R Weekly 2020-19 NodeJS from R, BibTeX, Animal Crossing

11 May 2020

Release Date: 2020-05-11

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

Highlight

• How to Write an R Package Wrapping a NodeJS Module

• A Roundup of R Tools for Handling BibTeX

• Sentiment analysis with tidymodels and #TidyTuesday Animal Crossing reviews

Insights

• Standard and Non-Standard Evaluation in R

• A Roundup of R Tools for Handling BibTeX

• Forecasting the next decade in the stock market using time series models

• Auditable Database Storage… What’s Different?

• Benchmark of popular graph/network packages v2

R in the Real World

• Wrangling Unruly Data: The Bane of Every Data Science Team

• Satellite Image Analysis with fast.ai and PyTorch for Disaster Recovery

• High latitude maps in R. Example with seal observations.

• Goals Added: The Art of the Wheel

• Why and how maintain a NEWS file for your R package?

Resources

• Survival Analysis in R

• Introducing squashinformr: Scrape SquashInfo for data on the Professional Squash Association World Tour and other squash tournaments

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• squashinformr

• {textplot}: Text Plots

• sparklyr 1.2: Foreach, Spark 3.0 and Databricks Connect

• New CRAN release of shinyFeedback package

• {kuniezu 0.1.0}: Data set on Japan’s national geography. Provides tools for efficient processing and visualization of unique coordinate systems.

• eponge: Keep Your Environment Clean

• lumberjack 1.2.0 is on CRAN and paper accepted by JSS

• tinytest 1.2.0 is on CRAN

GitHub or Bitbucket

• AzureQstor: R interface to Azure Queue Storage now on GitHub

• Fashion a pattern out of chaos.

• {minifyr} - Wrapper around node-minify NodeJS module

• Introducing ‘arcadefont’ - an oldschool arcade vector font (Happy Star Wars Day)

• {starbility 0.0.0.9000}: Create Coefficient Stability Plot Under Combinations of Controls

• RXSpreadsheet: a new library for editing spreadsheets with Shiny

Updated Packages

• dplyr 1.0.0: last minute additions

Videos and Podcasts

• Sentiment analysis with tidymodels and #TidyTuesday Animal Crossing reviews

• Still Not a Data Scientist

Gist & Cookbook

• Visualing Time Series

R Internationally

• Rédiger avec bookdown : pourquoi ? comment ?

• Prédire le nombre de morts, suite

• {kuniezu}: 日本の国土地理を扱いやすくするRパッケージをCRANに登録しました

• Lobby en el Senado Parte 1: extracción de los registros de audiencias, Parte 2: exploración de los registros de audiencias

Tutorials

• How to Write an R Package Wrapping a NodeJS Module

• Which film should I watch during lockdown?

• Pop the balloons – maths game for home schooling

• Learning R: Build xkcd’s Star Wars Spoiler Generator

• Still hand-crafting your Rdoc files?

• The ‘prisoner coin flipping’ puzzle: tidy simulation in R

• Updating packages on a drat repo

• Securing and monitoring ShinyProxy deployment of R Shiny apps

• Is it possible to build a functioning video game in R Shiny? Let’s find out.

• COVID-19 Risk Heat Maps with Location Data, Apache Arrow, Markov Chain Modeling, and R Shiny

• Introduction to web scraping with R. A step-by-step tutorial on how to extract data from the web using Rvest and Rcrawler.

• Auditable database storage with Shiny

• Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R

• Using R to create and query SQLite databases large amounts of NFL data

• Flipping your Way to Freedom

• Flipping tibbles for many models: Pivoting data from wide to long to run many models at once

• Riddler: Can You Tell When The Snow Started?

• Same Time Next Year: crunching PubMed data

• Vignette: Generate your own ggplot theme gallery

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Some Upcoming R Related, Virtual Events

• Join the ‘BiocCheck-a-thon’ May 18 - 22, 2020

• Rcpp Virtual Talk on June 5

• e-Rum2020 - 17th-20th June 2020

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

More #mathsart I've done whilst playing around with #rstats programming language pic.twitter.com/FgZbCvOdXf

— Ravi Subramanian (@RaviSubbie) May 8, 2020