R Weekly 2024-W24 R dialects, small git commits, fast geocoding

10 Jun 2024

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

Highlight

• Two Roads Diverged: Opinions on “dialects” in R

• Why you need small, informative Git commits

• Making a Ridiculously Fast™ API Client

Insights

• Two Roads Diverged: Opinions on “dialects” in R

• The igraph R package crossed the 2.0 threshold!

• Why you need small, informative Git commits

• Making a Ridiculously Fast™ API Client

• 3MW (RStudio productivity hacks)

• Boost Your Shiny App’s Code Quality with {box.linters} in {rhino} 1.8.0

• From scripts to package. Developing dendroNetwork and learning with rOpenSci

R in the Real World

• Public Pinball Machines per Capita: A new global indicator

• Team Strength: A CanMNT Snapshot

• The Sanctuary: Stats and data from {survivoR}

• Causal Inference: Technology Stocks Surge

• Estimating Shooting Performance Unlikeliness: Quantifying how unlikely a player’s season-long shooting performance is, factoring in their prior shot history

R in Organizations

• Full-time Korea R User Group Founder Victor Lee Sees AI Future for R and Quarto Textbooks

Resources

• Cleaning Medical Data in R

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {baf} 0.0.1: Block Assignment Files

• {goodpractice} 1.0.5: Advice on R Package Building

• {ggarrow} 0.1.0: Arrows for ‘ggplot2’

• {geostan} 0.6.2: Bayesian Spatial Analysis

• {DNAmotif} 0.1.0: DNA Sequence Motifs

Bioconductor

• {shiny.gosling} 1.0.1: A Grammar-based Toolkit for Scalable and Interactive Genomics Data Visualization for R and Shiny

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {litedown} 0.0.20: A Lightweight Version of R Markdown

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {mirai} 1.1.0: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R - diffify

• {nanonext} 1.1.0: R binding for NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen) - diffify

• {santoku} 1.0.0: A versatile cutting tool

• {ulid} 0.4.0: Generate Universally Unique ‘Lexicographically’ ‘Sortable’ Identifiers - diffify

• {odbc} 1.5.0: Connect to ODBC Compatible Databases (using the DBI Interface) - diffify

• {openxlsx2} 1.7: Read, Write and Edit ‘xlsx’ Files - diffify

• {hardhat} 1.4.0: Construct Modeling Packages - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• SDS 790: Open-Source Libraries for Data Science at the New York R Conference

Shiny Apps

• A decade of parkrun

Tutorials

• Geocode from R using {arcgisgeocode}

• Coloured text in {ggplot2}: {ggtext} vs {marquee}

• Why you shouldn’t use boxplots

• Converting formatting in spreadsheets into usable data

• simstudy: another way to generate data from a non-standard density

• Simple custom colour palettes with R ggplot graphs

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• June 2024 Training Update

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Polytomous Latent Class Analysis and Regression in R workshop - July 3

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• posit::conf(2024) - August 12 - 14

• Cascadia R Conference 2024

Connect

Join the Data Science Learning Community

rtistry

#TidyTuesday week 23: Cheese #Rstats #dataviz #ggplot

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— Deepali Kank (@deepali.bsky.social) Jun 5, 2024 at 1:12 AM

Quotes of the Week

this is how it feels cleaning data with dplyr
pic.twitter.com/dAWseNRZXb

— Carlos Alberto Haro (@haro_ca_) June 6, 2024

Things are coming together in this summer's project to bring @Mapbox GL JS v3 to #rstats...

Seamless 3D terrain visualization of the globe, straight from your R console to your RStudio Viewer

Still a ways to go, but excited about the direction it's going... pic.twitter.com/8nsjZPky5P

— Kyle Walker (@kyle_e_walker) June 8, 2024

The plot thickens! SQL/SEQUEL was developed to manipulate a database called…. wait for it …. System R#rstats https://t.co/DZhqHTzbtY pic.twitter.com/KHbUBdep1R

— Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter216) June 6, 2024