R Weekly 2019-48 Javascript 4 Shiny, {wisegroup}, R in Africa

02 Dec 2019

Release Date: 2019-12-02

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

Highlight

• JavaScript 4 Shiny - Field Notes

• {wisegroup}: Never be burned by forgetting to ungroup() again

• The state of R in Africa

Insights

• The state of R in Africa

R in the Real World

• Visualizing the Premier League So Far, Part 2: Stats from Open Play and Set Pieces

• AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: November 2019

• Getting started with Keras from R - the 2020 edition

R in Organizations

• A pivotal change to Software Carpentry

Resources

• 2019 R Package Advent Calendar

• Basic play-by-play sequence overview for NFL games

• JavaScript 4 Shiny - Field Notes

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• shinyMobile Mobile Ready ‘shiny’ Apps with Standalone Capabilities

• polite Be Nice on the Web

• gluedown Wrap Vectors in Markdown Formatting

• fitzRoy Easily Scrape and Process AFL Data

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {vov}: vov.css animations for shiny

• {wisegroup}: Never be burned by forgetting to ungroup() again

Updated Packages

• {pins} 0.3: Azure, GCloud, and S3

Videos and Podcasts

• Shiny Developer Series Episode 7 - Eric & Curtis chat with Victor Perrier & Fanny Meyer of dreamRs to discuss the powerful {shinyWidgets} package for enhancing Shiny user interfaces, the origins of dreamRs, and more demos of their excellent packages.

• 15 Tips on Making Better Use of R Markdown

• Not So Standard Deviations Episode 92: Hilary Comes to Town - Hilary and Roger record in person for the third time ever to discuss the changing nature of data science and its role in various industries, the use of QA in data science product development, and lots of other stuff.

• Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition: Introduction Video

Tutorials

• Easy US Maps in R - Thanksgiving Edition

• R-inforcement Learning Part One- Tic Tac Toe

• Search and discover CRAN packages with pkgsearch!

• Another mixed effects model visualization

• Introduction to workloopR: an R package for the analysis of data from muscle physiology experiments

• Refactoring Tests

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• rOpenSci community call: Community Call: Last Night, Testing Saved my Life, December 5

• Yes We Cran: A conference on R packages and their applications, December 6-8

• BioC Asia, December 5-6

• Japan.R 2019, December 7

• European Bioconductor Meeting, December 9-10

• rOpenSci OzUnconf, December 11-13

• R @ ISSA, December 26

• Thinking about rstudio::conf 2020? See the full conference schedule!

• Tidyverse Dev Day, January 31

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

Waaaaaa Jackson Kwok just gave an incredible preso jam packed with interactive vis coded in #rstats tranpiled to JS feat live coding INCREDIBLE. #wombat2019 pic.twitter.com/qDmOBJDcK4

— Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) November 29, 2019