R Weekly 2020-15 {gt 0.2.0}, {dplyr 1.0.0}, {ggpacman 0.1.0}

13 Apr 2020

Release Date: 2020-04-13

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

Highlight

• {gt 0.2.0}: Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R

• {dplyr 1.0.0}: working within rows

• {ggpacman 0.1.0}: A ggplot2 and gganimate Version of Pac-Man

Insights

• Dataviz and the 20th Anniversary of R, an Interview With Hadley Wickham

• Thomas Lumley InteRview

• Retries in API packages and reinventing the wheel

• {dplyr 1.0.0}: working within rows

• 10 Things We Learned in Creating the Blog Guide with bookdown

R in the Real World

• Repaying Tom Nook with {R6}

• Scraping GDPR Fines

• How far are cyclists willing to go to use a cycling path? Part 1 - Graphhopper

COVID-19

• How to make that crazy Fox News y axis chart with ggplot2 and scales

• (Japanese) COVID-19 Tokyo Daily De-facto Population

• Number of COVID-19 Infections by Prefecture (Japan)

• COVID-19 USA State-Level Policy Data

• Scraping Google Covid-19 community movement data from PDF figures

Resources

• R programming in the Windows Subsystem for Linux - A comprehensive guide to setup an R development environment for Ubuntu running in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

• Interactive dashboard of COVID-19 cases in Japan

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {gt 0.2.0}: Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {ggCyberPunk}: Cyberpunk themed geoms for ggplot2

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{tabularmaps}: Tabular maps with R

• {ggpacman 0.1.0}: A ggplot2 and gganimate Version of Pac-Man

• {jpcovid19}: Utilities to clean and visualize Japan COVID-19 data

• {ComplexUpset}: A library for creating complex UpSet plots with ggplot2 geoms

• {coronaobj}: Generate customized, scientifically accurate 3D models of SARS CoV-2

• {flametree}: Generative artwork that looks a bit like trees

Updated Packages

• {fs 1.4.1}

• {glue 1.4.0}

• {tibble 3.0.0}

• {exams 2.3.6}

• {effectsize 0.3.0}

• {usethis 1.6.0}

Videos and Podcasts

• Robust estimation with tidymodels bootstrap resampling

• aRt programming: A series of videos describing how to create a new generative art system in R

• Getting Started with R + StatsBomb - Analyzing Squad Rotation & Clustering Passes

R Internationally

• brickrパッケージを利用してAnimal Crossingのマイデザインを作った

Tutorials

• R base plotting without wrappers

• Racing Barplots with {ggpattern}, {flagon} & {gganimate}

• Getting started in R markdown

• Many ways of reading data into R - 1

• Getting started in R with StatsBomb Data

• Data cleaning with Kamehamehas in R

• Visualize climate anomalies

• H is for {haven}

• Need a good RStudio Alternative? Try VSCode R

• How to basic: bar plots

• Android Smartphone Analysis in R [Code + Video]

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• April 16th, (Virtual/Online) R-Ladies Cape Town

• 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.

Datasets

• {tdf}: Tour de France winners and stages data

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Students struggle with install vs library every semester, and keep including their install code in the RMarkdown report. Hope this meme might help in the future #rstats pic.twitter.com/I8xg053y0x

— Dianne Cook (@visnut) April 9, 2020

📦gghighlight📦is a delight. Thank you @yutannihilat_en 🥳🎉!!!

Check out some cool added features in gghighlight 0.2.0: https://t.co/YV1BrVYPR6 #rstats pic.twitter.com/dIANwfOZsn

— Allison Horst (@allison_horst) April 11, 2020

Pssssttt..... hey kids.... wanna learn some Advanced Statistical Computing with R?@hglanz and I are making our course materials public. We'd like to invite you to follow along with our superstar Cal Poly students over the next 9 weeks:https://t.co/zpIsYMDYHu#rstats

— Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) April 6, 2020