R Weekly 2020-16 cross-platform package checks, exploring {ggpattern}, and the football xG model

20 Apr 2020

Release Date: 2020-04-20

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

Highlight

• Automating R package checks across platforms with GitHub Actions and Docker in a portable way

• {ggpattern} An exploration with {flipbookr} and {xaringan}

• Fitting your own football xG model

Insights

• Dr. Julia Silge InteRview

• The Seven Key Things You Need To Know About dplyr 1.0.0

• Where does the output of Rscript go?

• Saving R Graphics across OSs

• Setting the Graphics Device in a RMarkdown Document

• 2020-02 The Agony and the Ecstacy: Adding LuaTeX support to ‘dvir’

• Effective Visualizations for Credible, Data-Driven Decision Making

• Examining Aphex Twin’s Eclectic Discography With the Spotify API and Generalized Variance

• Pragmatic prediction intervals from a quasi-likelihood GLM by @ellis2013nz

• Automating R package checks across platforms with GitHub Actions and Docker in a portable way

• Learning Data Science: Understanding ROC Curves

• Some basics and intuition behind GAN’s in R and Python

• Upset Plots

R in the Real World

• Extracting eBird Data from a Polygon

• State Unemployment Claims

• Fitting your own football xG model

COVID19

• OZCoViz: An Australian focus with an international perspective

• Effective reproduction number estimation

• RStudio and COVID-19

Resources

• {ggpattern} An exploration with {flipbookr} and {xaringan}

• Forecasting Best Practices, from Microsoft

• Hosting a Virtual useR Meetup - R Consortium

• rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.4.0: Updates

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {fawkes 0.1.0}: Provides an R API to control the AxiDraw pen plotter

• {colorscale 0.1.0}: Create a Color Scale from a Single Color

Updated Packages

• {geniusr 1.2.0}

• {psychonetrics} 0.7, meta-analysis preprint and online SEM course

• gettz 0.0.4

• RcppArmadillo 0.9.860.2.0

• {ghibli 0.3.2}

• {dodgr 0.2.6}

Videos and Podcasts

• R Tutorial - Creating Enhanced Bar charts in ggplot and RStudio

• Turning numeric into single-choice exercises with R/exams

• #25: Test, test, test, … those R 4.0.0 binaries with Ubuntu 20.04 and Rocker

• PCA and the #TidyTuesday best hip hop songs ever

• Sentiment Analysis in R with {sentimentr} that handles Negation and other Valence Shifters

• How to make Powepoint Slides PPT using RStudio in 2020

Gist & Cookbook

• HipHop History - Hits of All Time - TidyTuesday 2020/16

Tutorials

• Biterm topic modelling for short texts

• The ‘spam comments’ puzzle: tidy simulation of stochastic processes in R

• Tidymodels: tidy machine learning in R

• Calibrating time zones: an early bird or a night owl?

• Supercharging RStudio

• Functional Programming for Artists and Scientists

• Juxtapose ML models in the Arena. Let the most credible one win!

• Linear model, xgboost and randomForest cross-validation using crossval::crossval_ml

• nimbleEcology: custom NIMBLE distributions for ecologists

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Paul Murrell, Thomas Lin Pedersen: Changes to ‘grid’ units

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• May 23rd, 85th (Virtual/Online) TokyoR Meetup

• 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

Data Scientist fighting messy data, 2020, colorized #rstats

Thanks to @favstats for giving me the idea and motivation to finish this. :) pic.twitter.com/guGpFFtF5V

— Vivi (@ViviFabrien) April 18, 2020

I think my favourite thing about making my art code available is that I get to see all the gorgeous things people make with it 😍 https://t.co/sOyeZ4n0mT

— Danielle Navarro (@djnavarro) April 14, 2020

Friendly reminder to myself that janitor::clean_names() exists and is awesome. #rstats pic.twitter.com/bRnKfcYiRT

— Tyler Clavelle (@tclavL) April 13, 2020