R Weekly 2024-W04 - Babledown, Six base R functions, and Making dashboard interactive

22 Jan 2024

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

Highlight

• How to Update a Translation with Babeldown

• Six not-so-basic base R functions

• 3MW (Making dashboard interactive)

Insights

• R-universe now builds MacOS ARM64 binaries for use on Apple Silicon (aka M1/M2/M3) systems

• Introducing saperlipopette, a package to practice Git!

• 2023 Posit Year in Review

• Reading and Writing Data with {arrow}

• rOpenSci 2023 Code of Conduct Transparency Report

• withr 3.0.0

• Rstats RSE January Digest

• The new function on the block with tidyAML extract_regression_residuals()
• Exploring the Enhanced Features of tidyAML’s internal_make_wflw_predictions()
• Using .drop_na in Fast Classification and Regression
• Exploring the Power of tidyAML 0.0.4: Unleashing New Features and Enhancements

• TidyDensity Powers Up with Data.table: Speedier Distributions for Your Data Exploration

• polars’ Rgonomic Patterns

• Your new R package? Write a WebR blog post for it

• Pseudo-apps in the browser with WebR and Quarto?

R in the Real World

• rsi is now on CRAN: Your one-stop shop for spatial ML data retrieval and pre-processing.

• Satellite Data with R: Unveiling Earth’s Surface Using the ICESat2R Package

• Posit x Databricks: December ’23 Webinar Recap

R in Organizations

• From Vision to Action: Pfizer’s R Adoption Odyssey – Join the Webinar on February 8, 2024

• Revolutionizing Patient Data Analysis: Boston Medical Center’s Journey with Machine Learning

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• rsi is now on CRAN!

• {rworkflows} 1.0.1: Test, Document, Containerise, and Deploy R Packages
• {yyjsonr} 0.1.16: Fast JSON Parser and Generator
• {dfmirroR} 2.0.0: Simulate a Data Frame Mirroring an Input and Produce Shareable Simulation Code
• {scientific} 2024.0: Elegant Scientific Themed Reporting for ‘Markdown’
• {r2fireworks} 0.1.0: Enhance Your ‘Rmarkdown’ and ‘shiny’ Apps with Dazzling Fireworks Celebrations
• {parcr} 0.5.0: Construct Parsers for Structured Text Files
• {baseballr} 1.6.0: Acquiring and Analyzing Baseball Data
• {oaii} 0.1.9: ‘OpenAI’ API R Interface
• {bscui} 0.1.2: Build SVG Custom User Interface
• {tidyplate} 1.0.0: Transform Microplate Data into Tidy Dataframes
• {tidyMC} 1.0.0: Monte Carlo Simulations Made Easy and Tidy Outcome
• {rsi} 0.1.1: Efficiently Retrieve and Process Satellite Imagery
• {drugdevelopR} 1.0.1: Utility-Based Optimal Phase II/III Drug Development Planning Validation

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• port4me 0.7.0: Get the Same, Personal, Free TCP Port over and over

• RcppSpdlog 0.0.16 on CRAN: New Upstream

• RDieHarder 0.2.6 on CRAN: Maintenance

• {procs} 1.0.5: Recreates Some ‘SAS®’ Procedures in ‘R’ - diffify
• {usmap} 0.7.0: US Maps Including Alaska and Hawaii - diffify
• {blavaan} 0.5-3: Bayesian Latent Variable Analysis - diffify
• {yardstick} 1.3.0: Tidy Characterizations of Model Performance - diffify
• {pathfindR} 2.3.1: Enrichment Analysis Utilizing Active Subnetworks - diffify
• {arkhe} 1.5.0: Tools for Cleaning Rectangular Data - diffify
• {crandep} 0.3.5: Network Analysis of Dependencies of CRAN Packages - diffify
• {rgho} 3.0.2: Access WHO Global Health Observatory Data from R - diffify
• {unrtf} 1.4.4: Extract Text from Rich Text Format (RTF) Documents - diffify
• {antiword} 1.3.2: Extract Text from Microsoft Word Documents - diffify
• {googletraffic} 0.1.5: Google Traffic - diffify
• {GenAI} 0.1.15: Generative Artificial Intelligence - diffify
• {asciicast} 2.3.1: Create ‘Ascii’ Screen Casts from R Scripts - diffify
• {gt} 0.10.1: Easily Create Presentation-Ready Display Tables - diffify
• {excel.link} 0.9.12: Convenient Data Exchange with Microsoft Excel - diffify
• {hexFinder} 0.8.2: Find Hex Logos for CRAN Packages - diffify
• {shiny.semantic} 0.5.0: Semantic UI Support for Shiny - diffify
• {parsermd} 0.1.3: Formal Parser and Related Tools for R Markdown Documents - diffify
• {withr} 3.0.0: Run Code ‘With’ Temporarily Modified Global State - diffify
• {fabricatr} 1.0.2: Imagine Your Data Before You Collect It - diffify
• {pkgload} 1.3.4: Simulate Package Installation and Attach - diffify
• {optparse} 1.7.4: Command Line Option Parser - diffify
• {ggquickeda} 0.3.1: Quickly Explore Your Data Using ‘ggplot2’ and ‘table1’ Summary Tables - diffify

Call for Participation

• Speak at posit::conf(2024)!

• Call for Speakers: ShinyConf 2024 by Appsilon

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Changes in #TidyTuesday US polling places

• R-Ladies Rome (English) - Introduction to Reproducible Publications with Quarto

R Internationally

• Join “Fake it Until You Make it: How and Why to Simulate Data” – First Glasgow User Group Event of the Year

• Rebooting the Warsaw R Community in 2024: Insights from Kamil Sijko’s Journey and Future Aspirations

• Announcing shiny.semantic 0.5.0: Enhanced Features for Your Shiny Applications

Tutorials

• How to Update a Translation with Babeldown

• Six not-so-basic base R functions

• Creating automatically dozens of calendar notifications (with R)

• Variance in R: How to Find & Calculate

• Change R Version in RStudio: A Quick How-To

• DIY API with Make and {plumber}

• 3MW (Making dashboard interactive)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

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

• ShinyConf 2024 (April 17-19)

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

Population density of Switzerland revisited. Worth doing this for other countries? Or am I all tapped out? Feels like I am. Maybe it's the cold dulling my mind and mood. Maybe I've hit my limits. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/pV4KUQEWG0

— tterence on bsky (@researchremora) January 19, 2024

The making of last week's #TidyTuesday plots - recorded using {camcorder} in #RStats! 📹📹 https://t.co/KSTNWFpzt7 pic.twitter.com/eOnle8qxfl

— Nicola Rennie | @[email protected] (@nrennie35) January 17, 2024

Quotes of the Week

✨ Sneak Peek Alert ✨ The next version of the {quarto-webr} extension ushers in a revamp of non-interactive areas to improve on-device data science tasks! 📊https://t.co/5083JqdUu0#quarto #webr #rstats pic.twitter.com/1WknBtw2u5

— James Balamuta (@axiomsofxyz) January 18, 2024