R Weekly 2020-30 Baby sleep, JS debugging

27 Jul 2020

Release Date: 2020-07-27

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

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Highlights

• Baby sleep: the first six months

• Video: Debugging JavaScript You Wrote in R

Insights

• Why do I choose a community developer role over a software developer role in the R community?

• Yanina Bellini Saibene’s Presentation Script for the panel “Supporting diversity in the R community (R forwards panel)”

• Data science workflows

• Project as an R package: An okay idea

• Introducing {dittodb}

• Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R

• Learning enough elisp development to be dangerous: ess_rproj

R in the Real World

• Estimating the risks of partying during a pandemic

• Will walk for food: exploring Singapore’s hawker food density with R

• Baby sleep: the first six months

R in Organizations

• 4 Tips to Make Your Shiny Dashboard Faster

• Learn best practices for setting up a data science team and kicking off a data analytics project – remote or otherwise.

R in Academia

• A Bayesian model for a simulated meta-analysis

• labourR 1.0.0: Automatic Coding of Occupation Titles

Resources

• A mirror of R svn-trunk for tracking changes and testing patches using GitHub actions.

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {palmerpenguins} 0.1.0: Palmer Archipelago (Antarctica) Penguin Data

• {shinydisconnect} 0.1.0: Show a Nice Message When a ‘Shiny’ App Disconnects or Errors

• {covidregionaldata} 0.5.0: Subnational Data for the Covid-19 Outbreak

GitHub or Bitbucket

• shiny386, that provides an old school Bootstrap 4 template for Shiny. It is built on top of the Bootstrap 386 HTML template.

• {EpiNow2} 1.0.0: Estimate real-time case counts and the time-varying reproduction number (Rt).

Videos and Podcasts

• Video: Debugging JavaScript You Wrote in R

• useR! 2020: Breakout session - Supporting diversity in the R community (R forwards panel)

• Why Social Workers Need Data Science (G. Griffin), useR! 2020 lightning talk

• R-Ladies Tbilisi (თბილისი): Elvira Nassirova “Life of a data analyst. Gender gap in Kazakh wages”

• Avoid Dashboard Fatigue

Gist & Cookbook

• tidytuesday map using the waffle package and inset plots

• tidytuesday re-creation of the “RSPCA report on animal outcomes from our shelters, care and adoption centres”

R Internationally

• {PortalHacienda} 0.1.4: Acceder Con R a Los Datos Del Portal De Hacienda

Tutorials

• tidyr::complete to show all possible combinations of variables

• Preview data with either head or heaD

• LSBoost: Explainable ‘AI’ using Gradient Boosted randomized networks (with examples in R & Python)

• Quine with R

• Automatic generation and dispatch of media to customers, blocking points and forwarding solutions

• Tutorial: Better Blog Post Analysis with googleAnalyticsR

• Presentation-Ready Summary Tables with gtsummary

• Building A Neural Net from Scratch Using R - Part 1

• le compte est bon

• Le Monde puzzle [#1152]

• 5 steps to change GitHub default branch from master to main

• Quantifying uncertainty around the short MLB season

• River flow directions

• Building Complex SQL Queries with R

• Tidyverse Basics: Load and Clean Data with R tidyverse Tools

• Weighting on a friend

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

MiR Community is excited to offer a coupon code for #useRs who identify as underrepresented minority R users to R/Medicine! Reg is only $10 and includes an Intro to R Workshop led by @StephanKadauke, certified @RStudioEDU instructor. https://t.co/TnwzVEO2AN #rstats 1/2 https://t.co/EdgaY9WYV7

— Mi_R (@miR_community) July 22, 2020

Events in 3 Months:

• Beyond Case Counts: Making COVID-19 Clinical Data Available and Useful - Thurs, August 13th, 9am PDT/12pm EDT/18:00 CEST

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

Call for Participation

• rstudio::global() call for talks until August the 14th

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

What should be added to #rstats next? Wrong answers only.

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) July 22, 2020

Every time I teach experienced R programmers traceback(), debug(), browser(), etc. I feel a bit like I'm granting a superpower and it's really fun 😊

— Kara Woo (@kara_woo) July 24, 2020