R Weekly 2021-W08 Multi-page {shiny} apps, R package citations, refactoring {squashinformr}

22 Feb 2021

Release Date: 2021-02-22

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

Highlight

• Multi-page {shiny} Applications with {brochure}

• Make Your R Package Easier to Cite

• Refactoring squashinformr

Insights

• Preparing for an Accessible Online Conference

• rOpenSci Statistical Software Testing and Peer Review

• One or two things I wish I had learned in school, the beginning

• Shuffling my Spotify Liked Songs or: checking my assumptions

R in the Real World

• First mlverse survey results – software, applications, and beyond

• EU Vaccine Procurement and a Public Goods Dilemma

• Finding similar spatial patterns

• Who Was The Funniest Character on Friends? Analyzing Comedy in All Friends Episodes

R in Organizations

• Reflecting on Mentorship Experience

R in Academia

• why does rbinom(1,1) differ from sample(0:1,1) with the same seed?

• Seeing the Impossible: Visualizing Latent Variable Models with flexplavaan

• Creating optimal conditions for reproducible data analysis in 𝖱 with ‘fertile’

Resources

• Make Your R Package Easier to Cite

• Selecting the correct image file type

• A complete guide to ggplot2 scales

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {reactablefmtr} 0.1.0: Simplify Formatting of Tables Made with ‘Reactable’

• {pharmaRTF} 0.1.2: Enhanced RTF Wrapper for Use with Existing Table Packages

• {provDebugR} 1.0: A Time-Travelling Debugger

• {AdvancedBasketballStats} 1.0.0: Advanced Basketball Statistics

• {vmr} 0.0.1: Virtual Machines for R

• {memery} 0.5.6: Internet Memes for Data Analysts

• {rando} 0.2.0: Context Aware Random Numbers

• {flipr} 0.1.1: Flexible Inference via Permutations in R

• {sentometrics} 0.8.3: An Integrated Framework for Textual Sentiment Time Series Aggregation and Prediction

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {openlibraryR} 0.0.0.9: Access Book Data via the Open Library API

• {brickset}: R package to interface with the Brickset API for getting data about LEGO.

• {ConfusionTableR} 0.1.0: Creates varied sized data frames for trained caret models.

• {afrihealthsites} 0.1.0: Access to geographic locations of african health sites from different sources.

Updated Packages

• Refactoring squashinformr

• {ragg} 1.1.0: Graphic Devices Based on AGG

• {crul} 1.1.0: HTTP Client

• td 0.0.2 on CRAN: Updated and Expanded

• dang 0.0.13: New intradayMarketMonitor

• {nhlapi} 0.1.3: A Minimum-Dependency ‘R’ Interface to the ‘NHL’ API

• {kableExtra} 1.3.2: Construct Complex Table with ‘kable’ and Pipe Syntax

• {rayimage} 0.5.1: Image Processing for Simulated Cameras

• {rsample} 0.0.9: General Resampling Infrastructure

• {reportfactory} 0.1.3: Lightweight Infrastructure for Handling Multiple R Markdown Documents

• {tidySEM} 0.1.6: Tidy Structural Equation Modeling

• {svglite} 2.0.0: A lightweight svg graphics device for R.

• {shinysurveys} 0.1.2: Develop and deploy surveys in Shiny/R.

• {datamods} 1.0.1: Shiny modules to import data into an application or addin.

Videos and Podcasts

• How to plot in R with {echarts4r}

• Building a blog post using {blogdown}!

• How to Protect R Projects from Breaking Changes in Packages: {renv}

Shiny Apps

• Multi-page {shiny} Applications with {brochure}

• {shinysurveys} 0.1.2: Create and Deploy Surveys in ‘Shiny’

• {datamods} 1.0.1: Modules to Import and Manipulate Data in ‘Shiny’

• Targets Shiny: Simple prototype to help you build powerful data pipelines inside apps.

R Internationally

• Rzine - Diffusion et partage de ressources sur la pratique de R en sciences humaines et sociales

• Major Success! Highlights from the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (CODA.br)

• Interview with Nontsikelelo Shongwe, Co-Organizer of the Eswatini UseR Meetup Group

Tutorials

• Modifying R6 objects after creation

• Modifying R6 objects after creation - Part 2

• Reintroducing myself to football analytics via understatr

• A Simple Ray-Tracer Written in Base R

• Visualizing the treatment effect with an ordinal outcome

• Getting Into the Rhythm of Chart Typography with {ragg} and {hrbragg} (a.k.a. It’s {ragg}-time}

• Little useless-useful R functions – Using L-Systems for useless writing

• What we R about when we R about R and Arduino

• Reintroducing myself to football analytics via understatr

• Testing The Equality of Regression Coefficients

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

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Quotes of the Week

Want to watch a yt video while coding in #Rstudio and don't have second screen? here is a hacky way to do it in the viewer pane (shiny app+local job) . https://t.co/mM9qt4gC8S #rstats pic.twitter.com/frbGLZmz0j

— David Schoch (@schochastics) February 20, 2021

#RStats — With the latest version of {shiny} (1.6.0), you can use reactive objects straight inside an Rmd, thanks to `shiny::reactiveConsole(TRUE)` : pic.twitter.com/7poANaMq9b

— Colin Fay 🤘 (@_ColinFay) February 16, 2021

POV: rstudio watching me try and troubleshoot code pic.twitter.com/lIdVw3bJzp

— gavin jones (@ecologyofgavin) February 20, 2021