R Weekly 2019-47 palette(), artist, {curlparse}

25 Nov 2019

Release Date: 2019-11-25

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

Highlights

• A New palette() for R

• Our first artist in residence: Allison Horst!

• {curlparse}: Parse URLs with libcurl

Insights

• dplyr::ungroup() - forget me not: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

• Experiments in transforming Excel into R

• With the right tools, it is possible to use R with seventh-grade students

• SatRday Cardiff recap

• XI Conference of R Users (Madrid, Spain, Nov 14-16) Welcomes Over 200 Attendees

• A new kid on the NHS-R block

• Shiny Dev, Software Release Cycles, Rayshader

R in the Real World

• Visualizing the Premier League So Far, Part 1: Overview with xPts Tables and xG Plots

• Streetmaps: Create a streetmap of your favorite city with ggplot2 and powerpoint

R in Organizations

• R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee Chair Wins 2019 COPSS Presidents’ Award

Resources

• Exploratory Data Analysis with R Workshop (@University of Milan)

• R for better science with less time

• Designing ggplots: making clear figures that communicate

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• lightr: Read Spectrometric Data and Metadata

• uchardet: The Universal Character Encoding Detector

GitHub or Bitbucket

• tdor: data package for Transgender Day of Remembrance

• cicerone: Provides an easy API to create guided tours for Shiny applications using driver.js.

• Giftmap: A very simple package with just one function for creating maps suitable for gifting

• ggtailwind: Package for applying Tailwind CSS default colours to ggplot2 visualizations

Updated Packages

• ttdo 0.0.4: Extension

• skimr 2.0: Compact and Flexible Summaries of Data

• digest 0.6.23: More sha1 refinements

• boxr 0.3.5: Interface to the Box file-service

Videos and Podcasts

• Introduction au package {golem} (in French)

R Internationally

• 进化树和基因组结构

• 拼图？我掐指一算，发现事情没那么简单！

• cowplot是旧爱，patchwork乃新欢

Tutorials

• #30DayMapChallenge: 30 days building maps (3) - Earth is spherical

• Rammstein vs. Lacrimosa

• Galton’s board all askew

• Can I do that? Inspiration from Flowing Data

• step_shadow_missing - implementing a custom {recipes} step to account for missing data patterns

• Plotting GAMM results with ggplot2

• Racing Bar Charts and Some data.table Munging

• Visualising the evolution of the world development indicators during the past decade with R Shiny

• A new option to display Census API calls from {tidycensus}

• Animated violation maps of Bratislava. Animated maps using open data, gganimate, ggmap in R.

• Cost-benefit analysis in R by @ellis2013nz

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• rOpenSci community call: Community Call: Last Night, Testing Saved my Life, December 5

• Yes We Cran: A conference on R packages and their applications, December 6-8

• BioC Asia, December 5-6

• Japan.R 2019, December 7

• rOpenSci OzUnconf, December 11-13

• R @ ISSA, December 26

• 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.

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Incase you missed it - we've released our call for #rstats abstracts for #useR2020. Please consider submitting a talk lighting talk, and poster. Student and first-time submissions are welcome and encouraged! https://t.co/mM3cZqMlEf

— useR! 2020 (@useR2020stl) November 21, 2019

We are partnering with #RLadies to support #useR2020 submissions from members of underrepresented genders in the #rstats community (including but not limited cis/trans women, trans men, non-binary, genderqueer, agender). Please submit your work! Details are 👇 https://t.co/SuN7T3PQE1

— useR! 2020 (@useR2020stl) November 21, 2019

Some Thanksgiving #rstats doodles 🦃 pic.twitter.com/aKiKUL3vqR

— Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti (@ChelseaParlett) November 23, 2019