R Weekly 2021-W38 Eras of MTV, R System Commands

20 Sep 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

• Finding the Eras of MTV’s The Challenge Through Clustering

• How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package

Insights

• LA R Expands Beyond California

• How do you use Shiny to communicate to 8 million people?

• Creating Successful R User Groups in Abuja, Nigeria

R in the Real World

• Scrape clubs predictions and visualize championship winning probabilities.

• Climate circles

• Nonlinear Market Forecasting using ‘Stealth Curves’

• Finding the Eras of MTV’s The Challenge Through Clustering

• Netting income

• Does 100 m equal 1 km?

R in Academia

• RTutor: Insurance and the Church

• The Statsomat Apps with R and Python

Resources

• Download recently published book – Learn Data Science with R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {r2pptx} Object Oriented R -> PowerPoint: Provides a friendly, object oriented API for creating PowerPoint slide decks in R.

• {webexercises} 1.0.0: Create Interactive Web Exercises in ‘R Markdown’ (Formerly ‘webex’)

• {fsr} 1.0.0: Handling Fuzzy Spatial Data

• {ebirdst} 0.3.2: Access and Analyze eBird Status and Trends Data

• {macleish} 0.3.8: Retrieve Data from MacLeish Field Station

Updated Packages

• {tidyCpp 0.0.5} More Protect’ion

• {styler} 1.6.1: Non-Invasive Pretty Printing of R Code

• {shinytest} 1.5.1: Test Shiny Apps

• {vroom} 1.5.5: Read and Write Rectangular Text Data Quickly

• {rmarkdown} 2.11: Dynamic Documents for R

Videos and Podcasts

• Creating Your Own R Package: Why and When

• Beyond Bar and Box Plots

• Creating more versatile functions using dot-dot-dot and curly-curly

Tutorials

• ggplot-tips: Using position_stack() for Individual Positioning

• Creating more versatile functions using dot-dot-dot and curly-curly

• Creating PowerPoint decks in R with r2pptx

• {emayili} Rendering R Markdown

• Why I’m Excited to Join RStudio, Told Through a {blogdown} Metadata Project

• How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package

• Signed and verified: signed git commits with Keybase and RStudio

• Drawing the wrong conclusion about subgroups: a comparison of Bayes and frequentist methods

• Is the Stock Market Efficient? Let your ZIP Compression Tool give an Answer!

• Introducing {priorityqueue} - two simple priority queues. One written in R, the other in C

• Dimensionality reduction for #TidyTuesday Billboard Top 100 songs

• Little useless-useful R functions – Useless analog and digital clocks

• New {flexo} vignette - parsing subtitles in srt format

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• September 22: Fast and {furrr}-ious - real time economic monitoring using R

• October 2: satRday Columbus

• November 10-12: LatinR 2021

• November 24-26: The Use of R in Official Statistics

• 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

I'm delighted to present 'ggHoriPlot', a user-friendly and highly customizable R package for building horizon plots in #ggplot2.https://t.co/pqxEEKuwlr

Plot data compactly and expand your horizons using 'ggHoriPlot'! Thread below 🧵👇 #RStats #DataScience pic.twitter.com/SRxwa7Wrnk

— Iker Rivas-González (@irg_bio) September 14, 2021

Life-expectancy drop in 2020 compared to previous years. Another look at the results of our forthcoming IJE paper. @OxfordDemSci @CPop_SDU #rstats Code: https://t.co/7O1wf1Pi6j pic.twitter.com/vSe4xtvJ2X

— Jonas Schöley (@jschoeley) September 15, 2021