R Weekly 2021-W34 source(), Variance Venns, SLICED

23 Aug 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

• Keep your R scripts locally sourced: A lesson from debugging

• Exploring R² and regression variance with Euler/Venn diagrams

• SLICED CHAMPIONSHIP: COMPETITIVE DATA SCIENCE (S01E12)

Insights

• Exploring R² and regression variance with Euler/Venn diagrams

• {emayili}: Rudimentary Email Address Validation

• The “Youth Bulge” of Afghanistan: The Hidden Force behind Political Instability

• Olympics, Reaction Times, Volleyball, and a New Version of SwimmeR

• Text processing and stemming for classification tasks in master data management context

• Four (4) Different Ways to Calculate DCF Based ‘Equity Cash Flow (ECF)’ – Part 4 of 4

• Four (4) Different Ways to Calculate DCF Based ‘Equity Cash Flow (ECF)’ – Part 3 of 4

• Monitoring systemic risk with R

• Posterior probability checking with rvars: a quick follow-up

• Tired of Pie Charts !? Let’s make a Tree Map.

R in the Real World

• Keep your R scripts locally sourced: A lesson from debugging

• Data ETL pipelines to populate an anomaly database - 19/08/2021

• Setting up a transparent reproducible R environment with Docker + renv

Resources

• RTutor: Exploring Economic Impacts of COVID-19

• Learning Path for “Data Science with R” – Part I

• rOpenSci Introduces Monthly Social Coworking and Office Hours

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {docreview} 0.0.1: Opinionated Documentation Checking

• {hidetify} 0.0.1: Identify Influential Observations in High Dimension

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {ETM}: Topic Modelling in Embedding Spaces

Updated Packages

• {ichimoku} 1.0.0: Visualization and Tools for Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Strategies

• Announcing bookdown v0.23

• infer 1.0.0

• RcppBDT 0.2.4 on CRAN: Updates

• matrixStats 0.60.1: Consistent Support for Name Attributes via GSoC Project

• {ggh4x} 0.2.0: Hacks for ‘ggplot2’

• {mlr3spatiotempcv} 1.0.0: Spatiotemporal Resampling Methods for ‘mlr3’

Videos and Podcasts

• TidyX Episode 71: Databases in R - Exploring Your Database with NBA data

• SLICED CHAMPIONSHIP: COMPETITIVE DATA SCIENCE (S01E12)

Shiny Apps

• Using Shiny in Healthcare: Examples from the 2021 Shiny Contest

Tutorials

• ggplot tips: Assigning Labels to an Aesthetic

• Plot Differences in Two Measurements-Bland-Altman Plot in R

• Log Rank Test in R-Survival Curve Comparison

• Goodness of Fit Test- Jarque-Bera Test in R

• How to Plot Categorical Data in R-Quick Guide

• Using R and Microsoft SQL Server to run prediction model with API call

• How Much One Shapefile Overlaps Another?

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

• 8 reasons to come to EARL Conference online 2021

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

Anyone else ever tempted to leave a comment in their code saying, "I know this sucks but I can't come up with anything better right now"? #rstats

— Emma Vitz (@EmmaVitz) August 17, 2021

CONGRATULATIONS to the #SLICED season one winner: @drob!!! 📊🔪

Catch the replay of last night's action-packed showdown between @drob and @EthanCDouglas on Twitch: https://t.co/Uh61pGpbtW

Huge thanks from me and @nickwan to all of our contestants, supporters, and viewers! pic.twitter.com/B39G9w7bc8

— Meg Risdal 👾 (@MeganRisdal) August 18, 2021

Code review is an important part of data science pic.twitter.com/TqAcNCyP9Y

— Jasmine Hughes (@Jas_Hughes) August 19, 2021