R Weekly 2021-31 Officedown, statsExpressions, and reprex testing

02 Aug 2021

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

Highlight

• Up and running with Officedown

• Reminder to test with a reprex to help yourself solve your problems (or get help!)

• {statsExpressions} 1.2.0: Add statistical detail to data frames and plots

Insights

• Is Success Luck or Hard Work?

• Reminder to test with a reprex to help yourself solve your problems (or get help!)

R in the Real World

• J.League 2021 Mid-Season Review!

• A classification model to predict if The Needle Drop would love an album using Spotify data, Rm and Python via the reticulate package.

Day 5 ML discussion of #100DaysOfCode #100DaysOfMLCode.

Difference between overfitting, underfitting and right fit. Hope it helps.#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #DataScience #MachineLearning #CodeNewbie #Python #ML pic.twitter.com/nwzEvlXxTN

— Mosarrat Rumman Isaba (@_isaba_) July 30, 2021

R in Organizations

R in Academia

• pollucheck v1.0: A package to explore open-source air pollution data

• A method for deriving information from running R code

Resources

• 2020 Summer Olympics medals per million people

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {googlesheets4}: Work with Google spreadsheets from R.

• {bcputility} 0.1.0: Provides functions to utilize a command line utility that does bulk inserts and exports from SQL Server databases.

• {statsExpressions} 1.2.0: Add statistical detail to data frames and plots

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {ggqr}: ggplot2 geom for QR codes

• {bdftools}: Bitmap font tools for R

• {emoji}: Data About Emojis

• {report}: Automated reporting in R Markdown

• {obsplot}

Updated Packages

• {tidymodels}: New releases

• {postcards}

• {tidybayes} and {ggdist}

Videos and Podcasts

• Accessing SQL Databases in R: Three Approaches

Gist & Cookbook

Shiny Apps

• Omics Playground

R Internationally

• (Japanese) ggplot2 で日付・時刻データを扱うときは日付の型の違いに注意

• 久々に R の … に騙されたので結果が正しいかどうか確認しないとダメなアンチパターン集を書く

Tutorials

• One-step Bayesian imputation when you have dropout in your RCT

• Make an art gallery with {bs4cards}

• What colour is London?

• R Client for R-univ

• Visualizing data with raincloud plots

• Using tidymodels to tune xgboost

• Up and running with Officedown

• Let users choose which plot you want to show

• Shiny video game: how to build an award winning app

• Debug your packages that failed on CRAN with {rhub}

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

Minutes from the R Contribution Working Group July Meeting.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Scaling R at GSK - The R Adoption Series

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Datasets

Jobs

Call for Participation

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Rtistry

Charcoal flower #rstats #generative #maths #rtistry pic.twitter.com/5pZsHWoxLY

— Antonio Sánchez Chinchón (@aschinchon) July 25, 2021

Quotes of the Week

Mood: #rstats ⁦@OpenAcademics⁩ pic.twitter.com/c5iF8xh5In

— Kelly Kapsar (@KellyKapsar) July 29, 2021

Me presenting my model that's still doing worse than just the mean #rstats pic.twitter.com/TX8D9hcz2s

— Emma Vitz (@EmmaVitz) July 29, 2021