R Weekly 2020-01 Why I use R, 2019 in Review

06 Jan 2020

Release Date: 2020-01-06

Highlight

• Why I use R

• In Review: Your 2019 on Twitter

• Writing Frictionless R Package Wrappers — Building A Basic R Package

Insights

• Object Dectection using YOLO .

• Packages that Sparked Joy in 2019

• dbplyr : A Path to More Inclusive Data Transformations at the ACLU

• Best TidyTuesday 2019

• Why I use R

• Can Genealogical data be tidy?

• Kaggle User Survey Dashboard— 2019

R in the Real World

• Modeling salary and gender in the tech industry

• Access Chez Scheme documentation from the REPL

• Understanding + classifying genres using Spotify audio features

• Real Emojis in ggplot2

• A Bayesian Approach to Ranking English Premier League Teams (using R)

• Analyzing My 2019 GitHub Usage in R

Resources

• In Review: Your 2019 on Twitter

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

Updated Packages

• {waiter 0.1.0}

• {encryptedRmd} — Password protected markdown html reports in R using libsodium

• {details} — Create Details HTML Tag for Markdown and Package Documentation

Videos and Podcasts

• 96 - R in 10 Years

• How to write an R package

Gist & Cookbook

• Releasing and open-sourcing the Using Spark from R for performance with arbitrary code series

• Shiny Production with AWS

R Internationally

• Créer des applications Shiny avec {golem} 🇫🇷

Tutorials

• Visualizing Daniel Johnston’s Music

• Route mapping from GPS files

• Create a dynamic dashboard with R, flexdashboard, and Shiny

• Playing with post-hoc power with R – why we shouldn’t do it

• The birthday paradox puzzle: tidy simulation in R

• Writing Frictionless R Package Wrappers — Introduction

• Writing Frictionless R Package Wrappers — Building A Basic R Package

• mapply and Map in R

• How to make any plot look better

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Thinking about rstudio::conf 2020? See the full conference schedule!

• Tidyverse Dev Day, January 31

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats eventsMore past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

So, what are your 2020 #RStats goals?

— Colin Fay 🤘 (@_ColinFay) January 1, 2020