R Weekly 2023-W44 Shiny UI Editor, tidymodels workshop, Shiny components

30 Oct 2023

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

Highlight

• ShinyUIEditor: Out of alpha

• Answering some {tidymodels} questions

• {component} - Creating components for Shiny inspired by Vue

Insights

• All The Right Friends: how does Google Scholar rank co-authors?

• Ted Laderas Discusses CascadiaR and the Diverse R Community in Portland

R in the Real World

• Topic modeling for #TidyTuesday Taylor Swift lyrics

• Fund Forecasting: Comparing Prophet, ETS, and ARIMA using Bagging

Resources

• Answering some {tidymodels} questions

• A worthy collection of short R commands and tricks

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {detectors} 0.1.0: Prediction Data from GPT Detectors

• {envvar} 0.1.0: Make Working with Environment Variables Easier and More Consistent

• {databraryr} 0.5.0: Interact with the ‘Databrary.org’ API

• {sdtmval} 0.4.1: Validate SDTM Domains

• {drugDemand} 0.1.0: Drug Demand Forecasting

• {rdracor} 0.7.6: Access to the ‘DraCor’ API

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {component} - Creating components for Shiny inspired by Vue

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {shinyLP} 1.1.3: Bootstrap Landing Home Pages for Shiny Applications - diffify

• {gridpattern} 1.1.1: ‘grid’ Pattern Grobs - diffify

• {rbibutils} 2.2.16: Read ‘Bibtex’ Files and Convert Between Bibliography Formats - diffify

• {dm} 1.0.7: Relational Data Models - diffify

• {httpuv} 1.6.12: HTTP and WebSocket Server Library - diffify

• {s3fs} 0.1.4: ‘Amazon Web Service S3’ File System - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• The role changes in programming within the pharmaceutical industry

• What Do You Mean Test Coverage?! Efficient Testing for Shiny Apps

• TidyX Episode 161: Shinylive - is this thing on?

• Reduced perceived waiting time in Shiny

Shiny Apps

• ShinyUIEditor: Out of alpha

Tutorials

• RObservations #48: Exploring All Possible Hands in 5 card Poker

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• Using Spatial Data with R Shiny workshop

• PHUSE Connect EU 2023 –  Clinical Data Science Conference – Coming in Early November

Grants & Funding

• satRdays infrastructure update – ISC Funded Project

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Quotes of the Week