R Weekly 2022-W44 Data Scientists or Software Developers, Understanding Shiny, and New TidyX

31 Oct 2022

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

Highlight

• Are you Data Scientists or Software Developers?!

• Understanding ShinyApps

• TidyX Episode 121: Tell me what you want - user submitted data

Insights

• “Wait, I’m a developer?”: Reflections on developing #Rstats functions

• Diving into dependen-“sea”: How CRAN packages are interconnected

• Are you Data Scientists or Software Developers?!

• Alternatives to paired bar charts

• NBA teams Posters using R and Bash

• Discrete Fourier Transform - with torch

• Understanding ShinyApps

• Understanding the Basics of Package Writing in R

• R, its license and my take on it

• Top 5 Shiny UI Add-On Packages

• Quartaki: 6 hour introduction to Quarto

• Embed Shinylive applications in Quarto documents

• A Linux Live USB as a statistical programming dev environment

• The Most Complex Puzzle I’ve Ever Solved

• tidyselect 1.2.0

• rOpenSci News Digest, October 2022

R in the Real World

• Interesting Uses of censo2017 a Year After Publishing

• Using R in Inventory Management and Demand Forecasting

• Become a Mentor for rOpenSci Champions!

R in Organizations

• MLOps with vetiver in Python and R: Answering your questions

• RStudio at R/Pharma 2022

• rstudio::glimpse() Newsletter

• New Repositories Working Group

Resources

• How to keep yourself updated with R news

• {renv} demo (slides)

• A tour of the Apache Arrow ecosystem for the R community (slides)

• Data science & statistics artwork/illustrations (Allison Horst)

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {vivainsights} 0.1.0

• {Greymodels} 1.0: Shiny App for Grey Forecasting Model
• {simcausal} 0.5.6: Simulating Longitudinal Data with Causal Inference Applications
• {gghdr} 0.2.0: Visualisation of Highest Density Regions in ‘ggplot2’
• {galah} 1.5.0: Biodiversity Data from the Living Atlas Community
• {worrrd} 0.1.0: Generate Wordsearch and Crossword Puzzles
• {exams2learnr} 0.1-0: Interface for ‘exams’ Exercises in ‘learnr’ Tutorials
• {OpenML} 1.12: Open Machine Learning and Open Data Platform
• {RCT2} 0.0.1: Designing and Analyzing Two-Stage Randomized Experiments

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {raylibr}

• {mirai} 0.7.0: Simple and lightweight parallelism and concurrent code execution, local or distributed across the network. - diffify

• {vegawidget} 0.4.2 - diffify

• {pkgload} 1.3.1: Simulate Package Installation and Attach - diffify

• {arkhe} 1.0.0: Tools for Cleaning Rectangular Data - diffify

• {colourpicker} 1.2.0: A Colour Picker Tool for Shiny and for Selecting Colours in Plots - diffify

• {bigrquery} 1.4.1: An Interface to Google’s ‘BigQuery’ ‘API’ - diffify

• {starter} 0.1.11: Starter Kit for New Projects - diffify

• {oskeyring} 0.1.5: Raw System Credential Store Access from R - diffify

• {mlflow} 1.30.0: Interface to ‘MLflow’ - diffify

• {keyring} 1.3.1: Access the System Credential Store from R - diffify

• {rayrender} 0.28.8: Build and Raytrace 3D Scenes - diffify

• {parsedate} 1.3.1: Recognize and Parse Dates in Various Formats, Including All ISO 8601 Formats - diffify

• {tidyfst} 1.7.5: Tidy Verbs for Fast Data Manipulation - diffify

• {pedbp} 1.0.1: Pediatric Blood Pressure - diffify

• {ps} 1.7.2: List, Query, Manipulate System Processes - diffify

• {pingr} 2.0.2: Check if a Remote Computer is Up - diffify

• {pkgcache} 2.0.3: Cache ‘CRAN’-Like Metadata and R Packages - diffify

• {keypress} 1.3.0: Wait for a Key Press in a Terminal - diffify

• {asciicast} 2.2.0: Create ‘Ascii’ Screen Casts from R Scripts - diffify

• {zip} 2.2.2: Cross-Platform ‘zip’ Compression - diffify

• {pkgsearch} 3.1.2: Search and Query CRAN R Packages - diffify

• {shiny} 1.7.3: Web Application Framework for R - diffify

• {meanr} 0.1-5: Sentiment Analysis Scorer - diffify

• {tidytable} 0.9.1: Tidy Interface to ‘data.table’ - diffify

• {webfakes} 1.1.5: Fake Web Apps for HTTP Testing - diffify

• {fontawesome} 0.4.0: Easily Work with ‘Font Awesome’ Icons - diffify

• {ggdensity} 0.1.1: Interpretable Bivariate Density Visualization with ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {torch} 0.9.0: Tensors and Neural Networks with ‘GPU’ Acceleration - diffify

• {datefixR} 1.3.1: Standardize Dates in Different Formats or with Missing Data - diffify

• {rsconnect} 0.8.28: Deployment Interface for R Markdown Documents and Shiny Applications - diffify

• {openxlsx} 4.2.5.1: Read, Write and Edit xlsx Files - diffify

• {foghorn} 1.5.1: Summarize CRAN Check Results in the Terminal - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• rstudio::conf(watch_on = “YouTube”)

• TidyX Episode 121: Tell me what you want - user submitted data

• TidyX Episode 120: Working with columns in Tidyverse

R Internationally

• Hosting Malaysia’s Largest Annual R Conference

Tutorials

• Automating Dockerfile creation for Shiny apps

• Manage Dependencies with the deps R Package for Docker Containers

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• R/Pharma Conference - November 2022

• Community Monthly Events Roundup - November 2022

• Register for the Government & Public Sector R Conference

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

messed up trying to remap the colours in an image in R and produced this trippy creation #rtistry pic.twitter.com/pDB0i7qeaI

— Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 (@notazookeeper) October 17, 2022

I recently scrapped a direction I was going in for a project but I still really love a lot of the WIP outputs. So I will be sharing them anyways.#rtistry #generativeart pic.twitter.com/k6YrU6wzjw

— Ijeamaka (@ijeamaka_a) October 17, 2022

Quotes of the Week

I'm a little surprised that people expect deprecated functions to live on for so many years. If a function has told you not to use it every time for 3 years, is another two years of warnings going to make any difference? What am I missing?

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) October 19, 2022

(1/n) Since Halloween is just around the corner, let's talk about something spooky: presentations with LIVE CODING 🎃👻😱. To prepare for a 2-hour virtual workshop on package development, I came up with a system to help me stay organized.

Here's what helped⬇️

— We are R-Ladies (@WeAreRLadies) October 19, 2022

I've been running a lot of #rstats scripts lately and sometimes I have to move the scripts around, which means installing packages.

There are many options out there, but none of them fits my use case very well.

Here is what I found (a thread)

— Péter Sólymos (@psolymos) October 14, 2022