R Weekly 2022-W15 Quarto, storytelling, dragons

11 Apr 2022

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

Highlight

• We don’t talk about Quarto

• Recreating the Storytelling with Data look with ggplot

• Programming Games with Shiny - Dragon Realm

Insights

• We don’t talk about Quarto

• Recreating the Storytelling with Data look with ggplot

• R Users Group Seville, Spain Looks Forward to Interactive Hybrid Events in the Future

R in Organizations

• Make robust, modular dashboards with golem and graveler

Resources

• CRAN Task View Initiative: CRAN Task Views relaunched with many improvements!

• A {ggplot2} Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting in R

• A curated list of awesome tools to assist R package development

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {BARIS} 1.1.3: Access and Import Data from the French Open Data Portal

• {ivs} 0.1.0: Interval Vectors

• {manydata} 0.7.3: A Portal for Global Governance Data

GitHub

• {wikipediapreview-r} 0.1.0: R package for using Wikipedia Preview context cards in R Markdown documents

• {ggcalendar} 0.0.0.9000: Create grammar of graphics calendars

• {scattermore} 0.8: Scatterplots with More Points

• {loopurrr} 0.1.1: Tranlate purrr iterator functions to regular for loops

Updated Packages

CRAN

• {sweater} 0.1.4: Speedy Word Embedding Association Test & Extras using R

• {ambiorix} 2.1.0: Web Framework Inspired by ‘Express.js’

• {rcompendium} 1.0: Create a Package or Research Compendium Structure

• {taxonbridge} 1.1.0: Create Custom Taxonomies Based on the NCBI Taxonomy and GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

• {corporaexplorer} 0.8.5: A ‘Shiny’ App for Exploration of Text Collections

• {emayili} 0.7.9: Send Email Messages

• {parallelly} 1.31.0: Enhancing the ‘parallel’ Package

• {future.callr} 0.8.0: A Future API for Parallel Processing using ‘callr’

• {doFuture} 0.12.1: A Universal Foreach Parallel Adapter using the Future API of the ‘future’ Package

Videos and Podcasts

• Shiny: Construindo aplicativos web interativos

• Extreme Rmarkdown report automation with parameters and templates

• Programming Games with Shiny - Dragon Realm

• TidyX Episode 100 - Sampling, Simulation, and Intro to Bayes - Beta Bayes

Shiny Apps

• Finding Economic Articles With Data

• R Shiny in Government – Top 7 Dashboards You Should See

• IPL 2022: Near real-time analytics with GooglyPlusPlus

Tutorials

• How to use functional programming for ggplot

• Why I like XPath, XML and HTML

• Iterating on the GSS

• A Macroeconomics Dashboard on Turkey Inflation

• SFTP in R on a Mac

• RObservations #28 Canada’s Political Leadership and Inflation (Another Kaggle Contribution)

• How to make a boxplot in R

• Dynamic schema, table and column names in SQL Server queries as a gateway to functional programming with R

• R Access to Twitter’s V2 API

• {emayili} Encrypted Email with Mailfence

• Turning {ggplot2} Into a PoS (Point-of-Sale) System

• How to use Fonts and Icons in ggplot

• Saving Daylight Time?

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Enhancements to HTML Documentation

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• WhyR? Turkey (Online): April 15th-17th

• TokyoR #98: April 16th

• Tidy Survey Analysis in R: Workshop Series: April 15th, April 22nd, April 29th

• Big Data Belfast: May 25th

• 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 - April 2022

Grants & Funding

• R Consortium ISC Call for Proposals looking to provide grants for technical projects that will have a significant impact on the R Community. Deadline 2022-05-01

• R Consortium New R User Groups, Conferences, and Training Program. Deadline 2022-09-30

Call for Participation

CRAN Task Views relaunched with many improvements! #rstats #cran @_r_foundationhttps://t.co/mYJ7UvsruE

CRAN Task Views provide a means to find and install pkgs that are relevant for a certain task (e.g., "MachineLearning", "Optimization", "Econometrics", etc.).

Thread (1/7): pic.twitter.com/5I57Z2rev9

— Achim Zeileis (@AchimZeileis) April 4, 2022

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Quotes of the Week

Five quick #rstats tips I've picked up in the plots I've made for the first category of the #30DayChartChallenge 🧵👇

1. Need to plot a million points and ggplot() is taking too long but you want to stay within the tidyverse?

👉 Use 📦{scattermore} with geom_scattermore() 🥳

— Cara Thompson (@cararthompson) April 6, 2022

I've been enjoying visualising art, literature and music recently. Here is my visual interpretation of the emotions in The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, again using the NRC word-emotion lexicon.

Code: https://t.co/zBwjKeVr0l#datavisualization #rstats #r4ds pic.twitter.com/GUr6FCAAoy

— Dan (@FilmicAesthetic) April 7, 2022

Check out my last tutorial on mapping rivers in R if you'd like to make a similar map of European rivers! 🥳

💻https://t.co/qi2oLYSM5e#rivers #africa #datavisualization #visualization #dataviz #RStats #DataScience #maps pic.twitter.com/DjsZWLom5b

— Milos Popovic (@milos_agathon) April 9, 2022