R Weekly 2020-11 Equity, Shiny Education, Persistent Config

16 Mar 2020

Release Date: 2020-03-16

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

Highlights

• Heather Turner: Moving Forwards Greater Equity and Inclusion in the R Community @ CelebRation 2020

• Shiny Developer Series Episode 9: Shiny Dev Center & Education with Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

• Persistent config and data for R packages

March 2020 ISC call for proposals

“The March 2020 ISC Call for Proposals is now open. Once again, we are looking for ambitious projects that will contribute to the infrastructure of the R ecosystem and benefit large sections of the R community. Our goal is to stimulate creativity and help you turn good ideas into tangible benefits. “ The deadline for submitting a proposal is midnight, April 2, 2020.

• March 2020 ISC call for proposals – Now Open!

Insights

• R 3.6.3 is available, marking the 20th anniversary of R 1.0.0

• Persistent config and data for R packages

• What I’ve learnt about making an R package

• dplyr 1.0.0 is coming soon

• (Re)building the R Bootcamp and generating R tutorials

• What I didn’t expect to learn at satRday

• SPC Charting in R

R in the Real World

• afrimapr: Creating reusable R building blocks for mapping data in Africa in 2020

• Mapping access to services to estimate community resilience – Edina geoforum

• Exploring tidymodels With Hockey Data

• Modeling COVID-19 Spread vs Healthcare Capacity Disclaimer: This simulation is for research and educational purposes only and is not intended to be a tool for decision-making. There are many uncertainties and debates about the details of COVID-19 infection and transmission and there are many limitations to this simple model.

• Retail Data: R Package

R in Organizations

• A hackathon-in-a-box / “cookbook” to help build an R package with custom RMarkdown themes and ggplot2 themes & palettes.

R in Academia

• From Bioconductor users to developers: our first community submission

• Where to publish your Shiny App?

Resources

• R-Ladies Meetups Materials. This Shiny App was generated for the celebration of International Women’s Day 2020.

• Will Landau’s Bash functions

• Zen and the Art of R Package development

• {purrr} beyond map(): my talk at satRday Joburg 2020

• Presentations for satRday Joburg, held on 7th March 2020.

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• NobBS: Nowcasting by Bayesian Smoothing

GitHub or Bitbucket

• texttych, Create interactive text parallels

• examstats, Understand Exam Results

Updated Packages

• roxygen2 7.1.0: a handful of bug fixes + more support knitr-style execution of R code within docs

• cyphr 1.1.0: work with encrypted data from #rstats easily and collaboratively - no major new features but lots of little things that smooth over some rough edges

• RcppAnnoy 0.0.16

• AsioHeaders 1.12.2-1

• RInside 0.2.16

• RcppAPT 0.0.6

Videos and Podcasts

• Heather Turner: Moving Forwards Greater Equity and Inclusion in the R Community @ CelebRation 2020

• Shiny Developer Series Episode 9: Shiny Dev Center & Education with Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

• Preprocessing and resampling using #TidyTuesday college data

• Video Tutorial: Create and Customize a Simple Shiny Dashboard

• Auto-magic Package Development

R Internationally

• 新冠全球历史数据

• Jamais sans ces packages!

Tutorials

• isEven without modulo

• All you need to know to analyse a survey with MCA …

• All you need to know on clustering with Factoshiny…

• Comparing Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Clothing Classes: Part 3

• Explainability of {tidymodels} models with {iml}

• Cross-Methods are a Leak/Variance Trade-Off

• one or two?

• Keep Calm and Use vtreat (in R and in Python)

• Use the Same Cross-Plan Between Steps

• Automate the Creation of an API Wrapper package by Scraping its Online Documentation

• Supercharge your GitHub Actions Experience with tic

• Take a Sad Script & Make it Better: Tidymodels Edition

• Plot outliers and their values

• Rebalancing ruminations

• A deep dive into glmnet: type.gaussian

• Making beautiful bar charts with ggplot2

• Animating U.S. Population Distributions

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• March 18, 2020, 9AM PDT rOpenSci Community Call: Maintaining an R package (online)

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

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

#rstats 4.0.0 has been scheduled for April 24. Details, including nickname, on https://t.co/R4UDX97PPY

Some irregularity may occur due to COVID-19 lockdown in Denmark.

— Peter Dalgaard (@pdalgd) March 12, 2020

We are pleased to announce that the useR! 2021conference will take place in Zurich, Switzerland on 6-9 July 2021. Follow @useR2021zrh for news and updates.https://t.co/MkMatMGRTW

— The R Foundation (@_R_Foundation) March 9, 2020

In light of developments surrounding the global spread of the COVID-19 virus we have decided to postpone the #uRos2020 conference to 2-4 December. Tutorial sessions and UNCONFuRos will take place on 30 November-1 December. More information via https://t.co/d9ARy9yq9y. #rstats

— uRos (@uRosconf) March 9, 2020

Submissions to JOSS are suspended for 30 days to provide relief to authors, editors, and reviewers dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. We plan periodic updates here on our submission status as we reassess the situation. Thanks for your understanding ❤️#JOSS_theOJ pic.twitter.com/VsOrMYr7C1

— JOSS (@JOSS_TheOJ) March 13, 2020