R Weekly 2022-W20 Topographic Maps, Playing the Drums, and a New R4DS Chapter

16 May 2022

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

Highlight

• New r4ds chapter: missing values

• Making a crisp topography map with R

• {tr808r}: Play the drums with an R package

• Listen to R-Weekly Highlights Episode 78

Insights

• Key data viz principles implemented in R

• Counting characters in a number

• Code line highlighting in Quarto

• Predict NYT bestsellers

• New r4ds chapter: missing values

R in the Real World

• IRRBB Interest Rate Shock Scenarios using R code

door %>% ggplot(art.x, art.y) %>% geom_violinhalf() #RStats #ggplot pic.twitter.com/T0Atm6JTCr

— Claire (she/they 🏳️‍🌈) (@ClaireECusack) May 13, 2022

• R Cakes over the years

R in Organizations

If you want to be involved with RainbowR, come join our chat ! // Retweets are appreciated 🌈

May 18th 4pm UTC (9 am Pacific) https://t.co/Gxh5cKwHSr#RStats #LGBTQ #WomenWhoCode #WomenInSTEM #LatinR pic.twitter.com/IUrxOiM4ag

— R LGBTQ+ (@R_LGBTQ) May 14, 2022

• Nominations for bioconductor community award

R in Academia

• ascotraceR: An R Package resource to simulate the spread of blight in a chickpea field (paper)

BRCA1 gene - Converting coding regions of a gene to binary, randomizing circle size and width. #R #RStats pic.twitter.com/zxX6XstAUm

— Nick Borcherding (@theHumanBorch) May 12, 2022

Resources

• Skimming #rstats on Twitter

• A WebGPU Graphics Device for R (Slides)

• Debugging cheat sheet

• Psych 252: Statistical Methods for Behavioral and Social Sciences

• Learn R for Health Researchers

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

My mental model of libraries and packages in #RStats#RStatsMemes pic.twitter.com/5Ijv17x720

— mikefc (@coolbutuseless) May 11, 2022

CRAN

• {ggblanket} 1.0.0: Wrappers to Make Beautiful ggplot2 Visualisation Simpler.

• {collapse} 1.8.1

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {tr808r}: Drum machine

• {ggblend} 0.0.0.9000: Support for blend modes in ggplot2.

• {bsutils} 0.0.0.9000: ‘Shiny’ Utilities for ‘Bootstrap 5’.

• {lterpalettefinder}

Updated Packages

• {makepipe} 0.2.0

• {nanonext} 0.5.0: NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen) Lightweight Messaging Library

• {flightsbr} 0.2.0: R Package to Download Flight and Airport Data from Brazil.

• {vscode-R} 2.5.0

• {roxygen2} 7.2.0

• Apache {arrow} 8.0.0

• {distill} 1.4

• {stplanr} 0.9.0

• {mvMORPH} 1.1.6

• {biscale} 0.2.0

Videos and Podcasts

• R/Pharma 2021 Day 1. Mike Smith. There’s only one R in Pfizer

Gist & Cookbook

• Number of books featured in the @nytimes fiction bestsellers for this week’s #TidyTuesday. First “published” plot using @coolbutuseless’s {ggsvg} code

• Title words in NYT bestsellers

Shiny Apps

R Internationally

Tutorials

• Lognormal and hurdle Gaussian models with {brms}

• Regular expressions in R

• Exploring RStudio’s Visual Markdown Editor

• GIS and mapping in R

• Using the {ggthemes} package

• Crisp topography with R

• How to make a rounded corner bar plot in R

• One-Way ANOVA

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Big Data Belfast: May 25th

• Mapping interactively with R Shiny (R-Ladies Brisbane): May 26th

• Fitting distributions in R (NHS workshop): June 8th

• New York R Conference: June 8th-10th

• UseR! (Online): June 20th-23rd

• Rstudio::Conf: July 25th-28th

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• RStudio Community Monthly Events Roundup - May 2022

• Shiny in Production (October 4-5, 2022)

Grants & Funding

Datasets

• {pharmaR} case studies

• {dcflights21} flights to and from DC

• {cansim}: Statistics from Canada

• {FHSTR}: Olympic data

Art

Rugged waves #creativecoding #generativeart #rtistry #rstats pic.twitter.com/ZPHWV5YsGR

— Saurabh Dhiman (@saurabhdhiman) May 13, 2022

Pickover 30#rtistry #generativeart #rstats pic.twitter.com/g3AN6dr5ba

— Jacquie Tran (@jacquietran) May 14, 2022

It's a different kind of danger.
#rtistry #generativeart pic.twitter.com/xiXmnyeLhq

— Ijeamaka A (@ijeamaka_a) May 13, 2022

Jobs

• Data Scientist - Cynkra

• Research Software Engineer - University of Sheffield (Faculty of Engineering - Department of Computer Science)

• Senior Research Software Engineer - data.org

• R Analytics Developer - Looma

Call for Participation

• RainbowR Public Chat on Zoom - May 18

Quotes of the Week

Monday's Question of the Day:

To the R experts, what's a "beginner" mistake you made this week? 🙈

Let's show the newer users that simple coding mistakes != bad programmer.👩‍💻

— We are R-Ladies (@WeAreRLadies) May 9, 2022

#RStats is not mincing words about my new data 🥲 pic.twitter.com/8me11CKmzt

— Kate Petrova (@kate_ptrv) May 14, 2022

RStudio is pre-approved software for install at work. Wonderful.
R is not, and has been subject to a three month "investigation" by cyber security and risk assurance teams. Not wonderful.#RStats

— Cam Ritchie (@cmrlefty) May 12, 2022

Morris' Rule: the fastest way to get someone to explain how to do something in R is to post a tweet asking how (or saying how...) to do it in Stata

— Andrew Althouse (@ADAlthousePhD) May 12, 2022