R Weekly 2021-W33 Flow Diagrams, Donuts

16 Aug 2021

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

Highlight

• {flow} 0.0.2: View and Browse Code Using Flow Diagrams.

• Some Covid Donuts To End The Week

Videos and Podcasts

• Deploying {shinycal} to the world!

• Ellis Hughes and Patrick Ward start looking at ways to interact with databases, starting with {dbplyr} and {RSQLite}

• Tune xgboost models with early stopping to predict shelter animal status

• Cascadia R Conf 2021

Resources

• Modern Statistics with R

• Doing Bayesian Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse

Insights

• RStudio Voices - Julia Silge

• A summary of some NLP workflows using R/udpipe

• EARL online: Interview with Emily Riederer

R in the Real World

• $GME To The Moon: How Much of an Outlier Was Gamestop’s January Rise?

• How England’s complicated political geography is confusing coronavirus rules

• census 2020: some quick visuals of demographic change

R in Organizations

• Democratizing Data with R, Python, and Slack

• R / Medicine 2021

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {flow} 0.0.2: View and Browse Code Using Flow Diagrams.

• {fastverse} 0.1.8: A Suite of High-Performance Packages for Statistics and Data Manipulation

Updated Packages

• squashinformr v0.2.4: Politely Web Scrape Data from SquashInfo

• {soccermatics} 0.9.5: Visualise football (soccer) tracking and event data.

• nanotime 0.3.3 : Nanosecond Time Resolution for R

Tutorials

• Using awk and R to read many large files, an example with spatial fishing data

• How to setup a local PostgreSQL Database & RStudio using Docker

• Repeated Measures ANOVA using Python and R (with examples)

• Venn diagrams in Python and R

• Cutting down code in dplyr and data.table

• The Quickest Way to Add New Apps to ShinyProxy

• %in% and %notin% operators in R

• Well Well Well my Excel

• How to Calculate Mahalanobis Distance in R

• A Common Mistake in Data Analysis (in Psychology/Linguistics): Subsetting data to carry out nested analyses - Part 1, Part 2

• Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R is now complete

• Machine Learning Strategy (Part 2)

• Some Covid Donuts To End The Week

• How to Calculate Cross-Correlation in R

• Fast(?) cubic beziers at variable resolution

• Old ‘Hood, New ‘Hood

• Posterior predictive sampling and other post-MCMC use of samples in NIMBLE

• How to Calculate Cosine Similarity in R

• torch: Just-in-time compilation (JIT) for R-less model deployment

• Fragment: Tools of Production – ggalt and encircling scatterplot points in R and Python

• How to Create Pareto Chart in R

• Fitting your model is only the beginning: Bayesian posterior probability checks with rvars

• Introducing the Redwall ‘Red Flag’ Explorer with New Constructs Data

• Fast SQL Server Imports with R

• Using R: plyr to purrr, part 1

• How to Create a Matrix in R with Examples – empty, zeros

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• satRday Nairobi: September 4

• satRday Columbus, Ohio: October 2

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

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Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

✅ Achievement unlocked: 1 year's worth of @rweekly_org Highlights podcasts! https://t.co/sU7BxbM0FT
📱 Creating mobile-first #shiny apps @skyetetra
📦 {gitlabr} 2.0.0 @StatnMap
✍️ Reproducible work with #rstats #docker @rsangole

h/t @R_by_Ryo 🙏

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