R Weekly 2021-W16 rOpenSci News, Process Mining, ggirl

19 Apr 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

• rOpenSci News Digest, April 2021

• {ggirl} 1.0.1: An R package that lets you make ggplots in real life

• Process Mining in 10 minutes with R

Insights

• rOpenSci News Digest, April 2021

• Latest news from the R Markdown family

• Impressions from New Zealand’s R Exchange

Resources

• Announcing ‘Introductions to Emacs Speaks Statistics’

• R-Charts: A collection of charts and graphs made with the R programming language

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {cheatsheet} 0.1.0: Download R Cheat Sheets Locally

• {cxr} 1.0.0: A Toolbox for Modelling Species Coexistence in R

• {diffmatchpatch} 0.1.0: String Diff, Match, and Patch Utilities

• {gm} 1.0.2: Generate Music Easily and Show Anywhere

• {r5r} 0.4.0: Rapid Realistic Routing with ‘R5’

• {report} 0.3.0: Automated Reporting of Results and Statistical Models

Updated Packages

• {clock} 0.2.0: Date-Time Types and Tools

• {esquisse} 1.0.0: Explore and Visualize Your Data Interactively

• {golem} 0.3.1: A Framework for Robust Shiny Applications

• {idbr} 1.0: R Interface to the US Census Bureau International Data Base API

• {noisyr} 1.0.0: Noise Quantification in High Throughput Sequencing Output

• {Microsoft365R} 2.1.0: With Outlook support now on CRAN

Videos and Podcasts

• Which #TidyTuesday post offices are in Hawaii?

• TidyX Episode 56: MLB Pitch Classification - XGBoost

Shiny Apps

• {ggirl} 1.0.1: An R package that lets you make ggplots in real life

• GooglyPlusPlus2021 with IPL 2021, as-it-happens!

Tutorials

• Process Mining in 10 minutes with R

• {hagr} Linnaean Classification

• An Alternative to the Correlation Coefficient That Works For Numeric and Categorical Variables

• How to Do the Brown-Forsythe Test in R: A Step-By-Step Example

• Have you checked your features distributions lately?

• Backtesting Options Strategies with R

• Quick Hit: Processing macOS Application Metadata Weirdly Fast with mdls and R

• Generating random lists of names with errors to explore fuzzy word matching

• Check ‘Developer Tools’ First To Avoid Heavy-ish Dependencies

• Is the EPL getting more unequal?

• Violation of Proportional Odds is Not Fatal

• Using IPUMS USA for Estimation of Population Characteristics in Various Geographic Areas

• Formatting Migration Recall Data For Longitudinal Analysis

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

Datasets

• {childdevdata} 1.1.0: Milestone data from ten studies in child development

• {VulnToolkit} 1.1.2: Analysis of Tidal Datasets

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

In an age where virtual assistant programs have become ubiquitous, you may also wish to have one that helps you find solutions to common ggplot formatting problems.

The {gghelp} function {ggx} mimics behavior of such an assistant 📝https://t.co/6VQzRqbrgp#rstats #DataScience pic.twitter.com/esK1W6xMEj

— R Function A Day (@rfunctionaday) April 15, 2021

Slides on redundant coding.https://t.co/miqrLROikZ#rstats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/m1H34F2Zuk

— Claus Wilke (@ClausWilke) April 14, 2021