R Weekly 2024-W15 Nix, webR & visualizing dplyr

08 Apr 2024

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

Highlight

• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 11 – build and cache binaries with Github Actions and Cachix

• webR 0.3.1

• Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations: Visually explore how {dplyr}’s more complex core functions work together to wrangle data

Insights

• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 11 – build and cache binaries with Github Actions and Cachix

• duckplyr: dplyr powered by DuckDB

• 3MW (Tips for the 30 Day Chart Challenge)

• Survival analysis for time-to-event data with tidymodels

• webR 0.3.1

R in Academia

• Avoiding Self Transitions in Gibbs Sampling

• S.P.I.C.E of Causal Inference

Resources

• Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations: Visually explore how {dplyr}’s more complex core functions work together to wrangle data

• R 4 Social Network Analysis (announcement post)

• 6 New books added to Big Book of R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• {pkgGraphR} 0.2.0: Graph the Relationship Between Functions in an R Package

• {SpaDES} 2.0.10: Develop and Run Spatially Explicit Discrete Event Simulation Models

• {testex} 0.1.0: Add Tests to Examples

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {quanteda} 4.0.0: Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data - diffify

• {cheapr} 0.5.0: Simple Functions to Save Time and Memory - diffify

• {promises} 1.3.0: Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming - diffify

• {RSQLite} 2.3.6: SQLite Interface for R - diffify

• {stars} 0.6-5: Spatiotemporal Arrays, Raster and Vector Data Cubes - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Tutorials

• Creating a simple Automator app to launch a new instance of RStudio Desktop on macOS

• Make Your Own NOAA Sea Temperature Graph

• Reading large spatial data

• R Highcharts: How to Make Animated and Interactive Data Visualizations in R

• gssr Update

• A Practical Guide to Merging Data Frames Based on Multiple Columns in R

• WebDev4R: CSS Grid

• Tetley caffeine meter replication with ggplot2

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Unlocking Financial Insights: Join Us at the R Finance Conference

• R/Medicine Coming June 10-14, 2024 – Call for Abstracts Open – Keynotes Announced

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

Shipwrecks of Ireland, 1530 to 2017.#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/soqn2ewDMj

— tterence on bsky (@researchremora) April 4, 2024

Quotes of the Week

And @bolkerb wins April fools. https://t.co/8TQHDayVB1 #rstats

— jebyrnes (he/him) (@jebyrnes) April 1, 2024

Just finished teaching another semester of genomic #datavisualization 🥳

Discover the awesome #dataviz made by students in the class for various #singlecell #spatialtranscriptomics data

Check out the course notes + #Rstats code to explore for yourself: https://t.co/eikhx46fOb pic.twitter.com/ztFQHEvmVL

— Dr. Jean Fan (@JEFworks) April 2, 2024