R Weekly 2024-W05 - Notes from live code review, and load different R package versions at once

29 Jan 2024

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

Highlight

• Notes from live code review of {soils}

• Load different R package versions at once with git worktree

Insights

• R forward Website Relaunch

• Quarto 1.4 has been released

• Extract raster values to points with bilinear interpolation

• Actual pixel sizes of unprojected raster maps

• Fairness and discrimination, PhD Course, #4 Wasserstein Distances and Optimal Transport

• Remove Specific Row in R: How to & Examples with dplyr

• qlcal 0.0.10 on CRAN: Calendar Updates

• RApiDatetime 0.0.9 on CRAN: Maintenance

• RcppAnnoy 0.0.22 on CRAN: Maintenance

• x13binary 1.1.60 on CRAN: Upstream Update, Updated Build

• RProtoBuf 0.4.22 on CRAN: Updated Windows Support!

• bigrquery 1.5.0

• The source of the cake dataset

R in Organizations

• rOpenSci News Digest, January 2024

• Events at Jumping Rivers 2024

Resources

• undergrad PsyTeachR data skills book for beginners in #rstats

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• {rusquant} 1.0.5: Quantitative Trading Framework

• {PxWebApiData} 0.9.0: PX-Web Data by API

• {AnalysisLin} 0.1.0: Exploratory Data Analysis

• {lightparser} 0.1.0: From ‘Rmarkdown’ and ‘Quarto’ Files to Tibble and Back

• {texPreview} 2.1.0: Compile and Preview Snippets of ‘LaTeX’

• {labelr} 0.1.2: Label Data Frames, Variables, and Values

• {distops} 0.1.0: Usual Operations for Distance Matrices in R

• {AutoPlots} 1.0.0: Creating Echarts Visualizations as Easy as Possible

• {cliot} 0.1.0: Clinical Indices and Outcomes Tools

• {tinytable} 0.0.2: Simple and Configurable Tables in ‘HTML’, ‘LaTeX’, ‘Markdown’, ‘Word’, and ‘PNG’ Formats

• {retel} 0.1.0: Regularized Exponentially Tilted Empirical Likelihood

• {arcpy} 0.4-0: Interface to ‘ArcGIS’ ‘Python’ Modules

• {sqlhelper} 0.2.1: Easier ‘SQL’ Integration

• {TDApplied} 3.0.2: Machine Learning and Inference for Topological Data Analysis

• {evprof} 1.0.0: Electric Vehicle Charging Sessions Profiling and Modelling

• {openscoring} 1.0.1: ‘Open Scoring’ API Client

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {kyotil} 2023.11-27: Utility Functions for Statistical Analysis Report Generation and Monte Carlo Studies - diffify

• {iCellR} 1.6.5: Analyzing High-Throughput Single Cell Sequencing Data - diffify

• {vegdata} 0.9.12: Access Vegetation Databases and Treat Taxonomy - diffify

• {ggparallel} 0.3.0: Variations of Parallel Coordinate Plots for Categorical Data - diffify

• {tidyBdE} 0.3.5: Download Data from Bank of Spain - diffify

• {tsibble} 1.1.4: Tidy Temporal Data Frames and Tools - diffify

• {plume} 0.2.3: A Simple Author Handler for Scientific Writing - diffify

• {robustmatrix} 0.1.2: Robust Matrix-Variate Parameter Estimation - diffify

• {igraph} 2.0.1: Network Analysis and Visualization - diffify

• {coffee} 0.3.0: Chronological Ordering for Fossils and Environmental Events - diffify

• {raptr} 1.0.1: Representative and Adequate Prioritization Toolkit in R - diffify

• {stranslate} 0.1.3: Simple Translation Between Different Languages - diffify

• {cv} 1.1.0: Cross-Validation of Regression Models - diffify

• {selenider} 0.3.0: Concise, Lazy and Reliable Wrapper for ‘chromote’ and ‘selenium’ - diffify

• {dataset} 0.3.1: Create Data Frames that are Easier to Exchange and Reuse - diffify

• {cellpypes} 0.3.0: Cell Type Pipes for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data - diffify

• {annotater} 0.2.3: Annotate Package Load Calls - diffify

• {stevetemplates} 1.0.0: Steve’s R Markdown Templates - [diffify](https://diffify.com/R/stevetemplates

• {amanida} 0.3.0: Meta-Analysis for Non-Integral Data - diffify

• {jskm} 0.5.3: Kaplan-Meier Plot with ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {iheatmapr} 0.7.1: Interactive, Complex Heatmaps - diffify

• {quanteda.textplots} 0.94.4: Plots for the Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data - diffify

• {PHEindicatormethods} 2.0.2: Common Public Health Statistics and their Confidence Intervals - diffify

• {oaii} 0.4.0: ‘OpenAI’ API R Interface - diffify

• Unveiling the Earliest Date: A Journey Through R

• Mastering Date Calculations in R: A Guide to Calculating Months with Base R and lubridate

• Exploring Data Lengths with R’s lengths() Function

• Demystifying bootstrap_stat_plot(): Your Ticket to Insightful Data Exploration

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• 2024-01-17 (Meeting #136) R Stats Bootcamp Session 1 (Ed)

• 2024-01-24 (Meeting #137) R Stats Bootcamp Session 2 (Ed)

• Familiarization with R: Using R as a calculator

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKjz_xkMgxY

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK7U10omEJo

Tutorials

• 3MW (Inserting JavaScript into {reactable})

• Load different R package versions at once with git worktree

• Notes from live code review of {soils}

• How to make a multi-group dotplot for single-cell RNAseq data

• An interactive mini course helping R developers be So. Much. More. efficient at data analysis

• ISLR tidymodels labs

• WhatsR – An R-Package for processing exported WhatsApp Chat Logs

• mirai Parallel Clusters

• How to Extract Month from Date in R (With Examples)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Grants

• 2024 RUGS Program Progress: Reviewing Grants and Empowering R Communities

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

rtistry

Population density of Japan revisited. I did something like this before but made a few changes here. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/jSGCsKR5C9

— tterence on bsky (@researchremora) January 21, 2024

Rivers and lakes of the Iberian Peninsula.#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/0Qu4Y0NeTw

— tterence on bsky (@researchremora) January 28, 2024

Quotes of the Week

One of my favorite #rstats interactive mapping tricks: using the `|` operator in mapview to create a swipe map.

Here - showing the results of the `erase_water()` function in the Seattle area! pic.twitter.com/sBf0ktZEx4

— Kyle Walker (@kyle_e_walker) January 25, 2024