R Weekly 2023-W50 NHL Birth Dates, Quarto Dashboards, View

11 Dec 2023

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

Highlight

• Are Birth Dates Still Destiny for Canadian NHL Players?

• Quarto Dashboards

• Why is View() capitalized, anyway?

Insights

• Be Part of the Global R community!

• Why is View() capitalized, anyway?

• That’s a (W)RAP!

R in the Real World

• R Implementation in China’s Pharmaceutical Industry in 2023

R in Organizations

• R Validation Hub Community Meeting – December Recap

• Get a Git repo where your team can stow their throwaway data science code!

Resources

• State of the R – the New Stuff

• Hierarchical classification with Tabnet and C-HMCNN

• Shiny for R updates: new default look, dark mode, shinylive updates, and more

• Posit Cheatsheets: Now in HTML!

• 5 new books added to Big Book of R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {rgeoboundaries} 1.2.9: A Client to ‘geoBoundaries’, a Political Administrative Boundaries Dataset

• {blackmarbler} 0.1.0: Black Marble Data and Statistics

• {FjordLight} 0.7.0: Available Light Within the Water Column and Seafloor of Arctic Fjords

• {nexus} 0.1.0: Sourcing Archaeological Materials by Chemical Composition

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {tabnet} 0.5.0: Fit ‘TabNet’ Models for Classification and Regression - diffify

• {nanonext} 0.11.0: NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen) Lightweight Messaging Library - diffify

• {mirai} 0.11.3: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R - diffify

• {mirai.promises} 0.4.1: Make ‘Mirai’ ‘Promises’ - diffify

• {ichimoku} 1.4.11: Visualization and Tools for Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Strategies - diffify

• {DT} 0.31: A Wrapper of the JavaScript Library ‘DataTables’ - diffify

• {mizer} 2.5.0: Dynamic Multi-Species Size Spectrum Modelling - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Quarto Dashboards

• Databricks x Posit - Improved Productivity for your Data Teams

• Create custom Callout Blocks in Quarto

Gist & Cookbook

• Get Back for R

Tutorials

• Are Birth Dates Still Destiny for Canadian NHL Players?

• Chi-square distribution and test in R

• What is the probability that two persons have the same initials?

• Analysing Shiny App start-up Times with Google Lighthouse

• {checkhelper} is on CRAN: so you don’t have to be afraid to run a check

• The two phases of commits in a Git branch

• How Does a Compound Symmetric Correlation Structure Translate to a Markov Model?

• Dorling Cartograms

• A Comparison of Several qeML Predictive Methods

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

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

Life Expectancy for this week's #TidyTuesday challenge.

R code: https://t.co/OlGgPysrS2

source: @OurWorldInData#rstats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/2s9QE2cGFv

— Nikolaos Pechlivanis (@npechl) December 7, 2023

The prompt "R syntax to plot a christmas tree decorated with tinsel and baubles, with the R symbol on the top, using ggplot"

The plot...#ChatGPT #AIfail #rstats #art #Christmas pic.twitter.com/xGAwNtWGQz

— Luke Pilling (@lcpilling) December 4, 2023

Quotes of the Week

Which model do I need for which outcome? An overview of R packages: https://t.co/nqVYsT7RX5
Comments, additions, corrections, ... appreciated #rstats

— Daniel 🤎🤍❤️ (@strengejacke) December 8, 2023

What stresses me out isn’t the same thing that stressed my parents out.

True story. 🧵 #DataScience #Rstats pic.twitter.com/KRXDSaDCAg

— Matt Dancho (Business Science) (@mdancho84) December 7, 2023