R Weekly 2020-05 rstudio::conf 2020 - debugging, ggeasy, GitHub actions

03 Feb 2020

Release Date: 2020-02-03

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

Highlight

• Object of type ‘closure’ is not subsettable

• ggeasy: Easy access to ggplot2 commands

• GitHub Actions for the R language

Insights

• RStudio, PBC

• Lessons Learned from My First MiniCompetion

• How Rmarkdown changed my life

• Becoming an R blogger

• Learning R with Humorous Side Projects

• Technical Debt is a Social Problem

• The Glamour of Graphics

• RMarkdown Driven Development

• UnicoRns are real

R in the Real World

• Scraping the Sugarcoat: Webscraping Rubik’s Cube Competition Results!

• Dynamic discrete choice models, reinforcement learning and Harold, part 1

• Does Australia need More Fires (but the Right Kind)? A Multi-Agent Simulation

• The significance of gender on the salary in Sweden, a comparison between different occupational groups

• Lewis Carroll’s proposed rules for tennis tournaments by @ellis2013nz

R in Organizations

• How NHS-R Community do The Apprentice…

• R Consortium Simplifies Membership Structure to Increase Opportunities for Silver Level Members

• Approaches to Assay Processing Package Validation

R in Academia

• The transmissibility of novel Coronavirus in the early stages of the 2019-20 outbreak in Wuhan: Exploring initial point-source exposure sizes and durations using scenario analysis

• The Rockerverse: Packages and Applications for Containerization with R - Daniel Nüst, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Dom Bennett, et al.

• On the relationship of the sample size and the correlation

• Call BEAST2 for Bayesian evolutionary analysis from R

• Supplement to ‘Nonparametric estimation of the service time distribution in discrete-time queueing networks’

• another easy Riddler

• Do my data follow a normal distribution ? A note on the most widely used distribution and how to test for normality in R

• An Intuitive Look at Binomial Probability in a Bayesian Context

Resources

• RStudio::Conf 2020 Slides

• Object of type ‘closure’ is not subsettable

• Code examples in the R package manuals

• Teacups, Giraffes, & Statistics

• GitHub Actions for the R language

• 15+ Resources to Get Started with R

• Reaping the benefits of the Shiny community (and how you can help too!)

• AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: January 2020

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• ggeasy: Easy access to ggplot2 commands

• wrapr 1.9.6 is now up on CRAN

• sharpshootR: A Soil Survey Toolkit

• soilDB: Soil Database Interface

GitHub or Bitbucket

• tidymodules: An object-oriented approach to Shiny modules

• rco: Make Your R Code Run Faster Today!

• bootstraplib: Tools for styling shiny and rmarkdown from R via Boostrap (3 or 4) Sass

Updated Packages

• sparklyr 1.1: Foundations, Books, Lakes and Barriers

• Software Updates: bootnet 1.3 and psychonetrics 0.5

• {drake} 7.10.0: A Pipeline Toolkit for Reproducible Computation at Scale

• {cabninets}: Project Specific Workspace Organization Templates

Videos and Podcasts

• Residual Snippets: An informal and free-flowing audio series about R, data science, and the world of open-source

R Internationally

• 번역: 초보자를 위한 RStudio 의 프로젝트 와 작업 디렉토리

• Análises sobre SICONF: Despesas com educação x IDEB

Tutorials

• Styling Shiny apps

• Programming with data.table

• Getting Things Logged

• Evaluate your R model with MLmetrics

• R as a tool for Systems Administration

• Six Things I Always Google When Using ggplot2

• Monitoring Website SSL/TLS Certificate Expiration Times with R, {openssl}, {pushoverr}, and {DT}

• Don’t Repeat Yourself!

• finding truffles

• Create a Notebook to Explore Country-Level CO2 Emissions With a Few Clicks

• Shiny CRUD

• Beginners guide to Bubble Map with Shiny

• Monsters

• An efficient way to install and load R packages

• Spruce up your ggplot2 visualizations with formatted text

• Bridging the gap between SQL and R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Intro to R for Plant Pathologists, Feb 19

• satRday Johannesburg 2020

• satRday Newcastle upon Tyne, April the 4th, Call for speakers for #satRdayNCL closes 31st Jan.

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Jobs

• Wanted: weirdos with good communication skills

Call for Participation

• Building the R Community in Southern Africa

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Dear Travis,

I think maybe we should just be friends. It's not you, it's me.

(Okay, it's you. And @jimhester_ just introduced me to https://t.co/pHGnSG3lDg)

Signed,
Build #73 is still failing#rstudioconf2020

— garrickAdenBuie (@grrrck) January 29, 2020

Probably the first time that FOUR R Weekly (@rweekly_org) newsletter editors met up at a single conference? Some of us still have some #RWeekly hex stickers if you’re interested in one 😉 #rstats #RStudioConf2020 pic.twitter.com/p1phKeoT0k

— ⚽️Ryo Nakagawara📊 (@R_by_Ryo) January 31, 2020