R Weekly 2023-W06 Map learnings, old R, dplyr joins

06 Feb 2023

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

Highlight

• Postmortem of my #30DayMapChallenge 2022

• The oldest R version one can still run today

• dplyr 1.1.0: Joins

Insights

• Postmortem of my #30DayMapChallenge 2022

• Quarto for the Python user

• The oldest R version one can still run today

• #39: Faster Feedback Systems – A Continuous Integration Example

• Tips for organising your R code

• December 2022: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

R in the Real World

• How To Map Any Region of the world using {rnaturalearth} and {sf}

• Snow in Montréal (Canada)

R in Organizations

• Improved permanent URL schema for r-universe.dev

R in Academia

• Biostatistical Modeling Plan

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {happign} 0.1.8: Easy access to all French geodata from IGN (National Institute of Geographic)

• {RcppArray} 0.2.0: ‘Rcpp’ Meets ‘C++’ Arrays

• {roads} 1.1.0: Road Network Projection

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {RInside} 0.2.18: C++ Classes to Embed R in C++ (and C) Applications - diffify

• {visdat} 0.6.0: Preliminary Visualisation of Data - diffify

• {tidybayes} 3.0.3: Tidy Data and ‘Geoms’ for Bayesian Models - diffify

• {shapviz} 0.5.0: SHAP Visualizations - diffify

• {kernlab} 0.9-32: Kernel-Based Machine Learning Lab - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• idyX Episode 134: Conditional Styling with DT

Tutorials

• Dynamite for Causal Inference from Panel Data using Dynamic Multivariate Panel Models

• Diverging Lollipop Chart: A Visual Tool for Comparing Data with {healthyR}

• How to Use Attributes in R Functions

• dplyr 1.1.0: The power of vctrs

• dplyr 1.1.0: Per-operation grouping

• dplyr 1.1.0: Joins

• forcats 1.0.0

• Visdat Version 0.6.0

• Continuity Corrections: Imperfect Responses to Slight Problems

• SHAP + XGBoost + Tidymodels = LOVE

• Explanatory Analysis of the XGBoost Model for Budget Deficits of U.S.

• Probot: building a Mastodon bot

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

• Feb 23: Making Beautiful And Effective Maps In R

• March 15-17: ShinyConf 2023

• SatRdays London 2023

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Quotes of the Week

Collaborating with others be like#rstats pic.twitter.com/q6GY2m8w7b

— Mattan S. Ben-Shachar (@mattansb) February 3, 2023

heck yes {kableExtra} makes fantastic tables #rstats

(documentation and examples here: https://t.co/VflhAyReXJ) pic.twitter.com/9Qd9vawGSL

— Andrew Heiss (🐘 @[email protected]) (@andrewheiss) February 1, 2023