R Weekly 2024-W11 Package Marketing, Spring Clean, and NodeJS projects with webR inside

11 Mar 2024

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

Highlight

• Marketing Ideas For Your Package

• webrcli & spidyr: A starter pack for building NodeJS projects with webR inside

• Spring clean your R packages

Insights

• Spring clean your R packages

• Shiny button weirdness

• Marketing Ideas For Your Package

R in the Real World

• The Cleveland R User Group’s Journey Through Pandemic Adaptations and Baseball Analytics

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

{timeless} 0.1.0: Fast general purpose date/time converter written in Rust

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• prrd 0.0.6 at CRAN: Several Improvements

• tinythemes 0.0.2 at CRAN: Maintenance

• RcppArmadillo 0.12.8.1.0 on CRAN: Upstream Fix, Interface Polish

• {naniar} version 1.1.0 “Prince Caspian”

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Modernizing Clinical Trial Design and Analysis to Improve Efficiency & Flexibility

• WebDev4R: Using HTML & CSS with {htmltools}

Tutorials

• Modeling the Oscar for Best Picture (and Some Insights About XGBoost)

• webrcli & spidyr: A starter pack for building NodeJS projects with webR inside

• How to Subset Data Frame in R by Multiple Conditions

• How to Add New Level to Factor in R

• How to Rename Factor Levels in R

• A Beginner’s Guide to Renaming Data Frame Columns in R

• 3MW (Spacing & Sizing with CSS)

• R Plumber: How to Craft Error Responses that Speak Fluent HTTP

• Beyond Equality: Unleashing the Power of Non-Equi Joins in {dplyr}

• Exporting Excel Workbooks From Your Shiny App? Snapshot Test Them!

• How To Use Tests To Develop Shiny Modules

• R Solution for Excel Puzzles

• PowerQuery Puzzle solved with R

• Mastering the Arcane: Advanced RMarkdown for Magical Data Science

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 💼

Quotes of the Week

If your code only exists in your laptop, you have 4 big problems:

- 🔥Safety
- ✉️Sharing
- 🦕History
- 🤝Collaboration

Github solves all of them. And it's less complicated than you think.

🧵Here is a thread on how to use it right now on your project!

(6 steps) pic.twitter.com/T3zfN9CMpt

— Yan Holtz (@R_Graph_Gallery) March 8, 2024