R Weekly 2021-W22 Apple Health Export, CRAN

31 May 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

• Changes in Apple Health Export

• April 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

R in Organizations

• Bioconductor Asia Membership Increasing Due to Going Virtual

• (Re)Introducing the “Solutions” website

• rOpenSci’s R-universe Project

Videos and Podcasts

• SlimDevOps Episode 4 - Slimming R containers with Eric Nantz

R in the Real World

• R-Ladies Philly – Building our Online Community During the Pandemic

• Is COVID-19 Data Tampered?

• Changes in Apple Health Export

• Safe the New Internationalist’s stories webscraping and word clouds to see why independent journalism is worth protecting

• Mario Kart 64 World Records

• GooglyPlusPlus2021 is now fully interactive!!!

R in Academia

• Free High School Data Science Bootcamp - starting June 1, and lasting for four weeks. Designed for students attending under-resourced high schools, but all are welcome.

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• April 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• {reproducible} 1.2.7: A Set of Tools that Enhance Reproducibility Beyond Package Management

• {ggpp} 0.4.0: Grammar Extensions to ‘ggplot2’

Updated Packages

• {RcppArmadillo} 0.10.5.0.0: R and Armadillo via Rcpp

• {formatR} 1.10: Format R Code Automatically

• {arrow} 4.0.1: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’

Shiny Apps

• Steam Explorer

Tutorials

• Correlation in R ( NA friendliness, accepting matrix as input, returning p values, visualization, and Pearson vs Spearman)

• Double Machine Learning - An Easy Introduction in R

• Working with files and folders in R-Ultimate Guide

• do.call / lapply - a distinctive coding style

• Using {shiny.i18n} with {golem} for server-side translation

• File Transfer Based Publishing for Shiny Apps

• Choose your own tidymodels adventure

• Partial dependence plots with tidymodels and DALEX for #TidyTuesday Mario Kart world records

• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About ANOVA*

• When is it safe to plant your seedlings outside? Or: Should you consult the Saints or trust the data?

• A {swiftr} Brief Interlude While Awaiting {cdcfluview} CRAN Checks

• How and When to Control for Confounders During Product Usage Analyses

• datatable editor-DT package in R

• Using {tidygeocoder} to re-create the Minard’s map of Napoleon in Russia

• A comparison of terra and raster packages

• Using {pagedown} in Docker

• A forecasting tool (API) with examples in curl, R, Python

• Sometimes more data can hurt!

• Learning R: Creating Truth Tables

• Small gotcha when using negative indexing

• gghalves: Make Half Boxplot Half Dotplot Visualizations with ggplot2

• Towards not so ugly R code

• Replace filterD()

• Map Symbols and Size Legends for leaflet

• How to add R {magrittr}’s %>% Pipe Operator in VSCode as Keyboard Shortcut

• Introducing cvwrapr for your cross-validation needs

• Data Viz Competition: Mother & Daughter Team

• A shiny interface to BatchGetSymbols

• Replace fitPlot() with ggplot

• Centralizing your Analytics Infrastructure with eoda and Covestro

• Little useless-useful R functions – Looping through variable names and generating plots

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

• R Lille Meetup: “Reproducible Computation at Scale in R with {targets}”

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

🎖 This really is such a bookmark-worthy post:
📊 “The Evolution of a ggplot (Ep. 1)” by @CedScherer https://t.co/AL2AHY6FFt #rstats #dataviz
[GIF: shows each stage of evolution of the plot] pic.twitter.com/kxQ5R8JqfQ

— Mara Averick (@dataandme) May 25, 2021

So is using R just googling. “How to do this” and then spending 30+mins trying to adapt that code to your data?😕 #RStats #100DaysOfCode #AcademicChatter

— MaGatsheni🐘 (@kimistry8) May 27, 2021