R Weekly 2020-46 Open Acces, YAPOEH, Docker

16 Nov 2020

Release Date: 2020-11-16

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This week’s release was curated by Colin Fay, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• Using Open-Access Tools (rentrez, taxize) to Find Coronaviruses, Their Genetic Sequences, and Their Hosts

• YAPOEH! (Yet another post on error handling)

• How to develop inside a Docker container to ease collaboration?

Insights

• Using Open-Access Tools (rentrez, taxize) to Find Coronaviruses, Their Genetic Sequences, and Their Hosts

• Round about the kernel

• Web Frameworks for R – A Brief Overview

• Code Is Poetry, but GIFs Are Divine: Writing Effective Technical Instruction

• Installing V8 is now even easier

R in the Real World

• NHS-R Community – Computer Vision Classification – How it can aid clinicians – Malaria cell case study with R

• Benford’s Law and Census Data

Resources

• NYC R Meetup: Slides on Future

• Marvelous RMarkdown

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• tidyCpp 0.0.2: More documentation and features

• mlr3spatiotempcv: Initial CRAN release

• Installing V8 is now even easier

• poorman: Versions 0.2.2 and 0.2.3 Releases

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {emphatic} v0.1.3 - highlight data.frame output with ANSI - Added legends & support for vectors

• lmDiallel: a new R package to fit diallel models. Introduction

• {washoku}: Extra ‘recipes’ for Japanese Text, Date and Address Processing.

Updated Packages

• Insetting a new patchwork version

Videos and Podcasts

• Why R Webinar - R on AWS

• Tidy Tuesday live screencast: Analyzing historical phones in R

Gist & Cookbook

• Evidence-based software engineering: book released

Shiny Apps

• The Appsilon shiny.semantic PoContest

• “My Little Crony”: A visualization of the connections between Tory politicians and companies being awarded government contracts during the pandemic, based on reporting by openDemocracy, Byline Times, and more.

• Data visualisation of the Public Development Banks’ (PDBs) database.

R Internationally

• Tableaux interactifs avec R pour Shiny et vos pages web

Tutorials

• Comparing Common Operations in dplyr and data.table

• How to develop inside a Docker container to ease collaboration?

• Little useless-useful R functions – Play rock-paper-scissors with your R engine

• Create Bart Simpson Blackboard Memes with R

• Browse and Search Liked Tweets Using R

• Exploring the properties of a Bayesian model using high performance computing

• Scrapping Websites and Building a Large Dataset with SwimmeR

• YAPOEH! (Yet another post on error handling)

• Converting XML data to R dataframes with xmlconvert

• Kepa R-izabalaga and Edou-R-d Mendy: an intro to football stats, FBref, and coding in R

• Insetting a new patchwork version

• Some notes when using dot-dot-dot (…) in R

• Play Zork in RStats

• Fast Class-Agnostic Data Manipulation in R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Preview: satRday Columbus

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

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Quotes of the Week

This week I discovered that R has functions for Roman numerals and I think is super cool! #FunctionFriday #RStats pic.twitter.com/J55BzODfS9

— Georgios Karamanis (@geokaramanis) November 13, 2020