R Weekly 2020-21 {projmgr}, {datadrivencv} & better xaringan

25 May 2020

Release Date: 2020-05-25

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

• How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly?

Highlight

• {projmgr}: Managing the human dependencies of your project

• {datadrivencv}: An R package for building your CV with data

• Better Progressive xaringan Slides with CSS and :last-of-type

Insights

• Web Scraping in the Statistics and Data Science Curriculum: Challenges and Opportunities

• Custom Package Repositories in R

• Non-standard files/directories, Rbuildignore and inst

R in the Real World

• COVID-19 in Belgium: is it over yet?

• HMD – Weekly Data

R in Organizations

• {projmgr}: Managing the human dependencies of your project

R in Academia

• Reproducible Research Data & Project Management in R

• When Field or Lab Work is not an Option - Leveraging Open Data Resources for Remote Research

• How to Make a Reproducible Paper - slides, code

Resources

• The meta-concepts of data analysis, workflows and projects in R.

• An R View into Epidemiology

• R as GIS for Economists

• From R to Gatsby

• How to publish a blog post on Wordpress using Rmarkdown

• Posting from .Rmd to dev.to

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {openmetrics}: An Opinionated Prometheus Client for R

• {rules 0.0.1}

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {datadrivencv}: An R package for building your CV with data

• {shadr}: GLSL shaders in R

Updated Packages

• {ggcharts 0.2.0}

• {RcppArmadillo 0.9.880.1.0}

Videos and Podcasts

• TidyX Screencast - #TidyTuesday Code Explained

• GGplot - Compound Interest With Data Science And R

• GET Hackernews Front Page Results using REST API in R

R Internationally

• Visualizing data using trelliscope on top of ggplot2 and plotly

Tutorials

• Migrating Themes and Overhauling the Rest (Hugo, blogdown)

• Big Data 7: yorkr waltzes with Apache NiFi

• Ordering bars within their clumps in a bar chart

• Using XGBoost with Tidymodels

• Riddler: Can You Solve This Rather Pedestrian Puzzle?

• Custom sorting of strings in DT with an invisible column

• Tune XGBoost with tidymodels and #TidyTuesday beach volleyball

• Better Progressive xaringan Slides with CSS and :last-of-type

• Modern Rule-Based Models

• Using R: setting a colour scheme in ggplot2

• Enhance your {ggplot2} data visualizations with {ggtext}

• Running Free: Calculating Efficiency Factor in R

• Quickly Making an R Shiny Bingo App

• New function to flatten spreadsheet cell formatting into usable character strings.

• Nullable Optional Arguments in Rcpp functions

• Packaging interactive tutorials

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• e-RUM, 17th-20th June, virtual conference. Registration open, for free

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Call for Participation

• We need you: share your COVID-19 work on NHSE/I’s regular mini-huddle series

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

My approach to figure-making in #ggplot ALWAYS begins with sketching out what I want the final product to look like. It feels a bit analog but helps me determine which #geom or #theme I need, what arrangement will look best, & what illustrations/images will spice it up. #rstats pic.twitter.com/GUjeEgqZxj

— Shasta E. Webb (@webbshasta) May 22, 2020

#rstats Rmarkdown tip:

Include a "reproducibility receipt" at the bottom of your docs. When someone contacts you about it in the future you'll be able to quickly lay hands on the code, and get some clues if you can't reproduce it.

Here's the one I put in our team template: pic.twitter.com/45xks3nuZs

— Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) May 21, 2020

1/6 ‼️NEW PACKAGE! And it's awesome. Introducing {shadr}: Write and execute GLSL shaders directly in #rstats!

Here we run the shader "Seascape" by Alexander Alekseev to generate a beautiful realistic 3D water scene, entirely via R. #shadr

Github:https://t.co/qEG4vE6ahp pic.twitter.com/YpikOeT73G

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) May 18, 2020