R Weekly 2022-W33 `across()` multiple columns, pretty ggplots, RStudio pane management tricks

15 Aug 2022

• How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly?

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

Highlight

• Using across() to create multiple columns

• Pretty ggplots with custom themes, ggtext, and ggh4x

• Window and Pane Management Tricks for RStudio and your OS

Insights

• Namibia R Users Group: Fostering the Budding R Community in Namibia

• Four announcements from rstudio::conf(2022)

• Highlights from rstudio::conf(2022)

• RObservations # 36: Opinions on RStudio’s name change. A Bayesian approach with Stan

• Sonnet to infix function

• I know what I did last summer: An RStudio internship retrospective

• Rust and the CRAN Repository Policy

• Pretty ggplots with custom themes, ggtext, and ggh4x

R in the Real World

• Analyzing Passes Under Pressure Shiny App (Women in Sports Data 2022 Hackathon submission)

• StatsBomb Win Probability Match Evaluator Shiny App (Women in Sports Data 2022 Hackathon submission)

• Exploring Canadian Premier League data

• Data: Trade Valuation Systems per Country

• Schools in England

R in Organizations

• Code to produce and validate AOH maps of birds and mammals - BirdLife International

• Diffify - 3 months on

R in Academia

• Downstream Bioinformatics Analysis of Omics Data with edgeR

Resources

• Tips and tricks for ggplot2

• Two RStudio Addins: {quartostamp} and {snorkel}

• Introduction to snapshot testing in R (slides)

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {waywiser} 0.1.0: Yardstick Extensions for Measuring Spatial Structure in Model Residuals.

• {censored} 0.1.0: ‘parsnip’ Engines for Survival Models.

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {dotInternals} 0.1.0: Prepend Internal Package Function Names With a Dot.

• {r2c} 0.0.1: Fast Iterated Statistic Computation in R.

• {isocuboids} 0.0.0.9000: A package for transforming images/pictures or matrices into pseudo 3D isometric height maps.

• {WrensBookshelf} 0.1.0: A collection of palettes from Wren’s Bookshelf, and some functions to use them.

• {tidyduck} 0.5.0: High-level R bindings for the DuckDB Database Management System.

• {pokeapi} 0.1.0: R wrapper for Pokéapi v2.

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• spatialsample 0.2.1: Create and summarize spatial resampling objects. - diffify

• {dispRity} 1.7.0: Measuring disparity with R. - diffify

• {chessR} 1.5.1: An R package designed to extract and analyse chess game data played on Lichess and chess.com. - diffify

• {tiledb} 0.15.0: R interface to the TileDB Universal Storage Engine. - diffify

• {calibrationband} 0.2.1: Calibration Bands. - diffify

• {bread} 0.2.3: Analyze Big Files Without Loading Them in Memory. - diffify

• {nflreadr} 1.3.0: Download ‘nflverse’ Data. - diffify

• {RcppCCTZ} 0.2.11: Rcpp bindings for CCTZ. - diffify

• {rsample} 1.1.0: General Resampling Infrastructure. - diffify

• {datefixR} 1.1.0: Standardize Dates in Different Formats or with Missing Data. - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Iteration in R: from for loops to purr and beyond

• TidyX: RStudio::Conf 2022 Recap

• How to Create a Vector with Names in R (Example Code) - Named Numerical Values - setNames() Function

• Building Websites in R with Distill - ArabR (OmanR User Group)

• R package reviews - sjPlot - Easily Visualize Data And Model Results

Shiny Apps

• Labelling the points of a ‘ggplot’ with Shiny

R Internationally

• Un extraño truco para obtener el máximo (o el mínimo)

Tutorials

• Using across() to create multiple columns

• Quarto Website with GitHub Actions

• Simulating data from a non-linear function by specifying a handful of points

• New statistical geoms in {ggxmean}

• Bring Your Own Binary Packages with RSPM

• Linux Packages for R

• Window and Pane Management Tricks for RStudio and your OS

• Working with Qualtrics Data - Part 1: Importing Data

• 5 hidden gems from gg-packages to level up your dataviz game

• Alternative ways to visualize correlations

• Forget regular heat maps. Use bubbles on a grid!

• Pyramid Plots in ggplot2

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

• August 17: Using R on HPC Clusters Webinar

• August 19: August BookClub - ISLR Tidymodels Lab

• August 31: ‘Build your first Shiny App’ with us

• September 21: R-Ladies NYC Lightning Talks - RSVP and Call for Speakers

Jobs

Data Scientist - Apple Cloud

rtistry

• Celestial-style map of Chiayi (Jiayi), Taiwan

Some late night #rtistry #RStats pic.twitter.com/BAJ7rnYjmU

— chris (@dickie_roper) August 12, 2022

I've been up since 3am, but I took advantage of the energy burst. Preparing for an upcoming #rtistry talk 🎉😴 pic.twitter.com/X1kCTKORfX

— Meghan Harris (@meghansharris) August 12, 2022

Quotes of the Week

Now that #RStudioConf2022 is over and I've had some time to process, it's time for a 🧵 to look back and summarize my copious notes. Hopefully this can be useful to someone other than just me! #RStudioConf #RStats #PyData

— Jon Harmon (he/him) (@JonTheGeek) July 29, 2022

Just discovered you can create a docker image from for your #rstats project with a one-liner using either the DESCRIPTION file or the `renv` lock file: pic.twitter.com/tdZAYUFzYD

— Philippe Massicotte (@philmassicotte) August 1, 2022

If I ever write a book ...#rstats #dataviz #datavisualization pic.twitter.com/BdprjqIiPd

— Pablo Alvarez (@pablo_alvrez) August 5, 2022

R users, what is your favorite package that interacts with a web API?

I’m making an R package for the Discogs API and have so far relied on spotifyr as a source of design inspiration, could use a few more high-quality examples like it to draw from#rstats

— Neal Grantham 🆖 (@nsgrantham) August 12, 2022

The exchange I had the other day with 2 tidyverse supporters here inspired me to collect some data re usage of base-R vs. Tidy in major R packages. I've just posted it to my stat/R blog, https://t.co/0AOsgajQUN

— Norm Matloff 全世界加油！ (@matloff) August 7, 2022