R Weekly 2024-W29, webrcli & spidyr, compare slider widget

15 Jul 2024

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

Highlight

• webrcli & spidyr: What’s new

• Create a Compare slider widget

Insights

• Some updates about the insurance datasets package (CASdataset)

• The Power of Transitioning to a ‘-verse’ Approach in R Package Development

R in Academia

• Rare Degenerative Diseases & Statistics:Methods for Analyzing Composite Patient Outcomes

R in Organizations

• Kolkata R User Group: A Rich History with Statistics

New Packages

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CRAN

{osmapiR} 0.1.0: Interface to ‘OpenStreetMap API’

• {holi} 0.1.0: Higher Order Likelihood Inference Web Applications

• {modisfast} 0.9.1: Fast and Efficient Access to MODIS Earth Observation Data

• {iPRISM} 0.1.1: Intelligent Predicting Response to Cancer Immunotherapy Through Systematic Modeling

• {WES} 1.0.0: Tools for Analyzing Wastewater and Environmental Sampling Data

• {sampcompR} 0.2.0: Comparing and Visualizing Differences Between Surveys

• {mergenstudio} 1.0: ‘Mergen’ Studio: An ‘RStudio’ Addin Wrapper for the ‘Mergen’ Package

• {rnaCrosslinkOO} 0.1.4: Analysis of RNA Crosslinking Data

• {PurpleAir} 1.0.0: Query the ‘PurpleAir’ Application Programming Interface

• {exams.forge} 1.0.10: Support for Compiling Examination Tasks using the ‘exams’ Package

• {checked} 0.1.0: Systematically Run R CMD Checks

• {amscorer} 0.1.0: Clinical Scores Calculator for Healthcare

• {decp} 0.1.0: Complete Change Point Analysis

• {dapper} 1.0.0: Data Augmentation for Private Posterior Estimation

• {syrup} 0.1.0: Measure Memory and CPU Usage for Parallel R Code

• {rank} 0.1.0: Customisable Ranking of Numerical and Categorical Data

• {pEPA} 1.0: Tests of Equal Predictive Accuracy for Panels of Forecasts

• {paramDemo} 1.0.1: Parametric and Non-Parametric Demographic Functions and Applications

• {FastUtils} 0.1.1: Fast, Readable Utility Functions

Updated Packages

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• webrcli & spidyr: What’s new

• Rhino 1.9.0 Update on CRAN: New Formatting Tools and Cleaner {bslib} Integration

• {rhino} 1.9.0: A Framework for Enterprise Shiny Applications - diffify

• {RRNA} 1.2: Secondary Structure Plotting for RNA - diffify

• {Epi} 2.52: Statistical Analysis in Epidemiology - diffify

• {sotkanet} 0.10.1: Sotkanet Open Data Access and Analysis - diffify

• {gm} 2.0.0: Create Music with Ease - diffify

• {rsgeo} 0.1.7: An Interface to Rust’s ‘geo’ Library - diffify

• {duckdb} 1.0.0-1: DBI Package for the DuckDB Database Management System - diffify

• {gt} 0.11.0: Easily Create Presentation-Ready Display Tables - diffify

• {FielDHub} 1.4.0: A Shiny App for Design of Experiments in Life Sciences - diffify

• {childfree} 0.0.2: Access and Harmonize Childfree Demographic Data - diffify

• {quickcode} 0.9: Quick and Essential ‘R’ Tricks for Better Scripts - diffify

• {WeibullR.learnr} 0.1.3: An Interactive Introduction to Life Data Analysis - diffify

• {jmvReadWrite} 0.4.7: Read and Write ‘jamovi’ Files (‘.omv’) - diffify

• {dockerfiler} 0.2.3: Easy Dockerfile Creation from R - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• How to Interpret Statistical Results with marginaleffects for R

• Why use Github Actions (as an R programmer) ?

R Internationally

R Avanzado: Libro escrito por Hadley Wickham con el que comprenderá cómo funciona el lenguaje y aprenderá nuevas estrategias para resolver diversos problems.

Tutorials

Leafier & leaner: Leafy dendrograms and a leaner R package

• Schedule generator with R

• Random Intercept Model in R: Interpretation and Visualization

• The Unique Function in R: How to Use it in 4 Ways

• Exploring Random Walks with TidyDensity in R

• Using the FileDateTime Function in VBA from R

• Generating Random City Names Based on Syllable Formation Rules

• Extracting Strings Before a Space in R

• Unleashing the Power of TidyDensity: Simplifying Distribution Analysis in R

• R Microbenchmark: How to Measure and Compare the Execution of R Expressions

• R functions for checking and fixing vmrk files from BrainVision

• Create a Compare slider widget

• Annotated area charts with plotnine

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• Call for Speakers - R in Pharma Conf 2024

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Connect

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rtistry

I've finally found the time to get back to some #Rtistry this week! 🎨#RStats #GenArtClub #GenerativeArt pic.twitter.com/J7ghpl4q0m

— Nicola Rennie | @[email protected] (@nrennie35) July 4, 2024

Quotes of the Week

Data Scientists that use R:

Stop giving chatgpt your data.

Do this instead... 🧵#rstats pic.twitter.com/5ZxC0Y9zoF

— 🔥 Matt Dancho (Business Science) 🔥 (@mdancho84) July 11, 2024

The Academic Reality pic.twitter.com/CtJH7IGEO3

— Happy Researchers (@hapyresearchers) June 22, 2024