R Weekly 2022-W25

20 Jun 2022

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

Highlight

• rstudio::conf(2022) Conference Schedule

• Why You Should (or Shouldn’t) Build an API Client

• R Shiny Hotjar – How To Monitor User Behavior in R Shiny Apps

• Listen to R-Weekly Highlights Episode 83

Insights

• Why You Should (or Shouldn’t) Build an API Client

• Nesting Functions

• Why does R allow to use the period/dot “.” in naming variables? (Reddit discussion)

• Timing data.table Operations

R in the Real World

• New R Community in Botswana Wants to Implement Data Into Local Businesses

• J.League Soccer 2022 Mid-Season Review

R in Organizations

• North East Data Scientists Group Works As a Professional Group

• Communication & Collaboration with Contributors in an Open-Source Organization

Resources

• Game of fits: context

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• RcppArmadillo 0.11.2.0.0 on CRAN: New Upstream

• AsioHeaders 1.22.1-1 on CRAN

• 🧼 cleanrmd

Updated Packages

• nanonext 0.5.1 - NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen) Lightweight Messaging Library - added to Web Technologies CRAN Task View

• huxtable 5.5.0 - easily create and style tables for LaTeX, HTML and other formats

Videos and Podcasts

• Use resampling to understand #TidyTuesday drought in TX

• 159 - Ecosystems vs. Platforms

Shiny Apps

• Exploring your database with shiny

• “Thinning” Images

Tutorials

• Converting Between Currencies Using priceR

• Automated Survey Reporting With googlesheets4, pins, and R Markdown

• R Shiny Hotjar – How To Monitor User Behavior in R Shiny Apps

• How to Filter Rows In R?

• Nonlinear Regression Analysis in R

• RObservations #32: Creating an Instant Answer Oracle with httr and Shiny

• Visualize SHAP Values without Tears

• Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) using R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• useR! 2022 – all virtual – is next week!

• rstudio::conf(2022) Conference Schedule

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Big news in #ggplot2 land (development version). A new aesthetic has landed: Meet "linewidth". Prior to this "size" was used to scale both area and width based traits, but those are two very different things and we are making amends now. #rstats

— Thomas Lin Pedersen (@thomasp85) June 15, 2022