R Weekly 2020-23 {officedown}, {dplyr} 1.0.0 available, Outstanding User Interfaces

08 Jun 2020

Release Date: 2020-06-08

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

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Black Lives Matter Support

• So you work in tech and want to support Black Lives Matter

• #BlackLivesMatter: A joint statement by Forwards and R-Ladies

• Rename the Fisher Lecture after David Blackwell

Highlight

• {officedown} 0.1.0: Enhanced ‘R Markdown’ Format for ‘Word’ and ‘PowerPoint’

• dplyr 1.0.0 available now!

• Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny

Insights

• How I Taught Tidymodels, Virtually

• Is Your Data Science Credible Enough?

R in the Real World

• More Select COVID-19 Resources

• Reproduce economic indicators from ‘The Economist’

• Riddler: Can You Roll The Perfect Bowl?

R in Organizations

• Effectively Deploying and Scaling Shiny Apps with ShinyProxy, Traefik and Docker Swarm

R in Academia

• Sequential Bayesian Designs for Rapid Learning in COVID-19 Clinical Trials

• Machine learning is simply statistics – part 2

Resources

• Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny

• Optimal workflows for package vignettes

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {rmdpartials} 0.5.8: Partial ‘rmarkdown’ Documents to Prettify your Reports

• {ggnuplot} 0.1.0: Make ‘ggplot2’ Look Like ‘gnuplot’

• {ggtext} 0.1.0: Improved Text Rendering Support for ‘ggplot2’

• {word2vec} 0.1.0: Distributed Representations of Words

• {dash} 0.5.0: An Interface to the ‘dash’ Ecosystem for Authoring Reactive Web Applications

• {officedown} 0.1.0: Enhanced ‘R Markdown’ Format for ‘Word’ and ‘PowerPoint’

• {shinySearchbar} 1.0.0: Shiny Searchbar - An Input Widget for Highlighting Text and More

• {sketcher} 0.1.3: Pencil Sketch Effect

• {newscatcheR} 0.0.2: Programmatically Collect Normalized News from (Almost) Any Website

• {MrSGUIDE} 0.1.1: Multiple Responses Subgroup Identification using ‘GUIDE’ Algorithm

• {nhlapi} 0.1.2: A Minimum-Dependency ‘R’ Interface to the ‘NHL’ API

• {upsetjs} 1.0.2: ‘HTMLWidget’ Wrapper of ‘UpSet.s’ for Exploring Large Set Intersections

GitHub or Bitbucket

• tidybayes.rethinking: Extend tidybayes to work with the rethinking package

• instaloadeR: R Wrapper for instaloader Python module to scrape instragram data

Updated Packages

• littler 0.3.10: Some more updates

• dplyr 1.0.0 available now!

• haven 2.3.0

• Presentation of what’s new in an upcoming release of the huxtable table package.

• {mwshiny} 2.1.0

• {tsibbledata} 0.2.0

• {gtsummary} 1.3.1

• {tidyRSS} 2.0.2

Videos and Podcasts

• T^4 #4: Introducing Byobu

• Why R? Understanding Word Embeddings

• TidyX Episode 13: Marble Races and Bump Plots

Tutorials

• Working with Excel files in R programming

• Principal Component Analysis with R programming

• How to create an R package, easy mode

• Fast RMarkdown theming with thematic and bootstraplib

• Learning R: Build a Password Generator

• A tutorial on using Dirichlet processes to build an infinite state Markov model that can measure the state of the stock market

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• e-RUM, 17th-20th June, virtual conference. Registration open, for free

• 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

And let it be known that, on this day of the 7th of June 2020 (aka The End Times), our brave #rstats hero finally smote the eldritch terror known as rJava.

Let it slumber for all eternity (or until his next OS upgrade). pic.twitter.com/yF7rjoHxbA

— Max Kuhn (@topepos) June 7, 2020

To those who suggest that tech folks should "stick to tech" and avoid politics: Open source is political, it's deeply intertwined with societal systems of power. It's also an opportunity to balance some of that power. Politics is why many get into open source in the first place

— Chris Holdgraf (@choldgraf) June 3, 2020