R Weekly 2021-W27

05 Jul 2021

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

Highlight

• Draw me a project

• Improving a Visualization

Insights

• Q2 2021 tidymodels digest

• Draw me a project

• Stephan Kadauke from R/Medicine talks to R Consortium about Racial Bias

• Reasons to Use Tidymodels

R in the Real World

• Analyzing your run data with R

• Euro 2020: Will Switzerland kick out Spain too?

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {archive} 1.0.0: Multi-Format Archive and Compression Support

• {potools} 0.2.0: Tools for Internationalization and Portability in R Packages

• {rgoogleads} 0.1.1: Loading Data from ‘Google Ads API’

• {swissdd} 1.1.3: Get Swiss Federal and Cantonal Vote Results from Opendata.swiss

Updated Packages

• {gargle} 1.2.0: Utilities for Working with Google APIs

• {libr} 1.2.0: Libraries, Data Dictionaries, and a Data Step for R

• {metathis} 1.1.1: HTML Metadata Tags for ‘R Markdown’ and ‘Shiny’

• {qrcode} 0.1.3: Generate QRcodes with R

• {samc} 1.4.0: Spatial Absorbing Markov Chains

• {sftrack} 0.5.3: Modern Classes for Tracking and Movement Data

• {shinyvalidate} 0.1.1: Input Validation for Shiny Apps

• {vapour} 0.6.5: Lightweight Access to the ‘Geospatial Data Abstraction Library’ (‘GDAL’)

Videos and Podcasts

• Visualizing Time Series in R - Moving Averages using tidyquant::geom_ma()

Tutorials

• Improving a Visualization

• Feature Importance in Random Forest

• Spatially weighted averages in R with sf

• R v4.1.0 - {grid} graphics new feature - patterns

• How to Create a Violin plot in R with ggplot2 and Customize it

• Create a custom metric with tidymodels and NYC Airbnb prices

• Tired: PCA + kmeans, Wired: UMAP + GMM

• Running R code in a Linux bash terminal

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

• Summer Conferences!

Call for Participation

• R user or R Developer? Your opinion matters.

• Want to learn advanced RStudio configuration, Shiny Apps, or scRNAseq with R? Join the Summer workshops of CDSB 2021!

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Quotes of the Week

Mind blown. Not only does GitHub copilot "know" R syntax, it also "knows" how to do data analysis. #rstats pic.twitter.com/iG8k2jvYDF

— David Smith (@revodavid) July 1, 2021

🧵 Daily maximum temperatures in #Portland from 1938–2021, colored by year.

Inspired by @nytimes and comments on their #dataviz, here are some charts illustrating the severe #HeatWave2021 🌡️ that currently shatters #USA and #Canada.

Created💯% in #rstats and #ggplot2. (1/7) pic.twitter.com/mP6BCU5oJ0

— Cédric Scherer 💉 (@CedScherer) June 30, 2021