R Weekly 2023-W37 Preloading Packages, Annotating Equations, UFO Sightings

11 Sep 2023

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This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• Preloading your R packages in webR in an Express JS API

• A guide to annotating equations in quarto documents

• Using Stan to analyse global UFO sighting reports

Insights

• R Project Sprint.

• Using Stan to analyse global UFO sighting reports

• Little useless-useful R functions – Continuous, nowhere differentiable Weierstrass function

• Adventures with parquet II: Implementing the parquetArraySeed S4 class

• The Upcoming knitr v1.44: More Compatible with Quarto, and Locking opts_current

• Evaluate multiple modeling approaches for #TidyTuesday spam email

• R Validation Hub’s Risk Metric Application and Risk Score – Mini Series Part 1

• R Validation Hub’s {riskassessment} Application – Mini Series Part 2

• Is this still Weather or is it already Climate? Decoding Chaos!

• Build serverless shiny application via Github page

• Good or bad? Sentiment Analysis in R

• Mapping the Past - Geospatial Visualization in R

• Creating Population Pyramid Plots in R with ggplot2

• Mastering Data Visualization in R: How to Plot a Subset of Data

• Exploring Multivariate Data with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Biplot in R

• When to use Jitter

R in the Real World

• Meta-analytics for soccer

• Analyzing Height Trends in the NBA

R in Organizations

• Wrapping the Mixpanel API: How to create a package with {fusen} to enhance Product Analytics

R Users

• Spatial Data Science Using R in Berlin, Germany

Resources

• Pearson, Spearman and Kendall correlation coefficients by hand

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• RcppInt64 0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package!

• {jmastats} 0.2.0: Download Weather Data from Japan Meteorological Agency Website
• {dacc} 0.0-1: Detection and Attribution Analysis of Climate Change
• {zlib} 1.0.1: Compression and Decompression
• {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
• {ShapeChange} 1.5: Change-Point Estimation using Shape-Restricted Splines
• {wikiprofiler} 0.1.2: ‘WikiPathway’ Based Data Integration and Visualization
• {censobr} 0.1.0: Download Data from Brazil’s Population Census
• {mmcards} 0.1.1: Playing Cards Utility Functions
• {prettyglm} 1.0.1: Pretty Summaries of Generalized Linear Model Coefficients
• {harmonydata} 0.1.0: R Library for ‘Harmony’
• {editbl} 0.9.5: ‘DT’ Extension for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) Applications in ‘shiny’
• {RcppInt64} 0.0.1: ‘Rcpp’-Based Helper Functions to Pass ‘Int64’ Values Between ‘R’ and ‘C++’
• {pharmaversesdtm} 0.1.1: Test Data for the Pharmaverse Family of Packages
• {r2country} 2.0.2.3.0: Country Data with Names, Capitals, Currencies, Populations, Time, Languages and so on
• {procs} 1.0.3: Recreates Some ‘SAS®’ Procedures in ‘R’
• {misha} 4.2.3: Toolkit for Analysis of Genomic Data
• {juicedown} 0.1.1: ‘juice’ + ‘markdown’: Convert ‘R Markdown’ into ‘HTML’ with Inline Styles
• {grattan} 2023.1.1: Australian Tax Policy Analysis

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {nanonext} 0.10.0: R binding for NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen), a successor to ZeroMQ.

• tidypolars: Provide the functionalities of Polars with the syntax of the tidyverse

• x13binary 1.1.57-4 on CRAN: Minor Update

• pak 0.6.0

• RcppFarmHash 0.0.3 on CRAN: Small Update

• {rgbif} 3.7.8: Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API - diffify
• {colorhex} 0.1.4: Colors and Palettes from Color-Hex - diffify
• {admiraldev} 0.5.0: Utility Functions and Development Tools for the Admiral Package Family - diffify
• {GPFDA} 3.1.3: Gaussian Process for Functional Data Analysis - diffify
• {checkdown} 0.0.9: Check-Fields and Check-Boxes for ‘rmarkdown’ - diffify
• {duckplyr} 0.2.0: A ‘DuckDB’-Backed Version of ‘dplyr’ - diffify
• {insight} 0.19.4: Easy Access to Model Information for Various Model Objects - diffify
• {readODS} 2.1.0: Read and Write ODS Files - diffify
• {admiral.test} 0.7.0: Test Data for the ‘admiral’ Package - diffify
• {RcppArmadillo} 0.12.6.4.0: ‘Rcpp’ Integration for the ‘Armadillo’ Templated Linear Algebra Library - diffify
• {fmtr} 1.6.0: Easily Apply Formats to Data - diffify
• {memery} 0.5.7: Internet Memes for Data Analysts - diffify
• {lcars} 0.3.8: LCARS Aesthetic for Shiny - diffify
• {imgpalr} 0.3.2: Create Color Palettes from Images - diffify
• {epubr} 0.6.4: Read EPUB File Metadata and Text - diffify
• {fetch} 0.1.3: Fetch Data from Various Data Sources - diffify
• {foreign} 0.8-85: Read Data Stored by ‘Minitab’, ‘S’, ‘SAS’, ‘SPSS’, ‘Stata’, ‘Systat’, ‘Weka’, ‘dBase’, … - diffify
• {RcppFarmHash} 0.0.3: Interface to the Google ‘FarmHash’ Family of Hash Functions - diffify
• {spatstat.random} 3.1-6: Random Generation Functionality for the ‘spatstat’ Family - diffify
• {pins} 1.2.2: Pin, Discover and Share Resources - diffify
• {ompr} 1.0.4: Model and Solve Mixed Integer Linear Programs - diffify
• {bundle} 0.1.1: Serialize Model Objects with a Consistent Interface - diffify
• {ipkg} 1.0.8: Install R Packages or Download File from GitHub via the Proxy Site Https://Ghproxy.com - diffify
• {rsgeo} 0.1.6: An Interface to Rust’s ‘geo’ Library - diffify
• {politeness} 0.9.2: Detecting Politeness Features in Text - diffify
• {rstan} 2.26.23: R Interface to Stan - diffify
• {askgpt} 0.1.3: Asking GPT About R Stuff - diffify
• {packcircles} 0.3.6: Circle Packing - diffify
• {sasLM} 0.9.12: ‘SAS’ Linear Model - diffify
• {flextable} 0.9.3: Functions for Tabular Reporting - diffify
• {lidR} 4.0.4: Airborne LiDAR Data Manipulation and Visualization for Forestry Applications - diffify
• {obfuscatoR} 0.2.2: Obfuscation Game Designs - diffify
• {x13binary} 1.1.57-4: Provide the ‘x13ashtml’ Seasonal Adjustment Binary - diffify
• {thunder} 1.1.2: Computation and Visualisation of Atmospheric Convective Parameters - diffify
• {stranslate} 0.1.1: Simple Translation Between Different Languages - diffify
• {StanHeaders} 2.26.28: C++ Header Files for Stan - diffify
• {riskRegression} 2023.09.08: Risk Regression Models and Prediction Scores for Survival Analysis with Competing Risks - diffify
• {DatabaseConnector} 6.2.4: Connecting to Various Database Platforms - diffify
• {cancerGI} 1.0.1: Analyses of Cancer Gene Interaction - diffify
• {sassy} 1.2.0: Makes ‘R’ Easier for Everyone - diffify
• {duckdbfs} 0.0.2: High Performance Remote File System Access Using ‘duckdb’ - diffify
• {eyelinkReader} 1.0.1: Import Gaze Data for EyeLink Eye Tracker - diffify
• {credentials} 2.0.1: Tools for Managing SSH and Git Credentials - diffify
• {tastypie} 0.1.1: Easy Pie Charts - diffify
• {geojsonio} 0.11.3: Convert Data from and to ‘GeoJSON’ or ‘TopoJSON’ - diffify
• {RcppNumerical} 0.6-0: ‘Rcpp’ Integration for Numerical Computing Libraries - diffify
• {paws.common} 0.6.0: Paws Low-Level Amazon Web Services API - diffify
• {rhino} 1.5.0: A Framework for Enterprise Shiny Applications - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

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Tutorials

• Preloading your R packages in webR in an Express JS API

• Risk-neutralize simulations

R Adjacent

• A guide to annotating equations in quarto documents

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

• Shiny in Production: Full speaker lineup

• Deep Learning with torch in R workshop

Jobs

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