R Weekly 2024-W32 Tidymodels, Positron

05 Aug 2024

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

Highlight

• Converting New York’s Forest Carbon Assessment to Tidymodels

• R package development in Positron

Insights

• R Consortium Grants Committee Announces New Chair

• Pharma RUG: The Rise of R in China’s Pharmaceutical Industry

R in Organizations

• Positron IDE - A new IDE for data science

• R package development in Positron

• All You Need to Know About Rhino 1.8 and 1.9 Updates: A Fireside Chat

R in Academia

• EpiLPS for estimation of incubation times

• Version 1.2.1 of NIMBLE released

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

• {maestro} 0.1.2: Orchestration of Data Pipelines

• {interfacer} 0.2.3: Define and Enforce Contracts for Dataframes as Function Parameters

• {LifemapR} 1.1.4: Data Visualisation on ‘Lifemap’ Tree

• {moocore} 0.1.0: Core Mathematical Functions for Multi-Objective Optimization

• {neotoma2} 1.0.4: Working with the Neotoma Paleoecology Database

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {usethis} 3.0.0: Automate Package and Project Setup - diffify

• {bslib} 0.8.0: Custom ‘Bootstrap’ ‘Sass’ Themes for ‘shiny’ and ‘rmarkdown’ - diffify

• {shiny} 1.9.1: Web Application Framework for R - diffify

• {cubar} 1.0.0: Codon Usage Bias Analysis - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Mastering Logistic Regression with Categorical Predictors: Always Positive Odds Ratios

• How to create a data only package with devtools

Tutorials

• Converting New York’s Forest Carbon Assessment to Tidymodels

• Stratified Sampling in R: A Practical Guide with Base R and dplyr

• Parallelize R code using user-defined functions (UDFs) in sparklyr

• Creating typewriter-styled images in R

• How to Interpret Interactions, Polynomials, and Splines with {marginaleffects}

• BlueSky Statistics Enhancements

• Spatial analysis with geostan

• {charcuterie} - What if Strings Were Iterable in R?

• Automate Your Blog Workflow with a Custom R Function: Creating QMD Files

• A subtle flaw in pull()

• 3MW (Reporting charts with {ggplot2})

• How to Write Tests with shiny::testServer Similar to shinytest2

• Object Oriented Programming in R (Part 4): Reference Classes & R6 Classes

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• R/Pharma APAC track

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• August 13~14: Registration for posit::conf(2024)’s virtual experience is now open

Datasets

• {collegeScorecard} 0.1.0: US College Scorecard Data

• {forested} 0.1.0: Forest Attributes in Washington State

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Quotes of the Week

Great news - the latest release of @posit_pbc's Positron IDE appears to support most #rstats interactive graphics, including interactive @Mapbox globes from {mapgl}!

Thanks to the Posit team!

Check out the new IDE here: https://t.co/cb86ldZ5pd pic.twitter.com/SwoThOGsv6

— Kyle Walker (@kyle_e_walker) July 29, 2024