R Weekly 2021-W45 Coordinates from fictional maps, custom point shapes, moving branches

08 Nov 2021

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

Highlight

• Get coordinates from fictitious maps

• Custom {ggplot2} point shapes with {gggrid}

• branchMover: A Shiny app for moving the default branch of your GitHub repos

Insights

• {binance} Spot Trading: Limit Orders

• Under The Same Name: Journal titles and band names

• Custom {ggplot2} point shapes with {gggrid}

• An R Community Public Library

• How to improve conference accessibility for screen-reader users—an interview with Liz Hare

• Why R? 2021 Conference - Call for Papers and Registration

• #30DayMapChallenge 2021 Day 2: Lines

• What’s Neural Network?

• Announcing RStudio on Amazon SageMaker

• {binance} Spot Trading: Market Orders

• Fast and scalable forecasting with ahead::ridge2f

• The Polarization of Death

• Get coordinates from fictitious maps

• Why you should read Mythical Man-Month: Useful reading for R Shiny developers

• Why Hania Rani and Giovanni Allevi are so successful

R in the Real World

The Divided Kingdom: the UKs North-South divide is the most unequal in the developed world

Resources

Swirl-Tidy: A series of swirl lessons on how to use packages in {tidyverse}.

Apache Arrow R cookbook

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {mctq} 0.1.0 - Tools to process the Munich ChronoType Questionnaire (MCTQ)

• {cffr} 0.1.0: Generate Citation File Format (cff) Metadata for R Packages

• {makepipe} 0.0.4: Pipeline Tools Inspired by ‘GNU Make’

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

• pyramidi: Read & write midi data to / from data frames

• ggbenjamini: Generate benjamini leaves with bezier curves

• branchMover: A Shiny app for moving the default branch of your GitHub repos

• {painbow} 1.0.0: Use XKCD’s Painbow colormap with ggplot

Updated Packages

• {santoku} 0.6.0: A Versatile Cutting Tool

• archive 1.1.2

• RDieHarder 0.2.2 on CRAN: Simpler Build, Fixes

• RcppQuantuccia 0.1.0 on CRAN: Full QuantLib Business Calendar Support

• dang 0.0.15: Small Correction

Videos and Podcasts

• Arranging Plots in R with patchwork and ggforce

• TidyX Episode 81 : Tidymodels - Logistic Regression with GLM

• How to set up Automated Tests for Your R Package using testthat

Tutorials

• Spatial resampling for #TidyTuesday and the #30DayMapChallenge

• error: No CurrentVersion entry in Software/JavaSoft registry!

• Bump chart of Scottish greenhouse gas emissions

• Survival Analysis in tidymodels

• Little useless-useful R functions – Interactive Voronoi diagram generator using R and x11()

• Cross Validation in R with Example

• Regression in R-Ultimate Guide

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• November 13: R-Ladies Nairobi Anniversay Social

• November 18th: NIMBLE tutorial

• November 24th: Shiny Workshop

• December 7th: Enhancing Software Peer Review with GitHub Automation

• RStudio Community Monthly Events - November 2021

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Thinking about it, Non Standard Evaluation is really a confusing name, what is "standard" ? + sometimes you use NSE in order NOT to evaluate your arguments. What it really is, AFAICT, is "argument capture", much less scary too IMO. #rstats

— Antoine Fabri (@antoine_fabri) November 1, 2021

📢🤓 Ever load a bunch of data frames in #rstats and want to look up which contain a particular variable name (or name snippet)? Check this out! #rdatarecipes 😎 https://t.co/owwgfJFISW pic.twitter.com/WnNfeyIS5Z

— Isabella Velásquez (@ivelasq3) November 5, 2021

remember kids everything in #rstats is a function pic.twitter.com/RifpqmKft7

— Matthew Kay (@mjskay) October 31, 2021