R Weekly 2024-W08 Bike Riding, Suggests, Guess My Name

18 Feb 2024

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

Highlight

• My Year of Riding Danishly

• Tame your namespace with a dash of suggests

• Guess My Name with Decision Trees

Insights

• Tame your namespace with a dash of suggests

• Reading notes on Producing open source software by Karl Fogel (First edition)

• raw strings

• httr2::req_perform_stream

• Aggregating Measures of Uncertainty

R in the Real World

• My Year of Riding Danishly

• Guess My Name with Decision Trees

• Understanding Methane Emissions Through Heatmap and Comparison of Many Models

• Baking the cake dataset cake

R in Organizations

• Ann Arbor R User Group: Harnessing the Power of R and GitHub

• Introducing rOpenSci Champions - Cohort 2023-2024

R in Academia

• The Meta-Uncertainty Framework

Resources

• R/Insurance Series: For Everyone in Insurance or Actuarial Science

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {mmiCATs} 0.1.0: Cluster Adjusted t Statistic Applications

• {circlesplot} 1.0.0: Visualize Proportions with Circles in a Plot

• {valentine} 2024.2.14: Spread the Love for R Packages with Poetry

• {ggtibble} 1.0.0: Create Tibbles and Lists of ‘ggplot’ Figures for Reporting

• {fastTS} 0.1.2: Fast Time Series Modeling with the Sparsity Ranked Lasso

• {teal} 0.15.0: Exploratory Web Apps for Analyzing Clinical Trials Data

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {quartificate} 0.0.0.9000: Transform Google Docs into Quarto books.

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {ggmagnify} 0.4.0: Create a Magnified Inset of Part of a “Ggplot” Object

• {RcppArmadillo} 0.12.8.0.0: ‘Rcpp’ Integration for the ‘Armadillo’ Templated Linear Algebra Library - diffify

• {survivoR} 2.3.1: Data from all Seasons of Survivor (US) TV Series in Tidy Format - diffify

• {openxlsx2} 1.4: Read, Write and Edit ‘xlsx’ Files - diffify

• {brulee} 0.3.0: High-Level Modeling Functions with ‘torch’ - diffify

• {GGally} 2.2.1: Extension to ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {gsDesign} 3.6.1: Group Sequential Design - diffify

• {rvest} 1.0.4: Easily Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• RStudio setup, projects, and shortcuts

Gist & Cookbook

• Deploying a Shiny App on Hugging Face Spaces with Docker

Shiny Apps

• Building better models with reactive application

Tutorials

• 3MW (API Calls With OAuth2.0 Authentication)

• How to run R in Visual Studio Code

• Introduction to Clinical Tables with the {gt} Package

• R Shiny Security: How to Make Your Shiny Apps Secured

• Discrimination by proxy (a real case study)

• (Un)expected results with R: the all() function

• Using CC unicode symbols in ggplot2

• Zodiac Charts

• Level Up Your Data Wrangling: Adding Index Columns in R like a Pro!

• Conquering R’s Apply Family: Your Guide to apply(), lapply(), sapply(), and tapply()

• Mastering Date Sequences in R: A Comprehensive Guide

• How to Get First or Last Day of Month in R with lubridate and base R

• From Chaos to Clarity: Mastering Weekly Data Wrangling in R with strftime()

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• (February 20, 2024) Unraveling the term “Validation”: Join the Discussion at the R Validation Hub Community Meeting

• (February 21, 2024) Forecasting with Generalised Additive Models (GAMs) in R

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

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

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

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• 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

• Du Bois Visualization Challenge

Spending on Valentine's day candy by age for this week's #TidyTuesday

Code: https://t.co/lTksquv6sY#RStats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/rNGCwMp0Uf

— Georgios Karamanis (@geokaramanis) February 16, 2024

For 25% of surveyed men in the #UK, the point of Valentine's Day is to "get laid" according to a survey from 2015.

More than the half of women responded "show how much you care"—22 percentage points more than men!

Happy #valentinesday ❤️

Made in #rstats with #ggplot2 💙 pic.twitter.com/5xJsfisT0j

— Cédric Scherer (@CedScherer) February 14, 2024

Quotes of the Week

Spending on Valentine's day candy by age for this week's #TidyTuesday

Code: https://t.co/lTksquv6sY#RStats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/rNGCwMp0Uf

— Georgios Karamanis (@geokaramanis) February 16, 2024

For 25% of surveyed men in the #UK, the point of Valentine's Day is to "get laid" according to a survey from 2015.

More than the half of women responded "show how much you care"—22 percentage points more than men!

Happy #valentinesday ❤️

Made in #rstats with #ggplot2 💙 pic.twitter.com/5xJsfisT0j

— Cédric Scherer (@CedScherer) February 14, 2024