R Weekly 2023-W41 potools, GitHub Copilot, reproducibility

09 Oct 2023

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

Highlight

• How to translate your package’s messages with {potools}

• GitHub Copilot in Rstudio, it’s finally here!

• An overview of what’s out there for reproducibility with R

Insights

• C++ Q&A for R package developers

• An overview of what’s out there for reproducibility with R

• Q3 2023 tidymodels digest

R in the Real World

• Forecasting Freddie Mac with the DeepAR Algorithm

R in Organizations

• Shiny App Successfully Reviewed by FDA CDER Staff (Pilot 2 Announcement 2)

Resources

• R-Guru.com Cheat Sheet for Statistical Programmers

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {adaR} 0.2.0: A Fast ‘WHATWG’ Compliant URL Parser

• {rglobi} 0.3.4: Interface to Global Biotic Interactions

• {tidyseurat} 0.7.4: Brings Seurat to the Tidyverse

• {wikkitidy} 0.1.10: Tidy Analysis of Wikipedia

GitHub

• {MoMAColors 0.0.0.9000}: Color Palettes Inspired by Artwork at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City

• {cesium} 0.1.0: Create Interactive 3D Space-Time Visualisations with the JavaScript ‘Cesium’ Library

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {cbioportalR} 1.1.0: Browse and Query Clinical and Genomic Data from cBioPortal

• {listviewer} 4.0.0: ‘htmlwidget’ for Interactive Views of R Lists

• {gt} 0.10.0: Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R

• {testthat} 3.2.0: Unit Testing for R

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• GitHub Copilot in Rstudio, it’s finally here!

Shiny Apps

• Understanding the Two Characteristics the Correlation Coefficient Captures

Tutorials

• How to Translate a Hugo Blog Post with Babeldown

• How to translate your package’s messages with {potools}

• The Most Unexpectedly Good and Bad TV Episodes

• Diffusion models in ESGtoolkit + announcements

• How to use R in Google Colab?

• checks and {tiny}testing - a quick primer

• Enneper surface with square checkerboard

• Working With Legacy Code: Extending Shiny Modules with the Sprout Technique and Test Driven Development

• Creating Interactive Radar Charts in R with the ‘fmsb’ Library

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Shiny In Production: 12-13th October

• LatinR 2023 - Latin American Conference on the Use of R in R&D: 18th October

• Network Analysis with R workshop: 26th October

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Datasets

• Preprocessing the Norwegian Web as Corpus (NoWaC) in R

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

My new spike map shows the 2022 population density of the Iberian peninsula🇵🇹🇪🇸#iberia #españa🇪🇸 #Portuguesa🇵🇹 #spain #portugal #RStats #DataScience #dataviz #datavisualization #visualization #mapping #cartography #maps #gischat #gis #rayshader #geography #population #world pic.twitter.com/1lTxMhDzy5

— Milos Makes Maps (@milos_agathon) October 5, 2023

Testing morphing of the fern #generativeart. With he the magical #magick 📦There is so many use case for this! #rstats #rtistry colors #wesanderson BottleRocket/Darjeeling pic.twitter.com/zG5KD1ZMMj

— Abiyu Giday (@abiyugiday) September 23, 2023

Quotes of the Week

New paper! 📈
Why do kids born into poverty in rural areas climb the income ladder at higher rates than their urban peers? Answer: rural boys, who benefit from life in small places with more two-parent households.https://t.co/yBObBQHX2S#AcademicTwitter #EconTwitter #rstats 1/8 pic.twitter.com/SidcGJnUSv

— Dylan Connor (@Dylligent) October 5, 2023

💡Use stringr::str_detect() to detect a matching string pattern.

🔎 More on str_detect: https://t.co/sVuhvzWDm8

🌊🐄 More on dugongs: https://t.co/JWj7WeQm9Y#rstats pic.twitter.com/RTZuVxkcMF

— Allison Horst (@allison_horst) September 30, 2023