R Weekly 2021-W19 map-walk-pivot, centralperk, Shiny Dev Series

10 May 2021

Release Date: 2021-05-10

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

Highlight

• Map, Walk, Pivot

• Introducing {centralperk}: Get quotes from the main characters of the TV show ‘Friends’

• Shiny Developer Series Episode 20: Outstanding User Interfaces with David Granjon

Insights

• Add a Floating Table of Contents in Blogdown

• Spectacularly Prescient – satRday South Africa Covered COVID Data Before Pandemic Hit

R in the Real World

• Waiving Covid-19 Vaccine Patents? I don’t think its a good idea…

• The Health Service Modelling Associates (HSMA) Programme – the future of analytics for health, social care and policing?

• Comparing the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Management for some Developed Countries

R in Organizations

• Low Friction Package Management in Three Parts

• GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Joins R Consortium

• RStudio and APIs

R in Academia

• EdOptimize – An Open Source K-12 Learning Analytics Platform

Resources

• Learning Statistics: On Hot, Cool, and Large Numbers

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {ggstream} 0.1.0: Create Streamplots in ‘ggplot2’

• {DockerParallel} 1.0.0: Using the Docker Container to Create R Workers on Local or Cloud Platform

• {ttt} 1.0: The Table Tool

• {pathviewr} 1.0.1: Wrangle, Analyze, and Visualize Animal Movement Data

• {covidcast} 0.4.2: Client for Delphi’s ‘COVIDcast Epidata’ API

• {vetr} 0.2.13: Trust, but Verify

• {hakaiApi} 1.0.0: Authenticated HTTP Request Client for the ‘Hakai’ API

• {windfarmGA} 3.0.0: Genetic Algorithm for Wind Farm Layout Optimization

• {latexdiffr} 0.1.0: Diff ‘rmarkdown’ Files Using the ‘latexdiff’ Utility

• {autoharp} 0.0.6: Semi-Automatic Grading of R and Rmd Scripts

• {visachartR} 1.0.2: Wrapper for ‘Visa Chart Components’

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Introducing {centralperk}: Get quotes from the main characters of the TV show ‘Friends’

Updated Packages

• What’s New in terrainr 0.4.0?

• {waiter} 0.2.1: Loading Screen for ‘Shiny’

• {ggVennDiagram} 1.1.0: A ‘ggplot2’ Implement of Venn Diagram

• {settings} 0.2.7: Software Option Settings Manager for R

• {cherry} 0.6-14: Multiple Testing Methods for Exploratory Research

• {ssh} 0.8.0: Secure Shell (SSH) Client for R

• {httpuv} 1.6.1: HTTP and WebSocket Server Library

• {ggimg} 0.1.1: Graphics Layers for Plotting Image Data with ‘ggplot2’

• {opencv} 0.2.1: Bindings to ‘OpenCV’ Computer Vision Library

• {future.callr} 0.6.1: A Future API for Parallel Processing using ‘callr’

• {preferably} 0.3.1: A ‘pkgdown’ Template

• {torchaudio} 0.2.0: R Interface to ‘pytorch’’s ‘torchaudio’

• {rzmq} 0.9.8: R Bindings for ‘ZeroMQ’

• {foghorn} 1.4.0: Summarize CRAN Check Results in the Terminal

Videos and Podcasts

• Shiny Developer Series Episode 20: Outstanding User Interfaces with David Granjon

• Predict availability in #TidyTuesday water sources with random forest models

• New series “Little-known useful R functions #1: lookup() from {lookup}

• Tidy Tuesday live screencast: Analyzing water access points in R

• Shiny Development Night! Dream Keyboard Designer #3 (AftonSteps)]

• Livecoding R/GHA: Working on some data pipelines and trade calculator maintenance (TanHo_)

Shiny Apps

• Polished Hosting - A New Way to Deploy Shiny Apps

• modvizpop - R & Shiny based population PK/PD model simulator

• A tour of Torch learnr tutorial

R Internationally

• Find out about the R Community in Zurich, Switzerland

Tutorials

• Introduction to Shiny

• Learn How to Convert Matrix to dataframe in R with base functions & tibble

• Map, Walk, Pivot

• Introduction to Functional Data Analysis with R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

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

Online events in 3 Months:

• A list of Online events

• R User Groups Meetups

• R Lille Meetup: “Reproducible Computation at Scale in R with {targets}”

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

So great for #rstats to be featured in a national magazine https://t.co/gtfXosuMTZ pic.twitter.com/faGgl5UnW2

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) May 9, 2021

Based on the suggestion at https://t.co/smc12SFdOO, I am thinking about writing an #rmarkdown interface to create #rstats {targets} pipelines. Sketch: https://t.co/lVXvqLIGlT. Please let me know if you have #rmarkdown magic to share.

— Will Landau (@wmlandau) May 7, 2021

#rstats PSA: If you are interested in contributing to base R (be it bug confirmation, patches to R itself, contributing to translation, etc) and use slack check out the R-devel slack here: https://t.co/kM6xTRTkXb

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