R Weekly 2023-W36 Vectors, Functions, and RConsortium Grant

04 Sep 2023

• How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly?

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

Highlight

• Three (four?) R functions I enjoyed this week

• Pre-allocating vectors is for nerds

• Grants For R Language Infrastructure Projects Available Now!

Insights

• Pre-allocating vectors is for nerds

• 10 years of rio

• Now You’re Thinking with Arrays

• Geographic data analysis in R and Python: comparing code and outputs for vector data

• Three (four?) R functions I enjoyed this week

R in the Real World

• Conscious uncoupling with {blogdown}

R in Organizations

• The many reasons that pharmas love {gt}

R in Academia

• An insight into teaching R programming in Botswana

• Why your research deserves to be an R package

Resources

• 6 New books added to Big Book of R (Oscar Baruffa)

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• RcppArmadillo 0.12.6.3.0 on CRAN: New Upstream Bugfix

GitHub or Bitbucket

• An R package with Baltagi’s ‘Econometric Analysis of Panel Data’ datasets

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Keeping data up-to-date with 6 pins workflows

Tutorials

• Land to water surface ratios in U.S. states

• TidyTuesday week 35 - Fair use case courts in the U.S.

• Shiny for R updates: tooltips, popovers, a new theme, and more

• Land to water surface ratios in U.S. states

• TidyTuesday week 35 - Fair use case courts in the U.S.

• The many reasons that pharmas love {gt}

• Introducing Project Templates in Posit Cloud

• Mapping South America with R: A Deep Dive into Geo-Visualization

• Exploring Relationships with Correlation Heatmaps in R

• Four Filters for Functional (Programming) Friends

• How to: one-way ANOVA by hand

• Visualizing Categorical Data in R: A Guide with Engaging Charts Using the Iris Dataset

• Modifying output format from within R Markdown chunk by rmarkdown::output_format_dependency

• Little useless-useful R functions – Return matrix elements in spiral order

• Creating Eye-Catching Data Visualizations with Lollipop Charts in R using ggplot2

• Kernel Density Plots in R

• R functions that shorten/filter stuff: less is more

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

Grants & Funding

• Grants For R Language Infrastructure Projects Available Now!

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼