R Weekly 2019-32 ggtext, arrow, Shiny Developer Series

12 Aug 2019

Highlight

• ggtext - Improved text rendering support for {ggplot2}

• Reduce the size of model objects saved to disk

• The Shiny Developer Series

• {arrow}: Apache Arrow R Package

Insights

• Remember the change in the sample() function of R 3.6.0

• Reduce the size of model objects saved to disk

R in the Real World

• The Shiny Developer Series

• Using parallelization, multiple git repositories and setting permissions when automating R applications with Jenkins

• In search of the perfect partial plot

• Creating Excel Workbooks with multiple sheets in R

• How to generate meaningful fake data for learning, experimentation and teaching

• Authorship classification with tidymodels and textrecipes

R in Organizations

• Community Call - Reproducible Workflows at Scale with drake

• rstudio::conf(2020) call for submissions

Resources

• Shiny app: Open Trade Statistics

• R Markdown Workshop

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {arrow}: Apache Arrow R Package

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {pdqr}: Create, transform, and summarize custom random variables with distribution functions (analogues of p*(), d*(), q*(), and r*() functions from base R)

• {ggtext}: Improved text rendering support for {ggplot2}

• {roxytest}: Inline tests with roxygen and testthat.

• {opendatatoronto}: Access the Toronto Open Data Portal API

• {lofi}: Low-fidelity/Low-bit data representations`

Updated Packages

• {ggforce 0.3.0}: A Flurry of Facets

• {mlr 2.15.0}

• {RQuantLib 0.4.10}

Videos and Podcasts

• Interview with Joe Cheng - useR! 2019

• Bayesian Thinking Podcast

• Keeping up with Tidyverse Functions using Tidy Tuesday Screencasts

Tutorials

• tibble subsetting and subassignment

• First part of a series on how I setup this RStudio distill themed blog with Netlify

• Beginners Cookbook for Interactive Visualization in R with highcharter

• Automatic {testthat} test skeletons with new R package {roxytest} extending {roxygen2}

• PowerPoint report generation with Shiny

• {gganimate} your hex!

• Announcing pdqr: package for working with custom distribution functions

• Arguments of stats::density(): Anamated illustrations of how arguments affect output of stats::density()

• #23: Debugging with Docker and Rocker – A Concrete Example helping on macOS

• Causal inference with DAGs in R

• Returning to Tides

• Arguments of stats::density()

• The Colors of xcolor

• Interactive Visualization in R with apexcharter

• Finding duplicates in data frame across columns and replacing them with unique values using R

• How to make Square (Pie) Charts for Infographics in R

• Check your (Mixed) Model for Multicollinearity with ‘performance’

• Shapiro-Wilk Test for Normality in R

• Beginners Cookbook for Interactive Visualization in R with highcharter

• Speeding up Bayesian sampling with map_rect

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Mexico CDSB Workshop 2019, July 29 - August 2 - How to Build and Create Tidy Tools

• R/Pharma Conference 2019, August 21 - 23

• R/Medicine 2019, September 12 - 14

• LatinR 2019, Santiago de Chile, September 25 - 27 - Latinamerican Conference About the Use of R in R&D

• rOpenSci OzUnconf (Sydney, Australia), December 11 - 13 2019

• 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

R Assignment Alignment Chart #rstats

(building in my own opinion regarding `=` 😁) pic.twitter.com/BXfGMJfkcU

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) August 10, 2019

R is quickly becoming the tool of choice for data analysis in science. Lists of excellent resources to learn #rstats have been compiled in multiple places (I will mention here the amazing work of @djnavarro @MattCrump_ and of course @hadleywickham , links below) 1/6

— David Moreau (@davidwmoreau) August 5, 2019