R Weekly 2024-W10 patching R, data.table survey, Doom plots

04 Mar 2024

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

Highlight

• I Patched R to Solve an Exercism Problem

• {data.table} Community Survey: Results and insights

• Doom plots

Insights

• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 10 – contributing to nixpkgs

• I Patched R to Solve an Exercism Problem

• Key advantages of using the keyring package

• Column assignment and reference semantics in {data.table}

• An introvert’s guide to networking at a conference

R in Organizations

• {data.table} Community Survey: Results and insights

• The R Consortium 2023: A Year of Growth and Innovation

• Moffitt Cancer Center Bio-Data Club’s New Chapter in Spatial Data Analysis and Enhanced Hackathon Collaboration

R in Academia

• Knowing Something vs. Knowing the Name of Something: Some Points about Causal Analysis

• What Good is Analysis of Variance?

Resources

• Answering some ‘Forecasting with GAMs in R’ questions

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {ggsankeyfier} 0.1.7: Create Sankey and Alluvial Diagrams Using ‘ggplot2’

• {tidyheatmaps} 0.2.1: Heatmaps from Tidy Data

• {sanketphonetictranslator} 0.1.0: Phonetic Transliteration Between Hindi and English

• {euroleaguer} 0.2.0: ‘Euroleague basketball API’

• {tractor.base} 3.4.2: Read, Manipulate and Visualise Magnetic Resonance Images

• {raybevel} 0.1.2: Generates Polygon Straight Skeletons and 3D Bevels

• {BayesPPDSurv} 1.0.2: Bayesian Power Prior Design for Survival Data

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {verstappenr} 0.1.0: Did Max Verstappen finish first in the most recent F1 event?

• {testpkg} 1.0: Experimental repo for offloading an R package’s test suite to a Git submodule

Updated Packages

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• RcppEigen 0.3.4.0.0 on CRAN: New Upstream, At Last

• ggplot2 3.5.0: Introducing: coord_radial()

• ggplot2 3.5.0: Axes

• ggplot2 3.5.0: Legends

• A bunch of giraffes, all bundled up

• {sysfonts} 0.8.8: Loading Fonts into R - diffify

• {curl} 5.2.1: A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R - diffify

• {nominatimlite} 0.3.0: Interface with ‘Nominatim’ API Service - diffify

• {shinyWidgets} 0.8.2: Custom Inputs Widgets for Shiny - diffify

• {GPUmatrix} 1.0.2: Basic Linear Algebra with GPU - diffify

• {shinyMobile} 1.0.1: Mobile Ready ‘shiny’ Apps with Standalone Capabilities - diffify

• {pointblank} 0.12.0: Data Validation and Organization of Metadata for Local and Remote Tables - diffify

• {intendo} 0.1.1: A Group of Fun Datasets of Various Sizes and Differing Levels of Quality - diffify

• {simhelpers} 0.2.1: Helper Functions for Simulation Studies - diffify

• {RcppCWB} 0.6.4: ‘Rcpp’ Bindings for the ‘Corpus Workbench’ (‘CWB’) - diffify

• {namer} 0.1.8: Names Your ‘R Markdown’ Chunks - diffify

• {zdeskR} 0.4.0: Connect to Your ‘Zendesk’ Data - diffify

• {qrng} 0.0-10: (Randomized) Quasi-Random Number Generators - diffify

• {AmigaFFH} 0.4.5: Commodore Amiga File Format Handler - diffify

• {parallelly} 1.37.1: Enhancing the ‘parallel’ Package - diffify

• {ibmsunburst} 0.1.4: Generate Personality Insights Sunburst Diagrams - diffify

• {retrosheet} 1.1.6: Import Professional Baseball Data from ‘Retrosheet’ - diffify

• {gpboost} 1.3.0: Combining Tree-Boosting with Gaussian Process and Mixed Effects Models - diffify

• {ggraph} 2.2.0: An Implementation of Grammar of Graphics for Graphs and Networks - diffify

• {gganimate} 1.0.9: A Grammar of Animated Graphics - diffify

• {datasauRus} 0.1.8: Datasets from the Datasaurus Dozen - diffify

• {ggedit} 0.4.0: Interactive ‘ggplot2’ Layer and Theme Aesthetic Editor - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• TidyX Episode 174 - AI Speed Ball

• Salt Lake City RUG February 2024 - R Packages

• Better quality of life in R and RStudio

Shiny Apps

• Want To Write Clear End-To-End Tests? Try Cucumber.

Tutorials

• Doom plots

• Du Bois Visualization Challenge 04

• Homicide Rates from Gender Perspective: Analysis using Radar Chart and Bootstrap Intervals

• Setting up a Freesurfer LMM through R

• 3MW (CSS Keywords you need)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• Get ready for posit::conf(2024)!

• Take the tidymodels survey for 2024 priorities

• Help make qualtRics better! Code contributions wanted

• Help users and developers of targets by answering questions!

• Help make assertr better! Come close issues

• BioC 2024 Registration now open

Updates from the R Contribution Working Group (RCWG):

• Announcing R Dev Day @ PLUS, Austria on Friday 12 July. Application deadline Sunday 24 March.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• Join Us for an Evening of Growth and Grit: Data Mishaps Night

• Join our R/Medicine Webinar: Quarto for Reproducible Medical Manuscripts

• Join Us at Shiny Gatherings #11: New Developments in Rhino

• (March 4, 2024) Dataviz lunch: Replicating Du Bois with R

• (March 6, 2024) Master Tidy Finance & Access Financial Data with Expert Christoph Scheuch

• (March 7, 2024) Data Mishaps Night

• (March 14, 2024) Manchester R Meetup

• (April 17-19, 2024) Get Ready for ShinyConf 2024: Explore Keynotes & Secure Your Spot

• (June 21-22, 2024) Cascadia R Conf

• Join our R/Medicine Webinar: Quarto for Reproducible Medical Manuscripts

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• Events at Jumping Rivers 2024

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

Simple but attractive (my opinion!)#rstats #generativeart #plotter pic.twitter.com/TKzqs32CMq

— chris (@dickie_roper) March 3, 2024

Quotes of the Week

Teaching the reverse #rstats assignment operator -> 😎 pic.twitter.com/JcNfxVLv5u

— Lucy D’Agostino McGowan (@LucyStats) March 1, 2024