R Weekly 2021-W12 {gt} cookbook, best weather cities, mapping over many files

22 Mar 2021

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

Highlight

• The GT Cookbook

• Cities with Best (and Worst) Weather, 2021 edition

• How to treat as many files as fit on your hard disk without loops (sorta) nor running out of memory all the while being as lazy as possible

Insights

• The Rise and Fall: impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on bioRxiv preprints

• How to treat as many files as fit on your hard disk without loops (sorta) nor running out of memory all the while being as lazy as possible

• Virtual Windows machine for checking R packages

• SQLite is great for R and Shiny. The dbmisc package may help a bit.

• Cupid’s Arrow: How to Boost your Chances at Speed Dating!

• Simplifying geospatial features in R with sf and rmapshaper

• Framework for power analysis using simulation

• Estimating pi with Monte Carlo simulation

• From multinomial regression to binary classification on some Siamese data

• Software licensing

• Cities with Best (and Worst) Weather, 2021 edition

• How to Cite R Packages Like R Markdown

• When Less is More: Data Tables That Make a Difference

• RSQLite concurrency issues — solution included

Resources

• February 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {r6methods} 0.1.0: Generate get and set methods for R6 class fields.

• {pkgdepends} 0.1.0: Package Dependency Resolution and Downloads

• ‘nestr’ - an R package for building nested structures

• {spotidy} 0.1.0: Providing Convenience Functions to Connect R with the Spotify API

• {sfnetworks} 0.5.0: a tidy approach to spatial network analysis.

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Introducing ‘fugly’ - fast regular expression substring extraction with named capture groups

• ‘twitchr’ - interact with the Twitch API to extract basic public data!

• {ascorthemes}: Xaringan slide themes for ASCoR (University of Amsterdam)

Updated Packages

• New Version of the Package “Vecsets” is on CRAN

• {gghilbertstrings}: Create Hilbert curves in ggplot2

• {box} 1.0.1: Write Reusable, Composable and Modular R Code

• {DALEX} 2.2.0: moDel Agnostic Language for Exploration and eXplanation

• {stars} 0.5-2: Spatiotemporal Arrays, Raster and Vector Data Cubes

• {sf} 0.9-8: Simple Features for R

• {ragg} 1.1.2: Graphic Devices Based on AGG

• {odbc} 1.3.1: Connect to ODBC Compatible Databases (using the DBI Interface)

• {duckdb} 0.2.5: DBI Package for the DuckDB Database Management System

• {fitzRoy} 1.0.0: Easily Scrape and Process AFL Data

Videos and Podcasts

• R in Pharma X-Session Recordings

• rstudio::global(2021) X-Session recordings

Gist & Cookbook

• The GT Cookbook

Shiny Apps

• Running pace calculator in R Shiny

R Internationally

• Análisis de Encuestas con R - (Survey analysis with R)

• 🍭データフレームからランダムにデータを抽出したい

Tutorials

• regplane3D: Plotting 3D regression predictions in R

• Update to Code for case study - Customer Churn with Keras/TensorFlow and H2O

• torch time series, take three: Sequence-to-sequence prediction

• torch time series, final episode: Attention

• Florence Nightingale’s “rose charts” (and others) in ggplot2

• Age Bias Plots Using ggplot

• k-Means 101: An introductory guide to k-Means clustering in R

• Applying design guidelines to slides with {xaringanthemer}

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• March 5 - May 21: TIER Symposium on instruction in resproducible research

• March 22 Why R Webinar - Analysing Political Speeches in R - some approaches

• March 23 LondonR March Workshop 2021

• May 3rd: Hackathon sponsored by NanoString Technologies

• May 14th: Time to get your Shiny on, Shiny Contest 2021 is here!

• May 26-28: NIMBLE virtual short course

• June 1: “Introduction to R” pre-conference workshop for PuG (German)

• June 1: “Reproducibility in R” pre-conference workshop for PuG

• A list of R and R-adjacent conferences in 2021

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Call for Participation

• March 2021 ISC Call for Proposals – Now Open!

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

#RStats battles pic.twitter.com/d7W5p1TduA

— mikefc (@coolbutuseless) March 19, 2021

In 2012, a statistics professor told me not to learn R because it wouldn’t be around long.

I think about this a lot.#rstats

— Kayla Williamson (she/her) (@kaymwilliamson) March 17, 2021

It's the third episode of SLICED, #TidyTuesday edition, tonight!!! 🔪

4⃣ four contestants (chaos!) 😈
2⃣ two Python 🐍 2⃣ two #rstats
1⃣ one #TidyTuesday dataset 🎮
1⃣ one live coding modeling challenge 📈

Check us out at 8:30PM ET! https://t.co/jMUw9e2Tyo

— Meg Risdal 👾 (@MeganRisdal) March 16, 2021