R Weekly 2019-36 PDF tables, tvthemes & Rstudio themes

09 Sep 2019

Highlight

• Making tables in PDF using R: A guide on making tables in PDF using RMarkdown and LaTeX.

• {tvthemes 1.0.0} is on CRAN: Code improvements, Kim Possible, Stannis Baratheon, Hilda palettes/themes, and more!

• A curated list of RStudio themes found on Github

Insights

• Data Chats: From Physics student to Data Science Consultant

• A shallow benchmark of R data frame export/import methods

R in the Real World

• Simulating the Rugby World Cup 2019 Japan in R

• Public Data Dive: Canada’s Elections

Resources

• A curated list of RStudio themes found on Github

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {ggpointdensity 0.1.0}: A cross between a scatter plot and a 2D density plot

• {distributions3 0.1.1}: Provides a generic function interface to probability distributions

• {tvthemes 1.0.0}: TV Show Themes and Color Palettes for ‘ggplot2’ Graphics

• {ggraph 2.0.0}: An extension of ggplot2 that implements an extended grammar for relational data

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {loadtest}: Automates performance testing of ML models and summarizes the results in a dashboard

Updated Packages

• getTBinR - more tuberculosis data, ggplot2 best practices and bug fixes

• {GSODR 2.0.0}

• {ghibli 0.3.0}

• {bench 1.0.4}

Videos and Podcasts

• #TidyTuesday Podcast #2: Moore’s Law

R Internationally

• How to do Tamil Text Analysis & NLP in R

Tutorials

• Making pretty note boxes: A div tip for all occasions

• Turn your Reports into Functions!

• Making tables in PDF using R: A guide on making tables in PDF using RMarkdown and LaTeX.

• {tvthemes 1.0.0} is on CRAN: Code improvements, Kim Possible, Stannis Baratheon, Hilda palettes/themes, and more!

• UCSCXenaTools: Retrieve Gene Expression and Clinical Information from UCSC Xena for Survival Analysis

• Dygraphs

• Create an Icon Map in R with ggmap and ggimage

• Advanced Data Reshaping in Python and R

• Exploratory Data Analysis with Tables

• Poisson point processes, mass shootings and clumping

• One week as a Shiny dev, seen through Google search

• R for Clinical Trial Reporting

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• R/Medicine 2019, September 12 - 14

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

• Tokyo.R #81, September 28

• Why R? 2019 Conference - Warsaw 26-29 September 2019

• rOpenSci OzUnconf (Sydney, Australia), December 11 - 13 2019

• 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! 💡

• Deadline extended for rstudio::conf(2020) abstract submissions

Quotes of the Week

Summer day probability (maximum temperature > 25ºC) through the year in #Australia. @BOM_au

#summerday #climate #weather #rstats pic.twitter.com/DGoP04EpgW

— Dominic Royé (@dr_xeo) September 4, 2019

A New Vision of the World Population in a Borderless World #cartography #NoBorders #neocarto #D3js #Rstatshttps://t.co/j1MJAAn2ob pic.twitter.com/tSXUWX6jNZ

— Cartographe encarté (@nico_lambert) September 4, 2019