R Weekly 2021-10 Serverless dashboards, tidy eval and dplyr, Bootstrap confidence intervals

08 Mar 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

• Server(shiny)-less dashboards with R, {htmlwidgets} and {crosstalk}

• Learning tidy eval by re-implementing dplyr

• Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Super Bowl Commercials

Insights

• #TheMoment tweets (citizen-statistician.org)

• A first look at the R-Universe Build Infrastructure

• R functions I took for granted

• Afterthoughts of e-Rum2020 in The R Journal

• Learning tidy eval by re-implementing dplyr

• Packages Don’t Work Well for Analyses in Practice

• Intuition for randomization tests

R in the Real World

• (Spanish) Comparing Marvel and DC Comics

• Covid-19 and Brazil

• Covid-19 in Luxembourg

• Analyzing women’s contraceptive use

• Exploring Wednesday Night Cable Ratings with OCR

• Today is World Wildlife Day & this year's theme highlights the central role of forests in sustaining the livelihoods of billions of people worldwide. My map shows % of land area under trees for ex-Yugoslavia space#WorldWildlifeDay #dataviz #bigdata #datascience #rstats #maps pic.twitter.com/Fu0CNGaFLJ

  — Milos Popovic/Милош Поповић (@milos_agathon) March 3, 2021

• My @BES_Move_SIG dynamic movement visualisation contribution. Bar-tailed godwits migration in relation to wind and snow cover. All done in #RStats with #rayshader. Thanks to Jesse Conklin and Phil Battley for sharing the tracks. R code: https://t.co/lNB327SSkj pic.twitter.com/V8vby2N7pd

  — Simeon Lisovski (@S_Lisovski) February 14, 2021

R in Organizations

R in Academia

Resources

• (book) Tree phenology analysis with R (by Eike Luedeling)

• (slides) JavaScript + Shiny (by Jonathan Trattner)

• (workshop materials) Data.table workshop at EcoDataScience

• (template gallery) {rticles} templates for journal publications

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {appler} 0.1.0: ‘Apple App Store’ and ‘iTunes’ Data Extraction

• {basifoR} 0.3: Retrieval and Processing of the Spanish National Forest Inventory

• {bdots} 1.0.0: Bootstrapped Differences of Time Series

• {dadjokeapi} 1.0.2: Return a Random Dad Joke

• {drawer} 0.1.0: An Interactive HTML Image Editing Tool

• {EasyDescribe} 0.1.0: A Convenient Way of Descriptive Statistics

• {HyperG} 1.0.0: Hypergraphs in R

• {mapsf} 0.1.1: Thematic Cartography

• {ondisc} 1.0.0: Fast, Universal, and Intuitive Computing on Large-Scale Single-Cell Data

• {opitools} 1.0.2: A Tool for Analyzing Opinions in a Text Document

• {ppsr 0.0.2}: Computing the Predictive Power Score

• {prompt} 1.0.0: Dynamic ‘R’ Prompt

• {sfaR} 0.0.91: Stochastic Frontier Analysis using R

• {smmR} 1.0.0: Simulation, Estimation and Reliability of Semi-Markov Models

• {statgenHTP} 1.0.0: High Throughput Phenotyping (HTP) Data Analysis

• {urlchecker} 1.0.0: Run CRAN URL Checks from Older R Versions

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {bird_colours} - bird inspired palettes

• {splash} - for h2o MOJO files

Updated Packages

• {blogdown} 1.2: Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown

• {drawsample} 1.0.0: Draw Samples with the Desired Properties from a Data Set

• {evclust} 2.0.0: Evidential Clustering

• {farver} 2.1.0: High Performance Colour Space Manipulation

• {googlesheets4} 0.3.0: Access Google Sheets using the Sheets API V4

• {ggforce} 0.3.3: Accelerating ‘ggplot2’

• {ggfx}: Updated raster placement

• {ggVennDiagram} 0.5.0: A ‘ggplot2’ Implement of Venn Diagram

• {Hmisc} 4.5-0: Harrell Miscellaneous

• {logger} 0.2.0: A Lightweight, Modern and Flexible Logging Utility

• {mlr3} 0.11.0: Updated with book draft

• {ShinyQuickStarter} 2.0.0: ‘RStudio’ Addin for Building Shiny Apps per Drag & Drop

• {slackr} 2.2.0: Send Messages, Images, R Objects and Files to ‘Slack’ Channels/Users

• {tinytex} 0.30: Helper Functions to Install and Maintain TeX Live, and Compile LaTeX Documents

• {xaringan} 0.20: Presentation Ninja

• {xaringanthemer} 0.3.3: Custom ‘xaringan’ CSS Themes

Videos and Podcasts

• Consistency is Key: A case study in R syntaxes

• Hierarchical time series forecasting tutorial

• “In the Beginning was R Markdown” - Toronto Conference on Reproducibility Keynote Address

• A quick tour of RStudio 1.4

• Compute bootstrap confidence intervals for Super Bowl commercial characteristics (#TidyTuesday)

• [TidyX Episode 50

  James Stein Estimates, GT tables with patchwork](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WtDWE0UbQg)

• Mini-demo: CSS and R Markdown

• Mini-demo: set a password in R Markdown

Gist & Cookbook

Shiny Apps

• (Spanish) Covid graphics

• Search NICAR tweets

• Hypothesis testing tutorial

• Server(shiny)-less dashboards with R, {htmlwidgets} and {crosstalk}

• A tiny {shiny} flag challenge

R Internationally

Tutorials

• Bootstrap confidence intervals for #TidyTuesday Super Bowl commercials

• Data.table - Everything you need to know to get started

• Bivariate dasymetric mapping

• Automating R Markdown reporting

• Raster calculations on stars objects: Species richness maps from species distribution models

• Clustering similar spatial patterns

• Data exploration with {DataExplorer}

• Tile maps in R

• (French) Working with Git in RStudio

• Time Series Forecasting with XGBoost and Feature Importance

• The {mapsf} package

aRt

by Toni Emery

by Brandyn Lucca

by Georgios Karamanis

by Danielle Navarro

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• March 10: Making Extra Great Slides with xaringan, xaringanthemer and xaringanExtra

• March 11: WhyR weekly webinar (topic TBD)

• March 17: Interactive maps with Leaflet

• March 18: The role of Data Journalism in the Covid-19 pandemic

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

• 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

Datasets

• Every email newsletter from the House and Senate since 2010

Jobs and Funding

• RStudio Summer Internships 2021

• Software Engineer, mlverse, RStudio

• R Consortium user group and small conference support

• R for the Rest of Us - Inclusivity scholarship

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

After being uncharacteristically cooperative yesterday #Rstats is back to choosing violence. pic.twitter.com/ojZhvaOkfj

— Chuck “Chuck” Bangley (@SpinyDag) March 4, 2021

There once was a marvelous system
For merging out-put with words written
R Markdown's the name
And stats coding fame
Comes about by a process of knitting

— Nick Barrowman (@nbarrowman) March 4, 2021

1/2 Chaos from the Lorenz attractor (aka, the strange attractor) rendered with #rstats + #rayrender. Small differences in the initial position lead to completely different trajectories down the line, otherwise known as the butterfly effect.

Full path:https://t.co/hFNzLMihym pic.twitter.com/ImDufcOCzP

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) March 4, 2021