R Weekly 2021-21 R 4.1.0 and the native pipe, package documentation, evolution of a ggplot

24 May 2021

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

Highlight

• New features in R 4.1.0

• Package documentation: What makes a good example?

• Evolution of a ggplot

Insights

• New features in R 4.1.0

• There are now 3 different R pipes

• Brazil’s R Community is Vibrant and Active

• Random forest importance measures are NOT important

• Rookie R mistakes

• Package documentation: What makes a good example?

• Aesthetic order matters in ggplot

R in the Real World

R in Organizations

• The Economist AMA

R in Academia

Resources

• One-page guide to data science with R

• Visualization vocabulary

• Twitter thread on color palettes in R

• renv tips

• The Book of R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• ichimoku 0.1.2 Ichimoku Kinko Hyo cloud charts for technical analysis.

• {ggseg} 1.6.3: Plotting Tool for Brain Atlases.

• {spectre} 1.0.0: Predict Regional Community Composition

• {eff2} 1.0.0: Efficient Least Squares for Total Causal Effects

• {particle.swarm.optimisation} 1.0: Optimisation with Particle Swarm Optimisation

• {dialectR} 1.0: Doing Dialectometry in R

• {SimplyAgree} 0.0.2: Flexible and Robust Agreement and Reliability Analyses

• {frenchdata} 0.1.1: Download Data Sets from Kenneth’s French Finance Data Library Site

• {contact} 1.2.8: Creating Contact and Social Networks

• {wacolors} 0.2.1: Colorblind-Friendly Palettes from Washington State

• {autocart} 1.4.4: Autocorrelation Regression Trees

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

• TidyTuesdayAltText: Alternative text for media attached to TidyTuesday tweets

• xglue: Extended glue

• equatomatic: generate equation TeX automatically

• tayloRswift: color palette based on Taylor Swift albums

• hoopR: men’s basketball data

Updated Packages

• {tidycensus}: Load US Census boundary and attribute data as ‘tidyverse’ and ‘sf’-ready data frames in R.

• {SPOT} 2.5.0: Sequential Parameter Optimization Toolbox

• {plot3D} 1.4: Plotting Multi-Dimensional Data

• {leafpop} 0.1.0: Include Tables, Images and Graphs in Leaflet Pop-Ups

• {pkglite} 0.2.0: Compact Package Representations

Videos and Podcasts

• R 4.1.0: Base R Pipe Has Arrived! Use Cases, Benchmark vs. magrittr

• Progress Bars and Parallel Execution in R: progressr and future

• Computing on large text files with {readr}.

Gist & Cookbook

Shiny Apps

• Covid Tracker using shiny

• {FielDHub} 0.1.0: A Shiny App for Design of Experiments in Life Sciences

• Gallery of Rtistry projects

• Steam Explorer

R Internationally

• GFS Internacional Shiny App (Brazil)

• paletas colores

Tutorials

• Evolution of a ggplot

• Change multiple data frames inside a list

• Hex-style snowflake charts

• Securing Shiny Server with Caddy

• pipe operator in R-Simplify Your Code with %>%

• {statsExpressions} usage

• FDA descriptive statistics with R

• Accessing data with large online rasters

• Using tagQuery in {htmltools}

• {tidycensus} migration flows

• Chloropleths

• 10 Tips to Customize Text Color, Font, Size in ggplot2 with element_text()

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}”

• Zoom talk on “Building dashboards in R/shiny (and improve them with logs and user feedback)” from the Grenoble (FR) R user group (May 25)

• Learning Lab: Time Series Forecasting in Production (May 26)

Datasets

• {frenchdata} 0.1.1: Download Data Sets from Kenneth’s French Finance Data Library Site

Jobs

• https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2529027964/

Call for Participation

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Rtistry

Step outside, summertime's in bloom#rstats #maths #rtistry #generative pic.twitter.com/QT8ZqbwUYV

— Antonio Sánchez Chinchón (@aschinchon) May 22, 2021

First part of Folding Flow on @hicetnunc2000

Purple 1/1: https://t.co/Sx0wm9YQjB
Red 1/1: https://t.co/jG1CCf3bVH
Blue 1/1: https://t.co/52KjL00lzq
Green 10/10: https://t.co/hqNKSZiDms#generative #cryptoart #hicetnunc #CleanNFTs #NFTs #creativecoding pic.twitter.com/rrnCgmOaBo

— Thomas Lin Pedersen (@thomasp85) May 18, 2021

#RStats #rtistry I should fix this but need out of brain pic.twitter.com/NNABPNZbGP

— Dan Miller (@data_nurse) May 17, 2021

A chaotic mandala made with one point for every person on Earth. Full resolution image is here: https://t.co/o3JguTSqZD. #mathart #maydala #attractor #rtistry. pic.twitter.com/yGNbDGmzsD

— George Savva (@georgemsavva) May 16, 2021

• https://twitter.com/phgmanfro/status/1394780686419173379?s=20

Quotes of the Week

May the pipe wars begin #RStats pic.twitter.com/nyGxEvRukq

— Christopher McMaster (@DrCMcMaster) May 19, 2021

All of the die hards rn#rstats pic.twitter.com/kFv7PCAjn0

— Chad C Williams (@WilliamsNeuro) May 21, 2021

"5 hours of debugging can save you 5 minutes of reading documentation"- experienced programmers#RStats #programming pic.twitter.com/VcEWDn8bYU

— #RStats Question A Day (@data_question) May 21, 2021