R Weekly 2019-49 R Advent Calendar, {patchwork}, and READMEs

09 Dec 2019

Release Date: 2019-12-09

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

Note

Sorry for the late update. The editor Wenfeng Qin forgot to check the status of the Netlify page build system. I will try to avoid this in the future.

Highlight

• The 25 days of chRistmas: an R advent calendaR

• {patchwork 1.0.0}: The Composer of ggplots

• The Rt of good package READMEs

Insights

• Evaluation of the new palette() for R

• The Rt of good package READMEs

• Managing dependencies in packages

• Introducing Mark Padgham, rOpenSci’s new Software Research Scientist

R in the Real World

• Advent Calendar of Football Trivia Analyses

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

• NHSRdatasets meets runcharter

Resources

• Designing ggplots: making clear figures that communicate

• The 25 days of chRistmas: an R advent calendaR

• 2019 R Package Advent Calendar

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {patchwork 1.0.0}: The Composer of ggplots

• {zipangu 0.1.0}: Utility functions to deal with Japanese data

• {ggplotlyExtra 0.0.1}: Convenience functions for smooth conversion from ‘ggplot’ to ‘plotly’

• {tidygapminder 0.1.0}: Easily import and tidy data sheets retrieved from Gapminder data web tools

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {gggibbous 0.1.0}: Moon charts, a pie chart alternative, for ggplot2

• {rradar 0.2.0}: Animate NOAA NWSRadar Images by Station Id

Updated Packages

• {corporaexplorer 0.8.0}: A ‘Shiny’ App for Exploration of Text Collections.

• {odbc 1.2.0}: A DBI-compatible interface to ODBC databases.

• {learnr 0.10.0}: Create interactive tutorials using R Markdown.

• {leaftime 0.1.2}: Use the ‘leaflet-timeline’ plugin with a leaflet widget

• {blastula 0.3.1}: Easily Send HTML Email Messages

• {GENEAsphere 1.5.1}: Visualisation of Raw or Segmented Accelerometer Data

Tutorials

• WhatsApp Radar Chart: Create a radar chart to visualize your friends posting behavior on WhatsApp

• How to Draw Maps with Hatching Lines in R

• dtplyr and tidyfast are teaming up (well, at least in this blog post)

• Advent of Code 2019-01 with R & JavaScript

• dplyr::ungroup() - forget me not. Part 4.

• R Package for @racently

• How to reorder arrange bars with in each Facet of ggplot

• Introduction to {eurolig}: Analyzing play-by-play and shot location data from the Euroleague

• Counting Arguments in the Tidyverse

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• rOpenSci OzUnconf, December 11-13

• R @ ISSA, December 26

• 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 events

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Jobs

• Research Software Engineer, EcoHealth Alliance, New York, NY

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Knowing so little never felt so fun. #rstats pic.twitter.com/Y51lLVeuCD

— Allison Horst (@allison_horst) December 4, 2019

{drake} 7.8.0 is on CRAN.
Dynamic branching, the most powerful new feature added this year: https://t.co/T9CZMDOSgK
Culminates 2 years of community brainstorming: https://t.co/PJbBdgKk5Q, https://t.co/eFFffEjwLI, https://t.co/e9gGCwSiAx@rOpenSci #rstats pic.twitter.com/tyHufsmepd

— Will Landau (@wmlandau) December 6, 2019

Here it is! The R advent calendaR 🎁

Start learning R tomorrow and by Christmas you will know the basics!https://t.co/NC6mgeAUST

meRRy chRistmas eveRyone! 🎄☺️🎀#Rstats #RadventcalendaR #25daysofR pic.twitter.com/16LYx0QyxZ

— Kiirsti Owen (@KiirstiO) November 30, 2019