R Weekly 2023-W30 ggplots, debugging, HTML + CSS as an R programmer

24 Jul 2023

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

Highlight

• Jazz up your ggplots!

• Tips for debugging and cleaning broken code

• Four reasons to learn HTML + CSS as an R programmer

Insights

• Four reasons to learn HTML + CSS as an R programmer

  

• qlcal 0.0.7 on CRAN: QuantLib 1.31 Updates

• Q2 2023 tidymodels digest

R in the Real World

• Probabilistic forecasting for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023

Resources

• Beyond Item Response Theory: Growth Curve Modeling of Latent Variables with Bayes

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {vvshiny} 0.1.1: Create Complex Shiny Apps More Easily

• {cocktailApp} 0.2.3: ‘shiny’ App to Discover Cocktails

• {remmy} 0.1.0: API Client for ‘Lemmy’

• {colouR} 0.1.0: Create Colour Palettes from Images

• {badgen} 1.0.0: Fast and Simple Badge Generator

• {tagtools} 0.1.0: Work with Data from High-Resolution Biologging Tags

• {quickcode} 0.1: A Compilation of Some Frequently Used R Functions

• {bioRad} 0.7.1: Biological Analysis and Visualization of Weather Radar Data

• {chem16S} 1.0.0: Chemical Metrics of Community Reference Proteomes

• {AtlasMaker} 0.1.0: Make Multiple ‘leaflet’ Maps in ‘Shiny’

• {ediblecity} 0.2.1: Modeling Urban Agriculture at City Scale

GitHub or Bitbucket

• chinadevfin2

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {igraph} 1.5.0.1: Network Analysis and Visualization - diffify

• {viridis} 0.6.4: Colorblind-Friendly Color Maps for R - diffify

  

• {hypothesis} 1.1.0: Wrapper for ‘hypothes.is’ - diffify

• {seriation} 1.5.1: Infrastructure for Ordering Objects Using Seriation - diffify

• {rsconnect} 1.0.1: Deploy Docs, Apps, and APIs to ‘Posit Connect’, ‘shinyapps.io’, and ‘RPubs’ - diffify

• {snowquery} 1.0.0: Query ‘Snowflake’ Databases with ‘SQL’ - diffify

• {spatstat.geom} 3.2-4: Geometrical Functionality of the ‘spatstat’ Family - diffify

• {text2speech} 1.0.0: Text to Speech Conversion - [diffify]

• {pkgdepends} 0.6.0: Package Dependency Resolution and Downloads - diffify

• {arrow} 12.0.1.1: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’ - diffify

• {RNiftyReg} 2.8.1: Image Registration Using the ‘NiftyReg’ Library - diffify

• {remotes} 2.4.2.1: R Package Installation from Remote Repositories, Including ‘GitHub’ - diffify

• {rstantools} 2.3.1.1: Tools for Developing R Packages Interfacing with ‘Stan’ - diffify

• {V8} 4.3.3: Embedded JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine for R - diffify

• {promor} 0.2.1: Proteomics Data Analysis and Modeling Tools - diffify

• {onmaRg} 1.0.3: Import Public Health Ontario’s Ontario Marginalization Index - [diffify]

• {simmer.plot} 0.1.18: Plotting Methods for ‘simmer’ - diffify

• {cargo} 0.4.9: Develop R Packages using Rust - diffify

• {Rfast2} 0.1.5: A Collection of Efficient and Extremely Fast R Functions II - diffify

• {vvtableau} 0.2.0: R Interface for ‘Tableau’ Services - diffify

• {polyglotr} 1.2.0: Translate Text - diffify

• {nrba} 0.2.0: Methods for Conducting Nonresponse Bias Analysis (NRBA) - diffify

• {r2dictionary} 0.2: A Mini-Dictionary for ‘R’, ‘Shiny’ and ‘Rmarkdown’ Documents - diffify

• {ctrdata} 1.14.0: Retrieve and Analyze Clinical Trials in Public Registers - diffify

• {APackOfTheClones} 0.1.3: Visualization of T-Cell Clonal Expansion - diffify

• {ravetools} 0.1.2: Signal and Image Processing Toolbox for Analyzing Intracranial ‘Electroencephalography’ Data - diffify

• {onbrand} 1.0.3: Templated Reporting Workflows in Word and PowerPoint - diffify

• {ggpp} 0.5.3: Grammar Extensions to ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {meteor} 0.4-5: Meteorological Data Manipulation - diffify

• {AMR} 2.1.0: Antimicrobial Resistance Data Analysis - diffify

• {move2} 0.2.2: Processing and Analysing Animal Trajectories - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Shiny Modules in 100 Seconds

• Perfect Bar Charts in 150 Seconds

• Avoid duplicate code with powerful functions in 150 seconds

• Use functions instead of for-loops in 150 seconds

• Use dumbbell plots instead of paired bar charts in 130 seconds

• Fix stacked bar charts in seconds

• 7 strategies to import & clean messy Excel files in R

• Data wrangling in a single step with across()

• Stop making messy line charts and create meaningful plots instead

• A DEAD-SIMPLE STRATEGY to style your Quarto docs without knowing HTML & CSS

• An easy way to style your Quarto docs without knowing HTML & CSS

Tutorials

• Stacked line chart with inline labels

• Jazz up your ggplots!

  

• Tips for debugging and cleaning broken code

• fusen v0.5: Gotta inflate ’em all !

• Classification metrics for #TidyTuesday GPT detectors

• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 2 – running {targets} pipelines with Nix

• Supervised Topic Modeling for Short Texts: My Workflow and A Worked Example

• An automated model home page with GitHub

• datasetR – R package for creating datasets

• Coefficient of Variation in R

• Generate multiple presentations with Quarto parameters

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

useR! 2024 will be a hybrid conference, taking place 8-11 July in Salzburg, Austria. For updates follow @[email protected] on Mastodon, @_useRconf on Twitter, or user-conf on LinkedIn.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Shiny in Production 2023

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• posit::conf(2023) (formerly rstudio::conf) - September 17-20, 2023

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Quotes of the Week

No matter how long I’ve been doing data science, I still get smacked in the face every once in a while.

True story. 🧵#rstats #datascience pic.twitter.com/Sl918tryf0

— Matt Dancho (Business Science) (@mdancho84) July 22, 2023