R Weekly 2021-W49 Data serialisation in R, Postcards with distill

08 Dec 2021

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

Highlight

• Data serialisation in R

• Day 02: Postcards with distill - rmarkdown + postcards + distill + Netlify - #12daysofdusting

Insights

• October 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• rOpenSci News Digest, November 2021

• R Skopje in North Macedonia Talks About the Challenges of Virtual Events for Smaller Communities

• Upon “A Journal of the Plague Year”

• R Consortium Funding Delivers New Format for the R Journal

• RStudio Community Monthly Events - December 2021

R in the Real World

• A comparative analysis of tweets by British MPs explores populism in U.K.’s Twittersphere

Resources

• Understanding the code used to implement the {survey} package’s recursive variance estimation for multistage samples

• Data serialisation in R

• How to use multilevel models with R and brms to work with country-year panel data

• 2021-04 Luminance Masks in R Graphics

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {vueR} 0.5.3: ‘Vuejs’ Helpers and ‘Htmlwidget’

• {canadamaps} 0.1: Maps of the Political and Administrative Divisions of Canada

• {rsat} 0.1.16: Dealing with Multiplatform Satellite Images

GitHub

• {ltc}: An R package with different color palettes

Updated Packages

• {pkgdown} 2.0.0: Generate a website from a source package

• {dtplyr} 1.2.0: Data Table Back-End for ‘dplyr’

• {targets} 0.9.0: Dynamic Function-Oriented ‘Make’-Like Declarative Workflows

• {precommit} 0.2.0: Pre-Commit Hooks

• {preferably} 0.4.0: An Accessible ‘pkgdown’ Template

Videos and Podcasts

• [Day 01: Postcards

  rmarkdown + postcards + Netlify

  #12daysofdusting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ce-T48lR8A)

• [Day 02: Postcards with distill

  rmarkdown + postcards + distill + Netlify

  #12daysofdusting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPSWqdJr_EY)

• Data Journalism in R - De Tijd

• The rise of R in public health research institutes

• How to Plot Statistical Group Comparisons in R: ggstatsplot

Shiny Apps

• EvanMiya: College Basketball Advanced Analytics

Tutorials

• Understanding text size and resolution in ggplot2

• Contribute to a Community of Practice Blog using Git and R

• Differential gene expression analysis using DESeq2

• Lagged Predictors in Regression Models and Improving by Bootstrapping and Bagging

• Introducing {svgparser} - an SVG renderer in plain R

• {emayili} Sending Encrypted Email

• Mapping iNaturalist Data in R

• Base64 encoding/decoding in plain R

• {OmicNavigator} - Open-source software for omic data analysis and visualization

• Advent of Code 2021

• Advent of Code 2021-01 with R & JavaScript

• 2021 Advent of Code Day 02 “Don’t Try This At Home” Edition

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

Call for Participation

• Why R? 2021

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Quotes of the Week

Today is launch day!🚀🚀
I am super excited to introduce *Tidy Data Tutor* a web application for visualizing your #rstats #tidyverse data analysis pipelines: https://t.co/7DuRg1ilMm
(Developed with Philip Guo) pic.twitter.com/kHzi1GGoYM

— Sean Kross (@seankross) December 4, 2021

Hi friends! I'm happy to announce that {learnr} now has a very fancy, very shiny, very pretty new {pkgdown} site! Big thanks to pkgdown v2 for making our documentation look great while being easy to navigate. #RStatshttps://t.co/P2OuD53Xqc

— Garrick Aden-Buie (@grrrck) December 3, 2021

Distribution of cellular base stations in Germany 📶 seems to be a neural network. I wasn't expecting the massive amount of 3G 😮. #Digitalausbau #rstats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/jsiooblZca

— Dr. Dominic Royé (@dr_xeo) November 30, 2021