R Weekly 2021-W02 fastai, renv, Github Actions

11 Jan 2021

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

Highlight

• Automatic Rendering of a Plot with GitHub Actions

• {fastai} 2.0.2: Interface to fastai

• {renv} 0.12.5: Project Environments

Insights

• Using the bootstrap for bias reduction

• rOpenSci 2020 Code of Conduct Transparency Report

• rOpenSci Code of Conduct Annual Review

• COVID-19 Data: The Long Run

• Lilliefors, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and cross-validation

• Coming soon: effortlessly generate ordinal data without assuming proportional odds

• Bringing R to Swift on macOS

• Most popular posts for 2020

• This is how you create a one year long newspaper

R in the Real World

• Predicting the outcome of the English Premier League by using Monte Carlo Method (in R)

• IMDb datasets: 3 centuries of movie rankings visualized

• Exploring the game “First Orchard” with simulation in R

• F1 2020 Season Review

• Predicting injuries for Chicago traffic crashes

R in Organizations

• Professional Financial Reports with RMarkdown

R in Academia

• Finding Economic Articles with Data and Specific Empirical Methods

Tutorials

• Tutorial: Adding Open Street Map Data to Rayshader Maps in R

• Automatic Rendering of a Plot with GitHub Actions

• Safety Checking Locally Installed Package URLs

• Portable Continuous Integration using r-ci

• Smoothing isn’t Always Safe

• Isovists using uniform ray casting in R

• Custom Google Analytics Dashboards with R: Building The Dashboard

• The Nature of Overfitting

• Little useless-useful R functions – Playing stack of cards

• Little useless-useful R functions – Mathematical puzzle of Four fours

• Rtini Part II: Vectorize the Absolute $#!+ Out of This

• Create a simple R data package during a coffee break in 7 steps

• A guide to dynamically show a light/dark plot in a website based on the user’s preference, using ggplot2 and pkgdown

Resources

• future.BatchJobs - End-of-Life Announcement

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• proceduralnames: A small, dependency-free way to generate random names.

• {scrappy} 0.0.1: A Simple Web Scraper

• {ctsemOMX} 1.0.3: Continuous Time SEM - ‘OpenMx’ Based Functions

• {covid19jp} 0.1.0: Japanese Covid-19 Datasets

• {EMDSVRhybrid} 0.1.0: Hybrid Machine Learning Model

• {APCI} 0.1.0: A New Age-Period-Cohort Model for Describing and Investigating Inter-Cohort Differences and Life Course Dynamics

• {nbapalettes} 0.1.0: An NBA Jersey Palette Generator

• {matrixdist} 1.0: Statistics for Matrix Distributions

• {cragg} 0.0.1: Tests for Weak Instruments in R

• {collapse} 1.5.0: Advanced and Fast Data Transformation

• {WSGeometry} 1.0: Compute Wasserstein Barycenters, Geodesics, PCA and Distances

• {ggmulti} 0.1.0: High Dimensional Data Visualization

• {arabic2kansuji} 0.1.0: Convert Arabic Numerals to Kansuji

• {pkgnews} 0.0.1: Retrieve R Package News Files

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {gibboda}: Gender Isn’t Binary But Other Data Are.

• {vegadown}: ‘knitr’ Engine to Render ‘YAML’ and ‘JSON’ into ‘Vega’.

• {quicknews}: Some R-functions for navigating the online news landscape.]

Updated Packages

• {SphericalCubature} 1.5: Numerical Integration over Spheres and Balls in n-Dimensions; Multivariate Polar Coordinates

• {spatialEco} 1.3-5: Spatial Analysis and Modelling Utilities

• {circlize} 0.4.12: Circular Visualization

• {rgl} 0.104.16: 3D Visualization Using OpenGL

• {bayesplot} 1.8.0: Plotting for Bayesian Models

• {WVPlots} 1.3.2: Common Plots for Analysis

• {plotly} 4.9.3: Create Interactive Web Graphics via plotly.js

• {treemapify} 2.5.5: Draw Treemaps in ggplot2

• {prettydoc} 0.4.1: Creating Pretty Documents from R Markdown

• {sysfonts} 0.8.3: Loading Fonts into R

• {showtext} 0.9-2: Using Fonts More Easily in R Graphs

• {fastai} 2.0.2: Interface to fastai

• {lessR} 3.9.9: Less Code, More Results

• {leaflet} 2.0.4.1: Create Interactive Web Maps with the JavaScript ‘Leaflet’Library

• {renv} 0.12.5: Project Environments

• {blogdown} 1.0: Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown

• {gtsummary} 1.3.6: Presentation-Ready Data Summary and Analytic Result Tables

• {ipmisc} 5.0.2: Miscellaneous Functions for Data Cleaning and Analysis

• {ProjectTemplate} 0.10.0: Automates the Creation of New Statistical Analysis Projects

• {ggeasy} 0.1.3: Easy Access to ‘ggplot2’ Commands

• {profileModel} 0.6.1: Profiling Inference Functions for Various Model Classes

• {RSQLite} 2.2.2: ‘SQLite’ Interface for R

• {ggridges} 0.5.3: Ridgeline Plots in ggplot2

• {eplusr} 0.14.0: A Toolkit for Using Whole Building Simulation Program ‘EnergyPlus’

• {forestinventory} 1.0.0: Design-Based Global and Small-Area Estimations for Multiphase Forest Inventories

• {tidytext} 0.3.0: Text Mining using ‘dplyr’, ‘ggplot2’, and Other Tidy Tools

• {qtl} 1.47-9: Tools for Analyzing QTL Experiments

• {pubmed.mineR} 1.0.17: Text Mining of PubMed Abstracts

• {renv} 0.12.5: Project Environments

• {modelsummary} 0.6.5: Summary Tables and Plots for Statistical Models and Data: Beautiful, Customizable, and Publication-Ready

• {SHAPforxgboost} 0.1.0: SHAP Plots for ‘XGBoost’

• {shinypanel} 0.1.4: Shiny Control Panel

• {gggibbous} 0.1.1: Moon Charts, a Pie Chart Alternative

• {mully} 2.1.31: Create, Modify and Visualize Multi-Layered Networks

• {libr} 1.1.1: Libraries, Data Dictionaries, and a Data Step for R

• {xfun} 0.20: Miscellaneous Functions by ‘Yihui Xie’

Shiny Apps

• In Review: Your 2020 on Twitter

• 2020 in Headlines:app

• Soccer Analytics Library: Relevant research in the soccer analytics space.

• R Shiny {golem} - Designing the UI - Part 1 - Development to Production

• Creating a Shiny app for your stock portfolio

Videos and Podcasts

• Identifying Bottlenecks (slow code parts) in R using Profiling / profvis

• How to run 100 regressions without loops in R

• Daniel Aleman - The Key Metric for your Forecast is… TRUST

• Emil Hvitfeldt - palette2vec - A new way to explore color paletttes

• Why R Webinar - Integrating Rshiny and REDCap

• Kenneth Benoit - Why you should stop using other text mining packages and embrace quanteda

R Internationally

• (Japanese) “polite”で守るWebスクレイピングのエチケット

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core

• Last Call for the 2020 R Community Survey

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• RStudio::Global (January 21, 2020)

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

I <may> have gone overboard on my research getting ready to teach #Rstats to anthropology students pic.twitter.com/4q7sz9Kkc8

— Marc Kissel (@MarcKissel) January 9, 2021

Relationship goals!#RStats #Rladies #rladiestunis pic.twitter.com/Gy3gZLbQzs

— R-Ladies Tunis (@RLadiesTunis) January 10, 2021