R Weekly 2021-W01 Data Science Box, Vote, blogdown

04 Jan 2021

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

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

Highlight

• Data Science Course in a Box - The core content of the course focuses on data acquisition and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, inference, modelling, and effective communication of results.

• A version of the famous visualization - Land doesn’t vote, people do

• Up & running with blogdown in 2021

Insights

• Should statistical data analysis in psychology be like defecating?

• How has Covid-19 affected athletics performances in the UK?

• Up & running with blogdown in 2021

• A year in review

• The making of that title race chart

• 2020 recap, Gradient Boosting, Generalized Linear Models, AdaOpt with nnetsauce and mlsauce

• Correlation Analysis in R, Part 1: Basic Theory

• R Shiny {Golem} - Development to Production - Overview

• Parallelized loops with R

R in the Real World

• A version of the famous visualization - Land doesn’t vote, people do

• Meet the LEGO Art Mosaic Generator

• Summarise the 2020 with R and rgl

• BeyonTay - randomly pairing Beyoncé and Taylor Swift lyrics that rhyme. Data sets from TidyTuesday 2020 week 40 .

• Running R Scripts on a Schedule with GitHub Actions

• A Taste of GitHub Actions with an Automated Plot

• Neighborhoods: Experimenting with Cyclic Cellular Automata

• RObservations #6- #TidyTuesday – Analyzing data on the Australian Bush Fires

• Tantalising Games in R: Fun with statistical computing

• Pricing Of European Options With Monte Carlo

• Vendée globe - Exploratory data analysis

• Revisited: Animating 2020 running goals - and compare them with previous years

• The Tidyverse in a Table

Resources

• Data Science Course in a Box - The core content of the course focuses on data acquisition and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, inference, modelling, and effective communication of results.

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {tm.plugin.koRpus} 0.4-1: Full Corpus Support for the ‘koRpus’ Package

Updated Packages

• {ggplot2} 3.3.3: Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics

• {data.table} 1.13.6: Extension of data.frame

• {rlang} 0.4.10: Functions for Base Types and Core R and ‘Tidyverse’ Features

• {cowplot} 1.1.1: Streamlined Plot Theme and Plot Annotations for ‘ggplot2’

Videos and Podcasts

• SatRday Columbus 2020 (playlist on YouTube)

• Running R Code in Parallel: What if run times differ? clusterApplyLB

Tutorials

• abs and relu are not Mercer Kernels

• How to use $ (dollar sign) in R: 6 Examples – list & dataframe

• Little useless-useful R functions – Folder Treemap

• Little Helpers: Character index counter +

• Fast functions with pipes

• Age Stratified All-Cause and COVID-19 Associated Mortality

• Unbreak your blogdown site

• Optimizing partitioning for Apache Spark database loads via JDBC for performance

• Playing with Roman numerals

• Ten awesome R Markdown tricks

• Introduction to the sfo Package

• Introduction to USgas Package

• Plotting Time Series in R

• Geo maps with R and Leaflet

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

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

#rstats

How it started How it’s going pic.twitter.com/mGzn9vqOBt

— Kyle Cuilla (@kc_analytics) January 2, 2021

Don't trust choropleth maps. Evidence from Switzerland! 😉 #RStats

Shout-outs to @thomasp85 for {transformr}/{particles}, @hadleywickham et al. for {ggplot2}/{dplyr}, @edzerpebesma for {sf}, @politan_ch for {swissdd} and @hrbrmstr for {hrbrthemes}.

➡️ https://t.co/xQchB1XRPb pic.twitter.com/pzalnCUqQW

— David Zumbach (@DavidZumbach) December 31, 2020