R Weekly 2021-W17 Wikidata, knitr, Top 40 New CRAN packages

26 Apr 2021

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

Highlight

• What does Wikidata know about members of the European Parliament?

• New in knitr: Improved accessibility with image alt text

• March 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

Insights

• March 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• New in knitr: Improved accessibility with image alt text

• What is the Tukey loss function?

• Short-circuit evaluation of boolean operations in R

• drat 0.2.0: Now with ‘docs/’

• Rblpapi 0.3.11: Several Updates

• SwimmeR goes to the Para Games and other Updates - v0.9.0

• Tidygeocoder 1.0.3 new features

• New in haven 2.4.0

• New in recipes 0.1.16

R in the Real World

• Can we rely on synthetic data to overcome data governance issue in healthcare?

• Recidivism: Identifying the Most Important Predictors for Re-offending with OneR

• FPL Point Projection in R – Part 2

R in Academia

• Feature Engineering of the Gamma Region for Machine Learning Identification of Monoclonal Proteins

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {lookup} 1.0: Functions similar to VLOOKUP in Excel.

• {preferably} 0.3.0: A {pkgdown} accessible template with support for dynamic light/dark mode.

• {PooledCohort} 0.0.1: Predict 10-Year Risk for Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

• {circle} 0.7.1: R Client Package for Circle CI

• {sportyR} 1.0.1: Plot Scaled ‘ggplot’ Representations of Sports Playing Surfaces

• {tidywikidatar} 0.2.0: Query ‘Wikidata’ with ease, get tidy data frames in response, and cache data in a local ‘SQLite’ database.

Updated Packages

• {terrainr} 0.4.0: Landscape Visualizations in R and ‘Unity’

• {knitr} 1.33: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R

• {predictrace} 2.0.0: Predict the Race and Gender of a Given Name Using Census and Social Security Administration Data

• {haven} 2.4.1: Import and Export ‘SPSS’, ‘Stata’ and ‘SAS’ Files

• {taxonomizr} 0.7.1: Functions to Work with NCBI Accessions and Taxonomy

• {fontawesome} 0.2.1: Easily Work with ‘Font Awesome’ Icons

• {rPanglaoDB} 0.2.0: Download and Merge Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data from the PanglaoDB Database

• {cronologia} 0.2.0: Create an HTML Vertical Timeline from a Data Frame in ‘rmarkdown’ and ‘shiny’

• {drake} 7.13.2: A Pipeline Toolkit for Reproducible Computation at Scale

• {ggplotify} 0.0.6: Convert Plot to ‘grob’ or ‘ggplot’ Object

• {badger} 0.1.0: Badge for R Package

• {reticulate} 1.19: Interface to ‘Python’

• {flashlight} 0.8.0: Shed Light on Black Box Machine Learning Models

Videos and Podcasts

• Fun with R — Lightning Talks — R-Ladies East Lansing & Chicago

• R package development — Maelle Salmon — R-Ladies East Lansing & Chicago

• Writing R Functions — Stephanie Kirmer — R-Ladies Chicago & East Lansing

• Data Science in Education Using R Book Club Chapter 13

• Claus Wilke- The extendr project: Integrating R and Rust

Tutorials

• Dockerizing and Deploying a Shiny Dashboard on Google Cloud

• Which #TidyTuesday Netflix titles are movies and which are TV shows?

• Visualizing Nine Years on LinkedIn using R

• What does Wikidata know about members of the European Parliament?

• Dealing with non-representative samples with post-stratification

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Quotes of the Week

Because I'm completely ridiculous, the process of trying to sort baby clothes in our dresser came to its natural conclusion: creating a Shiny app to help us keep track of what baby clothes we have, filterable by age and type. #rstats pic.twitter.com/hOnoVJz2xj

— Isaac Maddow-Zimet (@Imaddowzimet) April 18, 2021

ggiraph + shiny is fantastic!
~30 lines of code.#dataviz #rstats pic.twitter.com/cEsK4PFROx

— Claus Wilke (@ClausWilke) April 20, 2021