R Weekly 2023-W11 webR 0.1.0, DRY WIT approach, and webR with Quarto

13 Mar 2023

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

Highlight

• webR 0.1.0 has been released

• Software engineering techniques that non-programmers who write a lot of code can benefit from — the DRY WIT approach

• webR with Quarto HTML Standalone Document Proof of Concept

Insights

• tidyverse 2.0.0

• webR 0.1.0 has been released

• What I’ve learned making an .epub Ebook with Quarto

• Copilot for R

• Upside down, a cat’s still a cat: Evolving image recognition with Geometric Deep Learning

• Path length limit on Windows

• webR with Quarto HTML Standalone Document Proof of Concept

• RStudio 2022.12.0: What’s New

• Deep learning with Keras using MNIST dataset

• hrbrmstr’s WebR (webR?) Experiments

• Software engineering techniques that non-programmers who write a lot of code can benefit from — the DRY WIT approach

R in Organizations

• Connecting to Snowflake from R using an odbc connection on a M1 Mac

• Network Error Logging - Important Insights

• Content Security Policy - Why You Need It

R in Academia

• Finding Economic Articles with Data: Boosting the App with GPT-3 Embeddings

• Organising R scripts

• The Shortcomings of Standardized Regression Coefficients

Resources

• Visualize data that’s only available as PDF

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {cbcTools} v0.2.0 is now published for the first time on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cbcTools/index.html

• RcppFastAD 0.0.1 and 0.0.2: New Package on CRAN!

• {AMR} 2.0.0

• {lorem} 1.0.0: Generate Lorem Ipsum Text

• {stringstatic} 0.1.0: Dependency-Free String Operations

• {treetop} 0.0.5: A Shiny-Based Application for Extracting Forest Information from LiDAR Data

• {tfevents} 0.0.2: Write Events for TensorBoard

• {guildai} 0.0.1: Track Machine Learning Experiments

• {multicolor} 0.1.7: Add Multiple Colors to your Console & RMarkdown Output

• {metacore} 0.1.2: A Centralized Metadata Object Focus on Clinical Trial Data Programming Workflows

• {reactCheckbox} 1.0.0: Checkbox Group Input for ‘Shiny’

• {ptable} 1.0.0: Generation of Perturbation Tables for the Cell-Key Method

• {parabar} 0.10.1: Progress Bar for Parallel Tasks

• {shinyChatR} 1.0.0: R Shiny Chat Module

Bioconductor

GitHub or Bitbucket

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {nanonext} 0.8.0: NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen) Lightweight Messaging Library

• RcppRedis 0.2.3 on CRAN: Maintenance

• {broom} 1.0.4: Convert Statistical Objects into Tidy Tibbles - diffify
• {FedData} 3.0.3: Functions to Automate Downloading Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources - diffify
• {riskmetric} 0.2.1: Risk Metrics to Evaluating R Packages - diffify
• {leaflet} 2.1.2: Create Interactive Web Maps with the JavaScript ‘Leaflet’ Library - diffify
• {SASmarkdown} 0.8.2: ‘SAS’ Markdown - diffify
• {tidywikidatar} 0.5.7: Explore ‘Wikidata’ Through Tidy Data Frames - diffify
• {tidytable} 0.10.0: Tidy Interface to ‘data.table’ - diffify
• {rstantools} 2.3.0: Tools for Developing R Packages Interfacing with ‘Stan’ - diffify
• {rang} 0.2.0: Reconstructing Reproducible R Computational Environments - diffify
• {modelenv} 0.1.1: Provide Tools to Register Models for Use in ‘tidymodels’ - diffify
• {parttime} 0.1.1: Partial Datetime Handling - diffify
• {ggvis} 0.4.8: Interactive Grammar of Graphics - diffify
• {taylor} 2.0.1: Lyrics and Song Data for Taylor Swift Discography - diffify
• {printr} 0.3: Automatically Print R Objects to Appropriate Formats According to the ‘knitr’ Output Format - diffify
• {tibble} 3.2.0: Simple Data Frames - diffify
• {targets} 0.14.3: Dynamic Function-Oriented ‘Make’-Like Declarative Pipelines - diffify
• {santoku} 0.9.1: A Versatile Cutting Tool - diffify
• {emayili} 0.7.15: Send Email Messages - diffify
• {cowsay} 0.8.2: Messages, Warnings, Strings with Ascii Animals - diffify
• {arrow} 11.0.0.3: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’ - diffify
• {ggsci} 3.0.0: Scientific Journal and Sci-Fi Themed Color Palettes for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {butcher} 0.3.2: Model Butcher - diffify
• {admiral} 0.10.0: ADaM in R Asset Library - diffify
• {officer} 0.6.1: Manipulation of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Documents - diffify
• {openai} 0.4.0: R Wrapper for OpenAI API - diffify
• {epiR} 2.0.58: Tools for the Analysis of Epidemiological Data - diffify
• {tarchetypes} 0.7.5: Archetypes for Targets - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Tutorials

• Call ChatGPT (or really any other API) from R

• Almost Bare Bones WebR Starter App

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• posit::conf(2023) registration and call for talk submissions are now open!

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

• March 15-17: ShinyConf 2023

• April 20: Dataviz with R and ggplot: Using colour and annotations for effective story telling workshop

• April 13: Generalized Additive Models in R Workshop

• April 22: SatRdays London 2023

Grants & Funding

• R Consortium ISC Call for Proposals - Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) grants for low-to-medium risk projects with a focused scope and likely to have a broad impact on the R Community. Deadline 2023-04-01.

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

Decided to try the #tidytuesday for this week on Numbats. Really wanted to focus more on practicing some concepts I've learned in the last few months doing #rtistry with #ggplot in #rstats. Wanted to do more but ran out of time.

Code here➡️ https://t.co/2A7ye66j67 pic.twitter.com/Cr56bMyqok

— Meghan Harris (@meghansharris) March 10, 2023

Topographic map of Germany showing soil texture.
(proportions of sand, silt and clay sized particles)

The map is made entirely in #RStats
#rayshader #maps #cartography #soil pic.twitter.com/mXACTqy4Xz

— @[email protected] (@JensWiesehahn) March 9, 2023

Monochrome Trigonometry 644

Done in #rstats with #ggplot2#Rtistry #generativeart #creativecoding pic.twitter.com/lXa4GwAo41

— aRtfulBot (@aRtfulBot) March 10, 2023

Quotes of the Week

My life this week 😂#Rstats #AltAcChat #AcademicChatter #PhDLife pic.twitter.com/nIXxObTIK5

— Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro 🦇🐈‍⬛🐀 (@JulieTheBatgirl) March 9, 2023