R Weekly 2024-W28 R-Ladies Seattle, Faster R code with Rust, Conditional LinkingTo

08 Jul 2024

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

Highlight

• Diving into R with Isabella Velasquez: Perspectives from R-Ladies Seattle

• Faster R code with Rust

• Conditional LinkingTo in R: Innovations Supporting Shiny

Insights

• Conditional LinkingTo in R: Innovations Supporting Shiny

• Introducing Positron: A New, Yet Familiar IDE for R and Python

• {nara} demos

• Type safe(r) R code

R in the Real World

• Shiny in Production 2024: Workshops

• Diving into R with Isabella Velasquez: Perspectives from R-Ladies Seattle

• Winners of the 2024 Table Contest

• Faster R code with Rust

• Reproducible reports and presentations with Quarto

R in Organizations

• R Consortium’s Submission Working Group: Advancing R for Regulatory Success at PharmaSUG 2024

• Announcing New Software Peer Review Editors: Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {PRA} 0.2.0: Project Risk Analysis
• {worldbank} 0.1.0: Client for the ‘World Bank Indicators API’
• {simdata} 0.4.0: Generate Simulated Datasets
• {orbital} 0.1.0: Predict with ‘tidymodels’ Workflows in Databases

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Introducing {Rdune}

• {nara}

• {tilebased} - move a sprite around a map inside an R graphics window (concept)

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

{mirai} 1.1.1: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R

• ShinyProxy 3.1.1: What’s New and How It Improves Scalability and Performance of Your Shiny Applications

• {gibasa} 1.1.1: An Alternative ‘Rcpp’ Wrapper of ‘MeCab’ - diffify
• {mgi.report.reader} 0.1.2: Read Mouse Genome Informatics Reports - diffify
• {amberr} 1.1.0: ‘Amber’ Electronic Data Capture Client - diffify
• {treasury} 0.2.0: Client for US Treasury XML Feed and Published Data - diffify
• {yaml} 2.3.9: Methods to Convert R Data to YAML and Back - diffify
• {camtrapdp} 0.3.1: Read and Manipulate Camera Trap Data Packages - diffify
• {arcgislayers} 0.3.0: An Interface to ArcGIS Data Services - diffify
• {timeless} 0.2.3: Fast General Purpose Date/Time Converter - diffify
• {cpp11armadillo} 0.2.8: An ‘Armadillo’ Interface - diffify
• {downloadthis} 0.4.0: Implement Download Buttons in ‘rmarkdown’ - diffify
• {r4ds.tutorials} 0.3.0: Tutorials for “R for Data Science” - diffify
• {future.mirai} 0.2.2: A ‘Future’ API for Parallel Processing using ‘mirai’ - diffify
• {tidyfinance} 0.2.1: Tidy Finance Helper Functions - diffify
• {arcgisgeocode} 0.2.0: A Robust Interface to ArcGIS ‘Geocoding Services’ - diffify
• {zoomerjoin} 0.1.5: Superlatively Fast Fuzzy Joins - diffify
• {FamEvent} 3.2: Family Age-at-Onset Data Simulation and Penetrance Estimation - diffify
• {ps} 1.7.7: List, Query, Manipulate System Processes - diffify

• {DrugExposureDiagnostics} 1.0.6: Diagnostics for OMOP Common Data Model Drug Records - diffify

• {b64} 0.1.1: Fast and Vectorized Base 64 Engine - diffify
• {attachment} 0.4.2: Deal with Dependencies - diffify
• {nanoparquet} 0.3.1: Read and Write ‘Parquet’ Files - diffify
• {mirai} 1.1.1: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R - diffify
• {khroma} 1.13.0: Colour Schemes for Scientific Data Visualization - diffify
• {pharmaverseadam} 1.0.0: ADaM Test Data for the ‘Pharmaverse’ Family of Packages - diffify
• {ctrdata} 1.19.0: Retrieve and Analyze Clinical Trials in Public Registers - diffify
• {erify} 0.6.0: Check Arguments and Generate Readable Error Messages - diffify
• {PoPdesign} 1.1.0: Posterior Predictive (PoP) Design for Phase I Clinical Trials - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Positron IDE doing Data Analysis with R (Public Beta)

• Positron IDE Connecting to a Database in R and Displaying in the Connections Panel (Public Beta)

• Positron IDE accessing Projects on macOS using an Alfred workflow for Project Manager Extension

• RIP RStudio 🪦 Positron has my 💕

• Stop Making Spaghetti (Code) - Nicola Rennie

• R Consortium’s R-based Test Submission Package for FDA Evaluation - Joel Laxamana

• Rix: Reproducible Environments with Nix - Bruno Rodrigues

Shiny Apps

• Shiny app for R packages nearing their CRAN deadlines

• {quartoextexp} - Shiny gadget to Explore and Install Extensions from Quarto Extensions Listing

Tutorials

• Generating binary data by specifying the relative risk, with simulations

• Introducing latent2likert v1.2.1: Converting Latent Variables into Likert Scale Responses

• Structural and Predictive Macro Analyses using the R Package bsvars workshop

• How to Extract String After a Specific Character in R

• Unlocking the Power of Administrative Data with healthyR.data

• Improving your GitHub Profile

• 3MW (Using Shiny Modules With Golem)

• Time Series Forecasting in R: From Moving Averages to Seasonal ARIMA

• Fundamentals of map design with mapgl

• Building a Website in R - R-Ladies Rome & R-Ladies NYC

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

Grants & Funding

• ‘Cutting edge’ UL biomedical software project gets support from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Datasets

• TidyTuesday 2024 W27 Datasets

Connect

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Quotes of the Week

With the new {mapgl} #rstats package, you can layer videos and animations on your @Mapbox or @maplibre maps!

The example shown implements Mapbox's video source tutorial in R.

Try it out with the code here! https://t.co/BZhCqEMNab pic.twitter.com/jSlkbG1RLi

— Kyle Walker (@kyle_e_walker) July 5, 2024