

• TokyoR #97 (March 19, 2022)

Tutorials

• {nanonext} - How it Provides a Concurrency Framework for R: True async with automatic resolution.

• Exemplar: a prototype R package for data validation

• Something to note when using the merge function in R

• Developer diary for {ggshakeR} 0.1.2 (a package for soccer analytics viz): Implementing Github Actions CI tools (codecov, lintr, etc.) into the workflow!

• What is a horizon chart?

• Restart with a Fresh Timeline: A Twitter Clean-up with R and rtweet

• Shiny Wordle Word Journey

R Project Updates

• New features in R 4.2.0

Updates from R Core

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Become an R Package Developer - Become an R Package Developer: April 4th

• R Lille - “Memory- and Computation-Efficient Statistical Tools for Big Matrices” - Florian Privé: April 7th

• TokyoR #98: April 16th

• Tidy Survey Analysis in R: Workshop Series: April 15th, April 22nd, April 29th

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• RStudio Community Monthly Events Roundup - April 2022

Datasets

Jobs

• Data Scientist — Apple Finance (R & Shiny)

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

A quick tweetorial on using #RStats to hit an API!

I used the {httr} & {jsonlite} pkgs to migrate 789 journal entries from my old platform to Notion. It's a great case study. I'm going to show you my building blocks. 🧱

You can use what I learned for any API project!

1/n https://t.co/I9aCBerQci

— Benjamin Wolfe (@BenjaminWolfe) March 30, 2022

An easy way to contribute to the #RStats ecosystem:

If you spot a CRAN or Bioconductor package without URL and BugReports links, but find they actually live on GitHub, GitLab, ..., please reach out to the maintainer and ask them to add those fields to their DESCRIPTION file

— Henrik Bengtsson (@henrikbengtsson) March 30, 2022

Woah, okay #rstats world I may have to just make the .Rmd -> .qmd switch...@quarto_dev is looking amazing.

Exhibit A: Figures and tables in the margins! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/BDEHvxhd6e

— John Paul Helveston (@JohnHelveston) March 30, 2022

I’m giving a talk about ggplot2 & its community and I'd love to include a selection of extension packages. What are your favourites? Please vote and add new options at https://t.co/Hatpc55KDu #rstats

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) March 29, 2022

Questioning coding 101. I've come to dislike "else" statements in #rstats or other code. It tends to require you to scroll up to figure out what the "if" is and then puzzle over what "else" means.

I generally prefer a default followed by an "if" or a couple of ifs. Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/D6hj58rOSo

— Zev Ross (@zevross) March 30, 2022