R Weekly 2020-28 Shiny dev Series, dplyr::across, and Github Pat

13 Jul 2020

Release Date: 2020-07-13

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

Highlight

• Shiny Developer Series Episode 10: The importance of user experience with John (JP) Coene

• Across (dplyr 1.0.0): applying dplyr functions simultaneously across multiple columns

• A better way to manage your Github personal access tokens

Insights

• Is catboost the best gradient boosting R package?

• Fun with Docker

• The quality of R’s Random Number Generators

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• Rcpp now used by 2000 CRAN packages–and one in eight!

• Experiences Building a Production Shiny App for Mobile

• This Week in Programming: Is R Gaining Popularity Because of COVID-19?

R in the Real World

• How I Taught Scientific Blogging with R Markdown, Online

• Spotify Cross-Playlist Predictions, Part 1

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• Pointers/shortcuts in R with the ‘pointr’ package

• Expand broom::tidy() output for categorical parameter estimates

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• Rcpp 1.0.5: Several Updates

• A better way to manage your Github personal access tokens

• drat 0.1.7: New functionality

• future and future.apply - Some Recent Improvements

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Introducing ‘miranda’ - a package of fast, modern, uniform pseudo-random number generators

Videos and Podcasts

• Shiny Developer Series Episode 10: The importance of user experience with John (JP) Coene

useR!2020

• useR! 2020: Keynotes

• useR! 2020: Programming

• useR! 2020: Biostatistics

• useR! 2020: Time Series

• useR! 2020: Breakout Sessions

• useR! 2020: Data Management

• useR! 2020: Community

• useR! 2020: Economics and Finance

• useR! 2020: Machine Learning and Statistics

• useR! 2020: Reproducible Research

• useR! 2020: Social Science

• useR! 2020: Spatial

• useR! 2020: Teaching

• useR! 2020: Visualization

• useR! 2020: Web Applications

Gist & Cookbook

• e-Rum 2020 Slides on Progressr

R Internationally

• Du Deuxième Effet Kiss-cool (Régression Multiple, Scoring Et Évaluation)

Tutorials

• Controlling legend appearance in ggplot2 with override.aes

• Getting Started with R Markdown — Guide and Cheatsheet

• R Package Integration with Modern Reusable C++ Code Using Rcpp

• Formatting With ggtext Example

• The Mandelbrot Set

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• A Feature Preprocessing Workflow

• Across (dplyr 1.0.0): applying dplyr functions simultaneously across multiple columns

• Writing Functions to Automate Repetitive Plotting Tasks in ggplot2

• Hierarchical clustering in R: Tutorial

• Automatically Build Data Tables from US Census Survey!

• Basic data analysis with palmerpenguins

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

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

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

"Everything that happens [in R] is a function call"
-- John Chambers, creator of S, R Core Member#RStats pic.twitter.com/CRu4OC9qht

— Thomas Neitmann (@thomas_neitmann) July 10, 2020