R Weekly 2023-W35 S7 0.1.0, Template Files, Web APIs

28 Aug 2023

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

Highlight

• {S7} 0.1.0: An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a Successor to S3 and S4

• Creating template files with R

• A Gradual Introduction to Web APIs and JSON

Insights

• Do more with Excel with openxlsx2 v1.0 Create cool things in Excel

• rOpenSci News Digest, August 2023

R in the Real World

• Time Series Forecasting by Comparing Many Models: EUR/TRY Rates

R in Academia

• Wedding Bayesian and Frequentist Designs Created a Mess

Resources

• Talk on ‘Explainable deep learning for actuarial modelling’

• Exploring Data Distribution in R: A Comprehensive Guide

• A Gradual Introduction to Web APIs and JSON

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {modeldatatoo} 0.2.1: More Data Sets Useful for Modeling Examples

• {hdd} 0.1.1: Easy Manipulation of Out of Memory Data Sets

• {TrialEmulation} 0.0.3.2: Causal Analysis of Observational Time-to-Event Data

• {RTLknitr} 1.0.0: Right to Left Dynamic Documents Using ‘knitr’

• {disk.frame} 0.8.3: Larger-than-RAM Disk-Based Data Manipulation Framework

• {spNetwork} 0.4.3.8: Spatial Analysis on Network

• {syllogi} 1.0.1: Collection of Data Sets for Teaching Purposes

• {periscope2} 0.1.3: Enterprise Streamlined ‘shiny’ Application Framework Using ‘bs4Dash’

• {h3lib} 0.1.0: Exposes the ‘Uber’ ‘H3’ Library to R Packages

• {S7} 0.1.0: An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a Successor to S3 and S4

• {LifemapR} 1.0.4: Data Visualisation on ‘Lifemap’ Tree

• {artpack} 0.1.0: Creates Generative Art Data

• {gitgadget} 0.8.1: ‘Rstudio’ Addin for Version Control and Assignment Management using Git

• {blsBandit} 0.1: Data Viewer for Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

• {shinyCox} 1.0.1: Create ‘shiny’ Applications for Cox Proportional Hazards Models

• {dartRverse} 0.49: Install and Load the ‘dartRverse’ Suits of Packages

• {deepRstudio} 0.0.4: Seamless Language Translation in ‘RStudio’ using ‘DeepL’ API and ‘Rstudioapi’

• {treeDbalance} 1.0.1: Computation of 3D Tree Imbalance

• {tagr} 1.0.0: Tagging and Organizing Objects in R

• {roxyglobals} 1.0.0: ‘Roxygen2’ Global Variable Declarations

• {bootwar} 0.1.0: Nonparametric Bootstrap Test with Pooled Resampling Card Game

• {rmass2} 0.0.0.1: Repeated Measures with Attrition: Sample Sizes and Power Levels for 2 Groups

• {brms.mmrm} 0.0.2: Bayesian MMRMs using ‘brms’

• {scriptloc} 1.0.0: Get the Location of the R Script that is Being Sourced/Executed

• {GWalkR} 0.1.2: Interactive Exploratory Data Analysis Tool

• {micromodal} 1.0.0: Create Simple and Elegant Modal Dialogs in ‘shiny’

• {DominoDataR} 0.2.3: ‘Domino Data R SDK’

• {statcanR} 0.2.6: Client for Statistics Canada’s Open Economic Data

• {VisCollin} 0.1.1: Visualizing Collinearity Diagnostics

• {osmclass} 0.1.3: Classify Open Street Map Features

• {graposas} 1.0.0: Graphical Approach Optimal Sample Size

• {giacR} 1.0.0: Interface to the Computer Algebra System ‘Giac’

• {unicol} 0.1.0: The Colors of your University

• {pfr} 1.0.0: Interface to the ‘C++’ Library ‘Pf’

• {aifeducation} 0.2.0: Artificial Intelligence for Education

• {tidyhte} 1.0.2: Tidy Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

• {packagepal} 0.1.0: Guidelines and Checklists for Building CRAN-Worthy Packages

• {rgho} 3.0.1: Access WHO Global Health Observatory Data from R

• {visit} 2.2: Vaccine Phase I Design with Simultaneous Evaluation of Immunogenicity and Toxicity

Updated Packages

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• {mirai.promises} 0.2.0: Make Mirai Promises in Shiny and Plumber Pipelines

• RcppRedis 0.2.4 on CRAN: Maintenance

• {tmbstan} 1.0.91: MCMC Sampling from ‘TMB’ Model Object using ‘Stan’ - diffify

• {shinytest2} 0.3.1: Testing for Shiny Applications - diffify

• {rlistings} 0.2.4: Clinical Trial Style Data Readout Listings - diffify

• {rworkflows} 0.99.12: Test, Document, Containerise, and Deploy R Packages - diffify

• {Gmisc} 3.0.3: Descriptive Statistics, Transition Plots, and More - diffify

• {holodeck} 0.2.2: A Tidy Interface for Simulating Multivariate Data - diffify

• {PatientProfiles} 0.3.1: Identify Characteristics of Patients in the OMOP Common Data Model - diffify

• {pbr} 0.0.2: Find a Cold One Near You - diffify

• {mvtnorm} 1.2-3: Multivariate Normal and t Distributions - diffify

• {modules} 0.12.0: Self Contained Units of Source Code - diffify

• {tidyseurat} 0.7.2: Brings Seurat to the Tidyverse - diffify

• {piecepackr} 1.13.6: Board Game Graphics - diffify

• {mapplots} 1.5.2: Data Visualisation on Maps - diffify

• {perm} 1.0-0.4: Exact or Asymptotic Permutation Tests - diffify

• {ggDoubleHeat} 0.1.2: A Heatmap-Like Visualization Tool - diffify

• {pandoc} 0.2.0: Manage and Run Universal Converter ‘Pandoc’ from ‘R’ - diffify

• {Rcmdr} 2.9-0: R Commander - diffify

• {qbr} 1.2.3: Access the ‘Quickbase’ JSON API - diffify

• {fplyr} 1.3.0: Apply Functions to Blocks of Files - diffify

• {dreamerr} 1.3.0: Error Handling Made Easy - diffify

• {rsample} 1.2.0: General Resampling Infrastructure - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Nix for R users with {rix} - running an old project with an old R and old packages

• A GPDR-compliant way to import Google fonts in Quarto

• Remove your plot legend and colorize your title instead

• Three easy ways to use better colors in ggplot

• ggplot REMAKE: Dot Plot from PEW Research Center

• Faucet: Fearless asynchronous R/Plumber APIs

Tutorials

• Creating template files with R

• Cross-Tabulation in R: Creating & Interpreting Contingency Tables

• Scrape Yahoo search engine results with R

• New interface to validation splits

R Project Updates

• Will R Work on 64-bit ARM Windows?

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• rOpenSci Call for Champions and Mentors - Applications due September 4, 2023.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Jobs

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Quotes of the Week

When you use the awesome #Barbie theme by @MatthewBJane in #RStats - you have to go all the way and use Barbie icons instead of dots in the #ggplot! The audience might not spot it at first sight … but when they do … pic.twitter.com/7CWlOYsFly

— Tom Broekel (@TBroekel) August 24, 2023

My life loves backpacking so we try to go on some adventures every summer. She always records with Garmin. So I thought, #rstats it up :) #GlacierNationalPark #rspatial pic.twitter.com/B5RM9MDCT4

— Josh Erickson (@joshualerickson) August 19, 2023