R Weekly 2020-50 tidyverse, bullet chart variants, AWS Lambda

14 Dec 2020

Release Date: 2020-12-14

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

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Highlight

• Underrated Tidyverse Functions

• Bullet Chart Variants in R

• R on AWS Lambda with containers

Insights

• Underrated Tidyverse Functions

• NHS-R Community Conference – organisers’ perspective

R in the Real World

• Exploring NHL Stanley Cup Champion’s Points Percentage In Four GGPlots

• Bullet Chart Variants in R

• Batting Visualizations for Nine Sluggers

• Politely Scraping Health Insurance Data

• A quiz about a 95% CI interpretation in the FDA Covid vaccine meeting

• The NHS-R Community and Hexitime – Our 1st month of collaborating

• Tracking Indonesia’s economic recovery from COVID-19

• OneR in Medical Research: Finding Leading Symptoms, Main Predictors and Cut-Off Points

• Comparing 1st and 2nd lockdown using electricity consumption in France

R in Academia

• R Shiny in the Classroom

• A Bayesian implementation of a latent threshold model

Resources

• dplyr crossword

• How does your data flow? Using R for ETL (EdinbR talk)

• Setting up a new MacBook Pro

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {RadialVisGadgets} 0.2.0: Interactive Gadgets for Radial Visualization Approaches

• {MASSExtra} 1.0.2: Some ‘MASS’ Enhancements

• {giftwrap} 0.0.4: Take Shell Commands and Turn Them into R Functions

• {motifr} 1.0.0: Motif Analysis in Multi-Level Networks

• {doc2vec} 0.1.0: Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents

• {mockthat} 0.2.4: Function Mocking for Unit Testing in R

• {qsimulatR} 1.0: A Quantum Computer Simulator

• {outsider} 0.1.1: Install and Run Programs, Outside of R, Inside of R

• {CompAREdesign} 1.5: Statistical Functions for the Design of Studies with Composite Endpoints

• {libr} 1.0.1: Libraries, Data Dictionaries, and a Data Step for R

• {eyedata} 0.1.0: Open Source Ophthalmic Data Sets Curated for R

• {mlpack} 3.4.2: ‘Rcpp’ Integration for the ‘mlpack’ Library

• {ComplexUpset} 0.7.3: Create Complex UpSet Plots Using ‘ggplot2’ Components

• {savonliquide} 0.1.0: Check for Color Contrast Accessibility

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {ggx}: A Natural Langauge Interface to ggplot2

• Introducing flexo - simple lex/parse tools in R

Updated Packages

• validate version 1.0.1 has been released, together with a brand new Data Validation Cookbook. See release notes.

• {corrr} 0.4.3

• {ggstream}: A package to make streamplots

• {data.table} 1.13.4: Extension of data.frame

• RcppSpdlog 0.0.4: New upstream

• Granger-causality without assuming linear regression, enhancements to generalCorr package

• {progressr} 0.7.0: An Inclusive, Unifying API for Progress Updates

• {d3Tree} 0.2.2: Create Interactive Collapsible Trees with the JavaScript ‘D3’ Library

• {usethis} 2.0.0: Automate Package and Project Setup

• {future} 1.21.0: Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone

• {encryptedRmd} 0.2.1: Encrypt Html Reports Using ‘Libsodium’

• {mlr3} 0.9.0: Machine Learning in R - Next Generation

• {terrainr}: Retrieve Data from the USGS National Map and Transform it for 3D Landscape Visualizations. Version 0.2.0 released on GitHub – new features to visualize vector geodata, better sf integration, and more!

• {parallelly} 1.22.0: Enhancing the ‘parallel’ Package

• {doFuture} 0.11.0: A Universal Foreach Parallel Adapter using the Future API of the ‘future’ Package

Videos and Podcasts

• How to migrate from TravisCI to GitHub Actions for R packages

• TidyX Episode 39

• R at Microsoft

• Easy error handling in R (no loops) and some more functional programming tricks

Shiny Apps

• Least squares as springs, the Shiny app

• WhaleMap

• Political Science PhD admission decisions

R Internationally

• (Japanese) [小ネタ] R でコロプレス図 (色分け地図) をなるべく簡単に描く

Tutorials

• Using {pocketapi} to Understand My Reading Behavior

• Using cbsodataR to plot total deaths per week in the Netherlands from 1995 to 2020 (OC from reddit)

• Storytime preparedness with av

• An Introduction to Publishing with R Markdown

• R on AWS Lambda with containers

• Advent of 2020, Day 11 – Using Azure Databricks Notebooks with R Language for data analytics

• Classify penguins with nnetsauce’s MultitaskClassifier

• How to Rename Column (or Columns) in R with dplyr

• Rank IPL batsmen and bowlers post IPL 2020

• Accessing GrahpQL from R

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

• Announcing the 2020 R Community Survey

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Quotes of the Week

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Me: SO, I know we can't have a holiday party this year, but we CAN make our #rstats R Markdown reports snow before we send them to each other https://t.co/SSBzlgb3TV
HT to https://t.co/c7c5c5csMK for the heavy lifting pic.twitter.com/hIu7z0knR4

— Emily Riederer (@EmilyRiederer) December 10, 2020

JavaScript has a ternary operator

condition ? if_its_true : if_its_false

that's shorthand for

if (condition) { if_its_true } else { if_its_false }

What if we had this in #rstats? It's totally possible 👿 pic.twitter.com/OEmfuHqKaz

— Garrick Aden-Buie (@grrrck) December 13, 2020