R Weekly 2020-18 3D Maps, {drake} diets, {dplyr} for package devs

04 May 2020

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

Highlight

• A Step-by-Step Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R

• Benefits of a function-based diet (The {drake} post)

• dplyr 1.0.0 for package developers

R in the Real World

• Shot Maps In R using StatsBomb Data

• How sports scientists can use ggplot2 in R to make better visualisations

• Analyzing the 2020 Democratic Presidential Debates - Part 2

R in Organizations

• Benefits of a function-based diet (The {drake} post)

R in Academia

• Analysing Twitter data with R: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Resources

• Statistics Sunday: My 2019 Reading

• What do the mtcars actually look like?

• 4 for 4.0.0 – Four Useful New Features in R 4.0.0

• dplyr 1.0.0 for package developers

• Tips before migrating to a newer R version

• R 4.0.0 now available, and a look back at R’s history

• Workflow automation tools for package developers

• RStudio - Thematic

• A technical post on the standardized regression model, with a Shiny app that allows the reader to explore the effect of correlated predictors

• Three Useful Endpoints for Any Plumber API

• Animations in the time of Coronavirus

• Citizen Statistician is back!

• A package to download free Springer books during Covid-19 quarantine

• Statistical Rethinking: Week 2

• lmSubsets: Exact variable-subset selection in linear regression

• Z is for Additional Axes

• UTF-8 Support on Windows

• Riddler: Can You Flip Your Way To Freedom?

• Le Monde puzzle #1141

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• CRAN

phsmethods: an R package for Public Health Scotland

• chessR

• pika

• terrainmeshr

CRoC

• Bioconductor 3.11 Released

GitHub or Bitbucket

Updated Packages

• shinyFeedback 0.2.0 CRAN

• fishualize 0.2.0

• ggplot_theme_Publication

• Revitalizing R package yorkr

Videos and Podcasts

• #0: Introducing T^4: Tips, Tricks, Tools, and Toys

• Automated Programmatic Website Screenshots in R with {webshot}

• Distributed Deep Learning with TensorFlow and R

• NSSD 106 - Podcasts are a Process

Tutorials

• ReRadar charts with R

• ndering your README with GitHub Actions

• Dynamic display of data with animated plots

• Visualising Multilevel Networks with graphlayouts

• Installation of R 4.0 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and tips for spatial packages

• Vignette: Simulating a minimal SPSS dataset from R

• A Step-by-Step Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R

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R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• May 23rd, 85th (Virtual/Online) TokyoR Meetup

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

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Quotes of the Week

You're inevitably going to have to update to R 4.0.0 soon and as a result, you'll lose most of your packages and have to reinstall them. Here's a short script to keep a list of your current R packages and how to reinstall them after updating #rstats #statstwitter pic.twitter.com/NI0ZeHze2C

— Sir Panda (@dailyzad) April 24, 2020

Love plotting, but are bored of standard ggplot palettes for your #RStats plot? Check out Colours Cafe on instagram. They have >400 beautiful color palettes including their hex codes ✨https://t.co/BhVGJwEMcj pic.twitter.com/rWRLEgIwIt

— maria blöchl @🏠 (@mariabloec) April 27, 2020

Hadley doesn't want you to know, but making those Excel 3D bar charts in ggplot is super easy.

Coming soon to my {ggtrash} package.#rstats pic.twitter.com/VjaR6sKOos

— Ryan Timpe (@ryantimpe) April 29, 2020

#RStats Engrossing read for a 2yo. Say's he "needs to read the instructions". pic.twitter.com/TftE8AbUF4

— Jeff Parker (@jeffreyxparker) April 25, 2020