R Weekly 2021-W14

05 Apr 2021

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

Highlight

• Exploring Other ggplot2 Geoms

• workflowsets 0.0.1

• The top 10 R errors, the 7th one will surprise you

Snippets

• plusquamperfect squares

• Package Development Update

• composition versus inversion

Insights

• The top 10 R errors, the 7th one will surprise you

• The case of three MAR mechanisms: when is multiple imputation mandatory?

• What does it take to do a t-test?

R in the Real World

• Making the Most of Mobility

• Rcpp now used by 2250 CRAN packages!

• Parrondo’s Paradox in Finance: Combine two Losing Investments into a Winner

• Using {biscale}, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} to make bivariate transit maps

• Long time, no see: Virtual Lunch Roulette

R in Organizations

• BI and Data Science: Deliver Insights Through Embedded Analytics

• Streamline - tidy data as a service

R in Academia

• Ten Years vs The Spread II: Calculating publication lag times in R

Resources

• Comprehensive Date-Time Handling for R

• Not so soft softmax

• Dynamic Regression (ARIMA) vs. XGBoost

• Dataviz Nanopost: 360° VR Videos in R

• Deploy previews with Netlifly

• Sliding in Style

• The snake and the buttons for downloading data in R shiny

• Outlook client support in Microsoft365R available for beta test

• Tips & tricks when moving to Hugo

• An Environment for Reliably Rendering Figures in R

• Exploring Other ggplot2 Geoms

• The Easter Bunny is Cashing In

• The Futureverse

Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• x13binary 1.1.39-3 on CRAN: (Imperfect) Package Updates

• RcppSpdlog 0.0.5 on CRAN: New upstream versions

• workflowsets 0.0.1

• plumber 1.1.0

• {prewas} 1.1.1: Data Pre-Processing for Bacterial Genome-Wide Association

• {sasfunclust} 1.0.0: Sparse and Smooth Functional Clustering

• {sovereign} 1.0.0: State-Dependent Empirical Analysis

• {rbiorxiv} 0.2.1: Client for the ‘bioRxiv’ API

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {tarantino}: Color palettes based on Quentin Tarantino’s movies.

Videos and Podcasts

• Making R Markdown work better for you (Video) - Alison Hill (Cleveland R User Group)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Set Up Your Package To Foster A Community

• Last call for EARL Conference abstracts

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

Jobs

• Palmyra Atoll Data Scientist

• Computational Biologist

• Full-Time Data Specialist, Center for Reservoir and Aquatic Systems Research

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

One last shoutout to {targets} in #rstats. For this ISA paper I fully committed to using targets for everything and even in a not-that-complex research project the cognitive overhead that I got to automate was incredible—I used to have to keep track of all these nodes in my head! pic.twitter.com/mBC5Y7auoI

— Andrew Heiss (@andrewheiss) April 5, 2021

Regular reminder that the show_col() function in the {scales} library is indispensable #rstats pic.twitter.com/0e7ED28cVh

— Andrew Heiss (@andrewheiss) April 3, 2021

I’m looking for an R package that babysits my kids (1 & 3 yo) while I code. Any suggestions? #rstats

— Dr. Kira Hoffman (@kiramhoffman) April 1, 2021