R Weekly 2019-22 CRAN policies, Package maintenance, GAMs in R

03 Jun 2019

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

Highlight

• How to keep up with CRAN policies and processes?

• Being a package maintainer or: The social contract

• Generalized Additive Models in R: A Free, Interactive Course using mgcv

Insights

• Being a package maintainer or: The social contract

• Run R startup files once per hour, day, week, …

• How to keep up with CRAN policies and processes?

• 78th TokyoR Meetup Roundup!

• Three reasons why I use data.table

• Type stable estimation

• Top 40 new CRAN packages (April 2019)

R in the Real World

• What pieces do chess grandmasters move, and when?

• Why did the golden age of The Simpsons end? redux - celebrity cameos

• Star Wars Fandom Survey, Part 2: The Three Major Types of Star Wars Fans

R in Academia

• Hierarchical generalized additive models in ecology: an introduction with mgcv

Resources

• Generalized Additive Models in R: A Free, Interactive Course using mgcv

• Data Rectangling Resource Roundup

• Making interactive leaflet maps with R (Slides)

• Getting Started with Git and GitHub for R Users

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• trendyy: A package for querying Google Trends

• see: Visualisation Toolbox for ‘easystats’ and Extra Geoms, Themes and Color Palettes for ‘ggplot2’

• datos: Provides a Spanish translated version of datasets such as ‘airlines’, ‘airports’, ‘babynames’, ‘Batting’, ‘diamonds’, ‘faithful’, ‘flights’, ‘gapminder’, etc.

• ggResidpanel: Panels and Interactive Versions of Diagnostic Plots using ‘ggplot2’

GitHub or Bitbucket

• felp: An R package to display source and help of a function simultaneously

• emayili: Sending Email from R

• annotater: Annotate package load calls in strings and R scripts

Updated Packages

• startup 0.12.0: Friendly R Startup Configuration

Videos and Podcasts

• Tidy Tuesday screencast: predicting wine ratings (David Robinson)

Tutorials

• #Tidytuesday: Global plastic waste management

• Custom profiler in R!

• Exploring R code interactively

• Use R and gganimate to make an animated map of European students and their year-abroad.

• Make a {brickr} soccer player!

• An Introduction to Modelling Soccer Matches in R (part 1)

• Introduction to Funnel Plots

• Automate Your KPI Forecasts With Only 1 Line Of R Code Using AutoTS

• R Rainbows: Making a Pride Flag in R

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Rstudio & ThinkR roadshow – June 6 – Paris

• satRday Berlin, June 15th

• TokyoR #79, June 29th

• useR2019

• 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

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Quotes of the Week

🏳️ 🌈HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 🏳️ 🌈Fun fact: I made my rainbow Twitter banner using R! Here's the code I wrote to make it - let's paint the #rstats Twitter feed rainbow! 🥳 @R_LGBTQ https://t.co/S8FIFgviJu pic.twitter.com/lyZKKNz5zf

— Ben Ackerman (@backerman150) June 1, 2019

In this week's #tidytuesday screencast, I use linear models and lasso regression to predict wine ratings based on price, country, & description🍷

This was a fun example of using tidytext + glmnet together, as well as interpreting models with broom https://t.co/XdnIUptOt9 #rstats pic.twitter.com/zeN2aYiEkq

— David Robinson (@drob) May 31, 2019

ggplot() + geom_antman() 🐜🐜🐜

(Almost done generating figures for the blog post releasing #rayshader's 3D ggplots #rstats) pic.twitter.com/a7UOaYLIyY

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) May 30, 2019