R Weekly 2021-W32 Mobile-Friendly Shiny Apps, {gitlabr}, Reproducible R & Docker

09 Aug 2021

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

Highlight

• Making Shiny apps mobile friendly

• {gitlabr} 2.0.0: Access to the ‘Gitlab’ API.

• How to setup a reproducible workflow in R and Docker

Insights

• R in Healthcare Meetup Q&A

• R Views Call for Documentation

• Beginning a ggplot2 Series: Logarithmize Your Scales

R in the Real World

• Making Shiny apps mobile friendly

• A world map of all Olympics medals by place of birth of the athletes who won them through Wikipedia and Wikidata

• Building datasets of legislators using Wiki

Resources

• NCAA shot type distribution plot (recreation)

• Olympic Wins viz

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {OmicNavigator}: A tool for interactive exploration of the results from ‘omics’ experiments to facilitate novel discoveries from high-throughput biology

• {bcputility} 0.1.0: Provides functions to utilize a command line utility that does bulk inserts and exports from SQL Server databases.

• {bigrquery} 1.4.0: An interface to Google’s BigQuery from R.

• {rbokeh} 0.5.2: R Interface for Bokeh.

• {mcvis} 1.0.8: Multi-Collinearity Visualization.

• {refineR} 1.0.0: Reference Interval Estimation using Real-World Data.

• {handwriter} 1.0.0: Handwriting Analysis in R.

• {edgebundle} 0.2.0: Algorithms for Bundling Edges in Networks and Visualizing Flow and Metro Maps.

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {opendatascot} 0.0.0.9000: An R package to pull data from statistics.gov.scot into R.

• {dehex} 0.0.0.9000: R package: learn to assess a colour hex code by eye.

• {paint} 0.0.0.9000: Paint the data.

• {bounceR} 0.0.0.9000: Provides a set of functions to extract the Hawkeye statistics from the ICC and BCCI webpages.

Updated Packages

• {terrainr} 0.5.0: Landscape Visualizations in R and Unity.

• {RcppAnnoy} 0.0.19: Rcpp bindings for Annoy.

• {gitlabr} 2.0.0: Access to the ‘Gitlab’ API.

• {meta} 4.19-0: General Package for Meta-Analysis.

• {rmarkdown} 2.10: Dynamic Documents for R.

• {tinytex} 0.33: Helper Functions to Install and Maintain TeX Live, and Compile LaTeX Documents.

• {vroom} 1.5.4: Read and Write Rectangular Text Data Quickly.

Videos and Podcasts

• How I integrated TailwindCSS and RMarkdown

• Cleaning Excel Data Using R

• Tune xgboost with early stopping to predict shelter animal status

• SLICED Competition Lap 3: Live Screencast

Shiny Apps

• R Shiny interface for the OANDA fxTrade API in {ichimoku}

• (Soccer) Player Replacement Shortlist Generator

Tutorials

• Sliced – New York Air BnB

• How to setup a reproducible workflow in R and Docker

• parallel grid search cross-validation using crossvalidation

• Logging in R and C++ (Rcpp) code

• Getting geo data into SQL Server using API and R

• Update Existing Shiny Apps in ShinyProxy

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

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Quick, what's inside that data frame? Hold down Ctrl (Cmd on macOS) and click on the name of an object in the editor to view its contents. #rstats pic.twitter.com/6E86M55jLH

— RStudio Tips (@rstudiotips) August 2, 2021

Creating tables in #rstats markdown always felt cumbersome. Until now, as I have tried the RStudio Visual Editor for the first time. The '/' search function makes the experience an absolute joy! Learn more here: https://t.co/zKWlyX9Rpp pic.twitter.com/LaYNMOGV4L

— Lars Schöbitz (@larnsce) August 6, 2021

Playing around with the {arrow} package.

Working with a directory of 22,000 csvs, and it doesn't even bat an eyelash.

Pretty neat I can run most #dplyr commands on it. #RStats

— Ted Laderas, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 (@tladeras) August 4, 2021

The tidyverse team is taking next week (Aug 9-13) off. Time away is so important for sustainable open source maintenance; we all need a break to recharge. You won’t hear from us on GitHub next week, but we look forward to working with y’all again when we get back! #rstats

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) August 6, 2021