R Weekly 2020-22 Teaching R Markdown, SVG graphics, parsing JSON

01 Jun 2020

Release Date: 2020-06-01

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

• How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly?

Highlight

• How I Teach R Markdown
• Superior svg graphics rendering in R, and why it matters
• Easily parsing JSON in R with jsonlite and purrr

Insights

• My Favorite dplyr 1.0.0 Features
• What It Takes to Tidy Census Data
• Easy PixelCNN with tfprobability
• Easily parsing JSON in R with jsonlite and purrr
• covid19 & some computational-corpus linguistics
• Superior svg graphics rendering in R, and why it matters
• 🎤The Tidyvision Song Contest

• How I Teach R Markdown
• caracas: Computer Algebra in R via SymPy
• Syntax Highlighting in Blogdown; a very specific solution
• {almanac} 0.1.0
• Mad methods
• Testing R on Emulated Platforms
• How to distribute data with your R package
• AdaOpt classification on MNIST handwritten digits (without preprocessing)
• April 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
• Correlation coefficient and correlation test in R
• Polygons to hexagons

+ Tidymodels and XGBoost; a few learnings

• PCA and UMAP with tidymodels and #TidyTuesday cocktail recipes
• Learning Statistics: Randomness is a Strange Beast
• Dummy variables in R
• How to Create Dummy Variables in R (with Examples)
• tidylo is now on CRAN! 🎉
• Considering the number of categories in an ordinal outcome
• Introducing the hacksaw package
• Brief overview of the tidymodels workflow using bayesian optimisation
• {reactable} 2.0.0 Now with cross-widget interactions

R in the Real World

• Southern Africa Project 2020

R in Academia

• Pixelate to communicate: visualising uncertainty in maps of disease risk and other spatial continua (package: {pixelate})
• Critique of “Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period” — Part 1: Reproducing the results
• RTutor: How would Carbon Pricing Affect US Electricity Production?
• Visualizing text-based data

Resources

• RStudio 1.3 Released
• Introduction to landscape ecology with R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {newscatcheR} 0.0.1: Programmatically Collect Normalized News from (Almost) Any Website
• {genius} 2.2.2: Easily Access Song Lyrics from Genius.com
• {almanac} 0.1.0: Tools for Working with Recurrence Rules
• {tidylo} 0.1.0: Weighted Tidy Log Odds Ratio
• {nombre} 0.1.0: Number Names
• {nhlapi} 0.1.2: A Minimum-Dependency ‘R’ Interface to the ‘NHL’ API
• {applicable} 0.0.1: A Compilation of Applicability Domain Methods
• {upsetjs} 1.0.2: ‘HTMLWidget’ Wrapper of ‘UpSet.s’ for Exploring Large Set Intersections

• {sketcher} 0.1.3: Pencil Sketch Effect
• {BOJ} 0.2.2: Interface to Bank of Japan Statistics
• {ROpenCVLite} 0.4.430: Install ‘OpenCV’

Updated Packages

• {modelsummary} 0.3.0
• {NIMBLE} 0.9.1
• {RcppSimdJson} 0.0.5: Updated Upstream
• {bitmexr} 0.3.0
• {tidyr} 1.1.0
• {reactable} 0.2.0
• {strand} 0.1.3
• {timetk} 2.0.0
• {rmarkdown} 2.2
• {ukpolice} 0.2.1
• {gratia} 0.4.1
• {ggstatsplot} 0.5.0
• {jsonify} 1.2.0
• {exiftoolr} 0.1.3
• {drat} 0.1.6
• {chk} 0.5.0
• {tidytable} 0.5.1
• {dplyr} 1.0.0
• {texreg} 1.37.1
• {copula} 1.0-0
• {pkgload} 1.1.0
• {ggplot2} 3.3.1
• {pins} 0.4.1
• {slider} 0.1.4
• {StanHeaders} 2.21.0-3
• {tidyjson} 0.3.0
• {trelliscopejs} 0.2.5
• {survminer} 0.4.7
• {rgdal} 1.5-8
• {reticulate} 1.16
• {dbplyr} 1.4.4
• {brms} 2.13.0
• {tibbletime} 0.1.4
• {rbokeh} 0.5.1
• {httpuv} 1.5.3.1
• {modelsummary} 0.3.0
• {tables} 0.9.3
• {geofacet} 0.2.0
• {biglm} 0.9-2

Videos and Podcasts

• A minimal reprex for a shiny app
• PCA and UMAP with tidymodels and #TidyTuesday cocktail recipes

• 20 tidy tuesday cocktails
• #3 T^4: Customizing The Shell

Tutorials

• How to publish a Shiny app: example with shinyapps.io
• How to upload your R code on GitHub: example with an R script on MacOS
• Get Apple’s Mobility Data

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

Found a link on Twitter you want to submit to @rweekly_org? It's now even easier! Just tag @rweekly_submit in a direct reply to the tweet linking to the post and we'll consider it for the next issue. pic.twitter.com/yiLyM9RD6S

— R Weekly Submit (@rweekly_submit) May 26, 2020

{hacksaw} can now shift values left and right across rows: pic.twitter.com/AVn8wF8Ger

— David Ranzolin (@daranzolin) May 27, 2020

#Flower
library(tidyverse)
seq(-3,3,by=.01) %>%
expand.grid(x=., y=.) %>%
ggplot(aes(x=(1-x-sin(y^2)), y=(1+y-cos(x^2)))) +
geom_point(alpha=.05, shape=20, size=0)+
theme_void()+
coord_polar()#rstats #generativeart #maths pic.twitter.com/SilNMUFmpe

— Antonio Sánchez Chinchón (@aschinchon) May 26, 2020

an autumnal voronoi tree pic.twitter.com/D6XoIHxo8F

— Danielle Navarro (@djnavarro) May 30, 2020