R Weekly 2023-W38 rio 1.0.0, Yihui's interview, Open Source in Pharma

18 Sep 2023

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

Highlight

• rio 1.0.0

• An Interview of Me by JP and Sarah

• How Open Source (R and Shiny) Is Transforming Processes in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Insights

• readODS 2.1.0

• rio 1.0.0

• Merge Consecutive Blockquotes in Markdown

• Make HTML Elements Full-width Automatically via JavaScript and CSS

• State of Shiny 2023 – Download Report

• An introduction to Python for R Users

• Tidymodels Machine Learning: Diabetes Classification

R in the Real World

• Crossing Bridges: Reporting on NYC taxi data with RStudio and Databricks

• A Tale of Outage and Revival: Building a Static Site Generator in R

• posit::conf(2023)

• Utilizing R for Reproducible Open Science Research in Tucson, Arizona

• First Publicly Available R-Based Submission Package Submitted to FDA (Pilot 3)

• An Interview of Me by JP and Sarah

• RcppInt64 0.0.2 on CRAN: Small Update

• #TidyTuesday 2023 - Week 37

• Appsilon’s Top 10 Sessions to Check Out at posit::conf 2023

• How Open Source (R and Shiny) Is Transforming Processes in the Pharmaceutical Industry

• Exploring Machine Learning-Derived Data in Life Sciences with Shiny Applications

• Meeting the Stars of the R-Universe: The R-Universe Against Diseases

R in Organizations

• Novo Nordisk’s Journey to an R based FDA Submission

Resources

• How pivot_longer() works

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {ggRtsy} 0.1.0: Add Some Van Gogh Colors and Overlay Colors on Your ‘ggplot()’
• {datasetjson} 0.0.1: Read and Write CDISC Dataset JSON Files
• {clustlearn} 1.0.0: Learn Clustering Techniques Through Examples and Code
• {xportr} 0.3.1: Utilities to Output CDISC SDTM/ADaM XPT Files
• {rsleep} 1.0.9: Analysis of Sleep Data
• {biosampleR} 1.0.4: Biodiversity Index Calculation and Bootstrap Confidence Interval Estimation
• {ura} 1.0.0: Monitoring Rater Reliability
• {tfrmtbuilder} 0.0.4: ‘shiny’ App Companion to the ‘tfrmt’ Package
• {PSDistr} 0.0.1: Distributions Derived from Normal Distribution
• {qualpalr} 0.4.4: Automatic Generation of Qualitative Color Palettes
• {mapmisc} 2.0.0: Utilities for Producing Maps
• {hwwntest} 1.3.2: Tests of White Noise using Wavelets
• {mand} 2.0: Multivariate Analysis for Neuroimaging Data
• {voiceR} 0.1.0: Voice Analytics for Social Scientists
• {RColorConesa} 1.0.0: Conesa Colors Palette
• {CohortExplorer} 0.0.17: Explorer of Profiles of Patients in a Cohort
• {checkthat} 0.1.0: Intuitive Unit Testing Tools for Data Manipulation
• {teal.code} 0.4.1: Code Storage and Execution Class for ‘teal’ Applications
• {epiCleanr} 0.1.0: A Tidy Solution for Epidemiological Data
• {censobr} 0.1.1: Download Data from Brazil’s Population Census
• {raqs} 1.0.0: Interface to the US EPA Air Quality System (AQS) API
• {teal.reporter} 0.2.1: Reporting Tools for ‘shiny’ Modules
• {teal.logger} 0.1.3: Logging Setup for the ‘teal’ Family of Packages
• {cookiecutter} 0.1.0: Generate Project Files from a Template
• {daiR} 0.9.9: Interface with Google Cloud Document AI API

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• Datardis 0.0.4

• {leafem} 0.2.3: ‘leaflet’ Extensions for ‘mapview’ - diffify
• {ctrdata} 1.15.2: Retrieve and Analyze Clinical Trials in Public Registers - diffify
• {nodbi} 0.9.7: ‘NoSQL’ Database Connector - diffify
• {kutils} 1.73: Project Management Tools - diffify
• {rcompanion} 2.4.34: Functions to Support Extension Education Program Evaluation - diffify
• {S7} 0.1.1: An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a Successor to S3 and S4 - diffify
• {duckplyr} 0.2.1: A ‘DuckDB’-Backed Version of ‘dplyr’ - diffify
• {atable} 0.1.14: Create Tables for Reporting Clinical Trials - diffify
• {gnm} 1.1-5: Generalized Nonlinear Models - diffify
• {planr} 0.1.1: Tools for Supply Chain Management, Demand and Supply Planning - diffify
• {gtExtras} 0.5.0: Extending ‘gt’ for Beautiful HTML Tables - diffify
• {bulkreadr} 0.2.0: The Ultimate Tool for Reading Data in Bulk - diffify
• {GeoAdjust} 2.0.0: Accounting for Random Displacements of True GPS Coordinates of Data - diffify
• {tablet} 0.6.3: Tabulate Descriptive Statistics in Multiple Formats - diffify
• {eyetrackingR} 0.2.1: Eye-Tracking Data Analysis - diffify
• {SiMRiv} 1.0.6: Simulating Multistate Movements in River/Heterogeneous Landscapes - diffify
• {ggfun} 0.1.3: Miscellaneous Functions for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {unicol} 0.2.0: The Colors of your University - diffify
• {rio} 1.0.0: A Swiss-Army Knife for Data I/O - diffify
• {rtrek} 0.4.0: Data Analysis Relating to Star Trek - diffify
• {YTAnalytics} 0.1.0: Wrapper for ‘YouTube Analytics’ API - diffify
• {flattabler} 2.1.0: Obtaining a Flat Table from Pivot Tables - diffify
• {rworkflows} 0.99.13: Test, Document, Containerise, and Deploy R Packages - diffify
• {memoiR} 1.2-4: R Markdown and Bookdown Templates to Publish Documents - diffify
• {admiralonco} 0.5.0: Oncology Extension Package for ADaM in ‘R’ Asset Library - diffify
• {deepRstudio} 0.0.9: Seamless Language Translation in ‘RStudio’ using ‘DeepL’ API and ‘Rstudioapi’ - diffify
• {cognitoR} 1.0.4: Authentication for ‘Shiny’ Apps with ‘Amazon Cognito’ - diffify
• {worcs} 0.1.12: Workflow for Open Reproducible Code in Science - diffify
• {KeyboardSimulator} 2.6.2: Keyboard and Mouse Input Simulation for Windows OS - diffify
• {charlatan} 0.5.1: Make Fake Data - diffify
• {this.path} 2.1.0: Get Executing Script’s Path - diffify
• {redcapAPI} 2.8.0: Interface to ‘REDCap’ - diffify
• {QuickJSR} 1.0.6: Interface for the ‘QuickJS’ Lightweight ‘JavaScript’ Engine - diffify
• {tmap} 3.3-4: Thematic Maps - diffify
• {chatAI4R} 0.2.10: Chat-Based Interactive Artificial Intelligence for R - diffify
• {statsExpressions} 1.5.2: Tidy Dataframes and Expressions with Statistical Details - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• R-Ladies STL: Project Oriented Workflows with Shannon Pileggi (Sep 11 2023)

• Generative AI for R progammers - ChatGPT, gptstudio, DALL-E, Whisper, and GitHub Copilot!

• Michael Lopez at NFL - Being forward-thinking & anticipating questions - Data Science Hangout

• Hadley Wickham at Posit - Giving benefit to people using what you build - Data Science Hangout

• admiral release 0.12.0 overview

R Internationally

• R User Group Philippines Turns 10

Tutorials

• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 5 – Reproducible literate programming with Nix and Quarto

• Fast remote parquet

• Histograms with Two or More Variables in R

• How to Create a Histogram with Different Colors in R

• How to Plot Multiple Plots on the Same Graph in R

• Exploring the Third Dimension with R: A Guide to the persp() Function

• Plotting SVM Decision Boundaries with e1071 in R

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

River basins of France. High-quality render coming soon!

Made possible by @milos_agathon; inspired by @PythonMaps.#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/gCxeUemsRm

— terence t (@researchremora) September 15, 2023

I recently read a blog post (https://t.co/sgikbBBEjS) from @infowetrust about creating maps using a typewriter, and wanted to see if {ggplot2} could do something similar.

So here's an elevation map of Scotland - using only the letters l, I, H, and M!#RStats #RSpatial #DataViz pic.twitter.com/RqzUgywn9O

— Nicola Rennie | @[email protected] (@nrennie35) September 15, 2023

Fly over a pretty mountain drive. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/pJ4dTaYJdr

— Art Steinmetz (@adababbage) September 14, 2023

Quotes of the Week