R Weekly 2021-W06

08 Feb 2021

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This week’s release was curated by Tony ElHabr, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• Shiny 1.6: Theming, Caching, Accessibility

• Remote Pair Programming in R Using Visual Studio Code and Live Share

• Lists are my secret weapon for reporting stats with knitr

Insights

• Some thoughts on rstudio::global talks

R in the Real World

• Remote Pair Programming in R Using Visual Studio Code and Live Share

• Lists are my secret weapon for reporting stats with knitr

• An analysis of the CRAN submission queue

• Visualising stock prices and volume by @ellis2013nz

• Gunslingers and Game Managers (American football)

• Word network of Bioconductor packages

R in Organizations

• targets: Democratizing Reproducible Analysis Pipelines

R in Academia

• Network trees: networktree 1.0.0, web page, and Psychometrika paper

Resources

• Learn tidytext with my new learnr course

• Cracking and packing: a simple gerrymander simulation

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {redoc} 2.0.0.49: Generates ‘Redoc’ Documentation from an ‘OpenAPI’ Specification
• {rapidoc} 8.4.3: Generates ‘RapiDoc’ Documentation from an ‘OpenAPI’ Specification
• {ridge} 2.9: Ridge Regression with Automatic Selection of the Penalty Parameter
• {spatstat.linnet} 1.65-3: Linear Networks Functionality of the ‘spatstat’ Package
• {tarchetypes} 0.0.4: Archetypes for Targets
• {cronologia} 0.1.0: Create an HTML Vertical Timeline from a Data Frame in ‘rmarkdown’ and ‘shiny’
• {motif} 0.4.1: Local Pattern Analysis
• {sassy} 1.0.3: Makes ‘R’ Easier for ‘SAS®’ Programmers
• {hockeystick} 0.4.0: Download and Visualize Essential Climate Change Data
• {RcppFastFloat} 0.0.1: ‘Rcpp’ Bindings for the ‘fast_float’ Header-Only Library for Number Parsing

Updated Packages

• Shiny 1.6: Theming, Caching, Accessibility

• {rms} 6.1-1: Regression Modeling Strategies
• {feasts} 0.1.7: Feature Extraction and Statistics for Time Series
• {officedown} 0.2.1: Enhanced ‘R Markdown’ Format for ‘Word’ and ‘PowerPoint’
• {flextable} 0.6.3: Functions for Tabular Reporting
• {bipartite} 2.16: Visualising Bipartite Networks and Calculating Some (Ecological) Indices
• {rgdal} 1.5-23: Bindings for the ‘Geospatial’ Data Abstraction Library
• {spatstat.core} 1.65-5: Core Functionality of the ‘spatstat’ Package
• {targets} 0.1.0: Dynamic Function-Oriented ‘Make’-Like Declarative Workflows
• {duckdb} 0.2.4: DBI Package for the DuckDB Database Management System
• {vitae} 0.4.1: Curriculum Vitae for R Markdown
• {shinyWidgets} 0.5.7: Custom Inputs Widgets for Shiny
• {mlr3proba} 0.3.1: Probabilistic Supervised Learning for ‘mlr3’
• {wrapr} 2.0.7: Wrap R Tools for Debugging and Parametric Programming

Videos and Podcasts

• How to apply check boxes, drop-down fields, and sliders to explore data without Shiny: plotly, crosstalk, and bscols()

Shiny Apps

• A dashboard for estimating house sale prices in Pittsburgh PA. Built with {shiny} and {tidymodels}.

R Internationally

• Être un•e utilisateur•rice de R résilient•e (diapos)

Tutorials

• Removing image backgrounds with magick

• Star Trek: The Next Generation catchphrases

• Simple audio classification with torch

• Forecasting El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

• Let’s grow trees - the fast way to create and visualise Decision Trees using {explore}

• Introduction to leaflegend: Map Symbols and Legend Styling for leaflet

• Amazon Athena {dbplyr} Implicit Usage of Presto Functions and Making JSON Casting Great Again

• Adding Football Crests to Scatter Plots in R

• Partisan metrics: some notes

• All You Need To Know About Merging (Joining) Datasets in R

• Levies, Tax and the Fuel Price in South Africa

• How to muffle warnings and to restart (all over)

• Pattern-based spatial analysis in R: an introduction

• How to draw a map of arbitrary contiguous regions, or visualizing the spread of COVID-19 in the Greater Region

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Jobs

• Data Librarian/Analyst - EcoHealth Alliance

Call for Participation

• 28th Feb: Upcoming Why R Webinar - Efficient computation with R

• 15th Mar: useR2021 Call for Abstracts

• 31st Mar: EARL 2021 Call for Abstracts

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Quotes of the Week

🚀 Happy to release tidy.js today on npm. Inspired by the tidyverse and dplyr, tidy.js aims to bring the ergonomics of data wrangling from #Rstats to the js (and typescript) community.

site: https://t.co/faolPmwy8v (+ playground)
repo: https://t.co/eOJnNGelnV pic.twitter.com/cwEYCRb3JB

— Peter Beshai (@pbesh) February 2, 2021

INTERPRETABILITY, ACCESSABILITY, TIDY CODE, GRAPHICS, AESTHETICS, BRANDING, COMMUNICATION, TALKING TO PEOPLE SMARTER THAN YOU , SOCIAL MEDIA IT ALL MATTERS

— Asmae Toumi (@asmae_toumi) February 5, 2021