R Weekly 2020-39 shinydashboardPlus, Calendar

28 Sep 2020

Release Date: 2020-09-28

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

Highlights

• {shinydashboardPlus 2.0.0}: extensions for shinydashboard

• A Calendar in Your R Console

Insights

• Data Latam: A community of data practitioners

• Detect When the Random Number Generator Was Used

• August 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• #30: Easy, Reliable, Fast and Portable Linux and macOS Continuous Integration

R in the Real World

• A Twitter bot with {rtweet} and GitHub Actions

• Mean rolling correlation of XLF constituents

R in Academia

• The treedata.table Package

• Theußl, S., Schwendinger, F., & Hornik, K. (2020). ROI: An Extensible R Optimization Infrastructure. Journal of Statistical Software, 94(15), 1 - 64. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v094.i15

Teaching (with) R

• R/exams for Distance Learning: Resources and Experiences

• short quiz on subsetting in R, with learnr.

Resources

• R code to to build your own (soccer/football) player similarity model based on Factor analysis

• Visualizing PFR and NGS data from the NFL

• Sport, Data & R - Alice Sweeting, PhD. (R-Ladies Melbourne, Sept. 2020)

• A web framework for R based on {httpuv} and inspired by express.js.

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {hermiter} 1.0.0: Efficient Online (Sequential) and Batch Estimation of PDF, CDF and Quantiles

• {gitear} 1.0.0: Client to the ‘gitea’ API

• {ggip} 0.1.0: Data Visualization for IP Addresses and Networks

• {omxr} 0.3.3: Read and Write Open Matrix Files

• {htmldf} 0.1.0: Simple Scraping and Tidy Webpage Summaries

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {calendR} 1.1.0: Ready to print calendars with ggplot2

• {rintimg} 0.1.0: View an image in full screen by clicking on it

Updated Packages

• {checkhelper}: A package to help deal with devtools::check outputs

• {future 1.19.1} - Making Sure Proper Random Numbers are Produced in Parallel Processing

• New nnetsauce

• RcppSpdlog 0.0.2: New upstream, awesome new stopwatch

Videos and Podcasts

• Tidy Tuesday live screencast: Analyzing Himalayan climbers in R

• TidyX Episode 28

• Using R on Google Colab with {tidyverse} - Video

• “Data Science for Social Justice” (whyRconf webinar)

Gist & Cookbook

• Writing conundrums

The Shiny Corner

• accessibility (a11y) tooling for shiny

• {shinydashboardPlus 2.0.0}: extensions for shinydashboard

• The Raspberry Pi 4B as a shiny server

• Step by Step Guide to Deploy R Shiny App for Free on Shinyapps.io

R Internationally

• (Japanese) Start SalesForce with R - Tokyo.R #88

• (Japanese) Narrative of [iris] - Tokyo.R #88

Tutorials

• Handle class imbalance in #TidyTuesday climbing expedition data with tidymodels

• S3 Classes and {vctrs} to Create a Soccer Pitch Control Model

• Expected Soccer Goals in R: Overachieving or just lucky?

• Exploring the gt (Grammar Of Tables) Package in R

• A Calendar in Your R Console

• Grid (12 Months of aRt, December)

• Extracting colors from images with the {colorfindr} package

• US Excess Mortality

• National Weekly Death Rates

• Running an R Script on a Schedule: Overview; Gitlab; GitHub Actions; Heroku

• What’s the upper limit on serialization speed in R?

• xxhashlite - hash arbitrary R objects as fast as possible

• Introducing the {triangular} package for decomposing complex polygons to triangles

• Exporting editable ggplot graphics to PowerPoint with officer and purrr

• Spectral clustering tutorial

• Introducing the rintimg Package. Click on an Image and See it on Full Screen

• Free text in surveys - important issues in the 2017 New Zealand Election Study by @ellis2013nz

• Le Monde puzzle [#1155]

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• The release of 4.0.3 (“Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out”) is scheduled for Saturday 2020-10-10. Release candidate tarballs will be made available during the week up to the release.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Free workshop on Deep Learning with Keras and TensorFlow - Thursday, 8th of October (13:00 UTC / 15:00 CEST)

• Announcing the 2020 RStudio Table Contest!

• VirtuEARL – EARL Conference online - October 2020

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Datasets

Jobs

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

#rstats PSA: CRAN pkg pages now also have Twitter & Facebook OpenGraph meta tags (in addition to Highwire Press & Dublin Core tags), thanks to Kurt Hornik and @RetoStauffer2.

So CRAN pkg links now look like this:https://t.co/19oYscpgUM

— Achim Zeileis (@AchimZeileis) September 24, 2020

For my birthday my labs WROTE ME AN R PACKAGE that spits out happy birthday messages and makes me guess who each one is from and SHAMES ME when I get them wrong. These people are NERDS and need to be stopped. (They're also so so so nice and I love them.)

— Joel Le Forestier (@JoelLeForestier) September 24, 2020

My talk about {learnr} for @rstudio conf was accepted.
The best part was sharing the process with the LatAm community. The advice I received improved my proposal.
None of the selected ones got there alone. I don't get there alone.
Thank you!! Gracias, Infinitas gracias. https://t.co/8Co364BPr0

— Yanina Bellini Saibene (@yabellini) September 22, 2020