R Weekly 2022-W51 {ggpath}, R7, grid

19 Dec 2022

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

Highlight

• The path to {ggpath}

• What is R7? A New OOP System for R

• 2022-03 Offsetting Lines and Polygons in ‘grid’

Insights

• What is R7? A New OOP System for R

• On target

• The path to {ggpath}

• Designing Accessible Research with R/Shiny

• Still young, ChatGPT surprises with its abilities

• The tools I loved this year

  R in the Real World

• R en Buenos Aires in 2023: Compiling a list of Latin American R packages

• Learning the Fundamentals of R, Workshop with R-Ladies Gaborone and Botswana R User Group

R in Organizations

• NHS-R Workshop: Development and validation of clinical prediction models using R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• Progress on R-spatial evolution, Dec 2022

CRAN

• spdl 0.0.3 on CRAN: Adding File Logger

• New Features and Serious Upgrades in {gt} 0.8.0

• RcppSpdlog 0.0.11 on CRAN: Small Enhancement

• digest 0.6.31 on CRAN: snprintf Update

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {pixeltrix}

• {geojp}

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {nanonext} 0.7.2: NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen) Lightweight Messaging Library

• parallelly 1.33.0: Enhancing the ‘parallel’ Package

• future 1.30.0: Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone

• future.batchtools 0.11.0: A Future API for Parallel and Distributed Processing using ‘batchtools’

• future.callr 0.8.1: A Future API for Parallel Processing using ‘callr’

• future.tests 0.5.0: Test Suite for ‘Future API’ Backends

• listenv 0.9.0: Environments Behaving (Almost) as Lists

• progressr 0.12.0: An Inclusive, Unifying API for Progress Updates

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Quarto with the Quarto Team - Open Source Chat

Shiny Apps

• Gosling: Interactive Genomics Charts in R Shiny

• europeanaR: Exploring A Digitized Art Database with Shiny

Tutorials

• Check if the Column Contains a String or not

• Offsetting Lines and Polygons in ‘grid’

• Hillshade, colors and marginal plots with tidyterra (II)

• Twitcher: tweet frequency over the years

• Google Analytics in R: Review of 2022

• audio transcription with whisper from R

• Converting a package to use doctest

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

+Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Quotes of the Week

New #quartopub #rstats thing I just discovered! You can add settings to _quarto.yml so that the local server Quarto uses for previewing uses the same port every time (along with a bunch of other helpful settings). See all the things you can set here: https://t.co/H35R7Kw3we pic.twitter.com/WJpJDfGaYI

— ❄️⛄️ Andrew Heiss (🐘 @[email protected]) (@andrewheiss) December 15, 2022