R Weekly 2020-33 Comics, {showtext}, {shinycssloaders}

17 Aug 2020

Release Date: 2020-08-10

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

Highlight

• A visualization exploring types of comic transitions as described in Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics”.

• {showtext} 0.9: Using Fonts More Easily in R Graphs

• {shinycssloaders} 1.0: You can now use your own image, plus 3 years’ worth of new features!

Insights

• On Quosures

• Summer 2020 Data Science Internship (Praxis Funded!)

• How to Deliver Maximum Value Using R & Python

R in the Real World

• A visualization exploring types of comic transitions as described in Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics”.

• Making iterative one-pagers using R

• The language of rules: textual complexity in banking reforms

• Monitor COVID-19 at the COVID-19 Forecast Hub

• Trail running : is it worth starting?

• Mortgage calculator in R Shiny

R in Academia

• H. Bengtsson, A Unifying Framework for Parallel and Distributed Processing in R using Futures, arXiv:2008.00553, 2020

Resources

• R with (x) => x + 1 anonymous functions

• RStats NYC 2020 Conference Website

• Football related community resources

• Create your own FBref scatter plot (Shiny app)

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {geometries} 0.1.0: Convert Between R Objects and Geometric Structures

• {rdomains} 0.1.9: Get the Category of Content Hosted by a Domain

• {graph3d} 0.1.0: A Wrapper of the JavaScript Library ‘vis-graph3d’

• {DataEditR} 0.0.5: An Interactive Editor for Viewing, Entering & Editing Data

• {dashPivottable} 0.0.2-1: Interactive React-Based Pivot Tables for Dash

• {geos} 0.0.1: Open Source Geometry Engine (‘GEOS’) R API

• {flashCard} 0.1.0: Create a Flash Card

• {bsem} 1.0.0: Bayesian Structural Equation Models

• {met} 0.1.0: Evaluating and Improving Matched Samples in Observational Studies

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {soilpalettes}: R color palettes inspired by soil profiles

• {lineR}: lineR package offers a function to send Line notifications using LINE Notify API.

• {stringr.plus} 0.1.0: string functions that are “too specific for stringr” for Hadley Wickham

• {parameterpal} 0.0.1: Intepretable parameters for the beta distribution

Updated Packages

• {pointblank} 0.5.0: Validation of local and remote data tables

• {mapview} 2.9.0: Interactive Viewing of Spatial Data in R

• RcppSimdJson 0.1.1: More Features

• {wikisourcer} 0.1.5: Download Public Domain Works from Wikisource

• {fabricerin} 0.1.2: Create Easily Canvas in ‘shiny’ and ‘RMarkdown’ Documents

• {oxcovid19} 0.1.1: An R API to the Oxford COVID-19 Database

• {MonetDB.R} 2.0.0: Connect MonetDB to R

• {ezplot} 0.6.2: Functions for Common Chart Types

• {showtext} 0.9: Using Fonts More Easily in R Graphs

• {rqdatatable} 1.2.8: ‘rquery’ for ‘data.table’

• {JuliaConnectoR} 0.6.1: A Functionally Oriented Interface for Integrating ‘Julia’ with R

• {skedastic} 1.0.0: Heteroskedasticity Diagnostics for Linear Regression Models

• {cpp11} 0.2.1: A C++11 Interface for R’s C Interface

• {ggalluvial} 0.12.1: Alluvial Plots in ‘ggplot2’

• {tidytable} 0.5.4: Tidy Interface to ‘data.table’

• {vroom} 1.3.0: The fastest delimited reader for R

• {furrr}: 0.1.0

Videos and Podcasts

• Build a predictive text model for Avatar: The Last Airbender with tidymodels

• TidyX Episode 23: Mailbag and Expected Wins

R Internationally

• (French) Télécharger les issues Gitlab ou Github et faire un rapport résumé de vos commits

Tutorials

• How to make web-ready US county-level maps

• Build a #TidyTuesday predictive text model for The Last Airbender

• Solving small data problems with data.table

• Textrecipes series: Pretrained Word Embedding

• Testing interactive functions

• xG Model - Design and Implementation with R Tidymodels

• Quick GitHub Actions for your R package

• Analyzing data on remote servers using Spacemacs and ESS

• Geocoding An Intersection with Open Street Map data

• Transform a folder as git project synchronized on Github or Gitlab

• TV Shows on the “Big 3” Streaming Services

• Outliers detection in R

• {shinycssloaders} v1.0: You can now use your own image, plus 3 years’ worth of new features!

• Annotating SPC plots using annotate with ggplot

• Sharing pictures from holidays in the Canadian Rockies (with R)

• A guide to retrieval and processing of data from relational database systems using Apache Spark and JDBC with R and sparklyr

• Running RStudio Server via Ubuntu 20 on Windows 10

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Join us at R/Medicine – Aug 27-29, 2020

• 88th TokyoR Virtual Meetup - September 19th, 2020

• 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

I saw the fascinating bar chart portrait by @ElanaEllesce at https://t.co/MpPZfkxEL4 and recreated it with magick and ggplot. Code coming soon!#aRt #RStats pic.twitter.com/7M9kuLcnEi

— Georgios Karamanis (@geokaramanis) August 14, 2020

After more than 2 years, there will soon be a new release of the #rstats 📦 for running purrr in parallel - furrr!

There are a ton of bug fixes, a new future_walk() function, a whopping 5 new vignettes, and, most importantly, a hex sticker by Dan Kuhn!https://t.co/qsNodmEk1J pic.twitter.com/45VZSv0yVG

— Davis Vaughan (@dvaughan32) August 14, 2020

I'm chuffed to announce the release of my first open source #rstats package! 🥳🎉🍾

stringr . plus is a collection of helpful string functions that aren't included in stringr:https://t.co/7uFGNs0jN9 pic.twitter.com/adpfOu0qNY

— John Cassil (@johncassil) August 13, 2020

If you've been thinking about submitting to rstudio::global() but haven't quite found the time: good news! We've extended the deadline to submit by two weeks — https://t.co/OJUgzgqqEj #rstats

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) August 13, 2020