R Weekly 2019-38 tidyr, ggforce, practicalgg

23 Sep 2019

Highlight

• {tidyr} 1.0.0

• Accelerate your plots with ggforce

• practicalgg - Practical ggplot2

R in the Real World

• Why Machine Learning Is More Practical Than Econometrics In the Real World

• Finding the Modal School District: Inspired by NPR Planet Money’s Modal American Analysis

• Text yourself from #rstats

• Hindi and Other Languages in India based on 2001 census

• Feature-based time series analysis

R in Organizations

• citecorp: working with open citations

R in Academia

• GEO2RNAseq: An easy-to-use R pipeline for complete pre-processing of RNA-seq data

Resources

• Functional Programming + Iterative Web Scraping in R

• Disseminating Research in the 21st Century

• Doing Meta-Analysis in R

• Shiny-Apps-for-Education

• Create or transform variables

• A Graphical Introduction to tidyr’s pivot_*()

• tidyexplain

• Reproducible Research Workflows with Snakemake and R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {ggdag}: Tidy causal DAGs in ggplot2

• {minizdog}: creating zdog 3d illustrations in R`

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {practicalgg}: Practical ggplot2

• {RVerbalExpressions}: make it easier to construct regular expressions using grammar and functionality

• {prismatic}: provide color manipulation tools in R

• {globe4r}: Interactive globes for R via globe.gl.

• {minihtml}: creating HTML documents in R

Updated Packages

• tidyr 1.0.0

• pinp 0.0.9

• RStudio Server Pro 1.2

• digest 0.6.21

• RSwitch 1.5.1

Videos and Podcasts

• TidyTuesday Podcast #4

R Internationally

• (Japanese) Change the number of diagrams dynamically with Shiny!

Tutorials

• Understanding Variance Explained in PCA

• Introduction to renv

• R COMPILER TOOLS FOR RCPP ON MACOS

• ICC Bot comes online

• Practical Data Science with R update

• Obtaining tokens with AzureAuth inside a Shiny app

• The Advantages of Record Transform Specifications

• Data flow visuals – alluvial vs ggalluvial in R

• Tidy evaluation in R: Part 2 - Complex use cases (feat. facet zoom)

• Tidy evaluation in R – Simple Examples

• simulation studies in r with the parsim package

• Functional Programming + Iterative Web Scraping in R

• Accelerate your plots with ggforce

• Retrieving google drive item shares and permissions (in R)

• Fast data exploration for predictive modeling

• Extracting raster values into polygon attributes using R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• ToMexico CDSB Workshop 2019, July 29 - August 2 - How to Build and Create Tidy Tools

• R/Pharma Conference 2019, August 21 - 23

• R/Medicine 2019, September 12 - 14+ LatinR 2019, Santiago de Chile, September 25 - 27 - Latinamerican Conference About the Use of R in R&D

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

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