R Weekly 2023-W29 R4DS, R vs APL, Data Science with Nix

17 Jul 2023

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

Editor’s Note: This issue also contains resources from the previous week (2023-W28). Enjoy this supersized collection!

Highlight

• R for Data Science, 2nd edition

• Array Languages: R vs APL

• Reproducible data science with Nix

Insights

• Hugging Face Integrations

• Reproducible data science with Nix

• Array Languages: R vs APL

R in the Real World

• Changing the world with Data: An outreach event

R in Organizations

• R Consortium Funded Project Extendr Provides Rust Extensions for R

• Change in R Consortium Leadership – Thank you, Joseph Rickert!

• R Validation Hub Community Meeting – June Recap

R in Academia

• Ordering constraints in brms using contrast coding

• Weighted probability vs. favourability

• Tree models for assessing covariate-dependent method agreement

• Testing functional specification in linear regression

Resources

• R for Data Science, 2nd edition

• Demystifying Item Response Theory (4/4): Rating Scale Models and Ordered Logit Distributions

• CheatSheet for coding in R, Python and Julia

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {refugees} 2022.12.0: Data on forcibly displaced and stateless people collated by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

• {babelwhale} 1.2.0: Talking to ‘Docker’ and ‘Singularity’ Containers

• {literanger} 0.0.2: Random Forests for Multiple Imputation Based on ‘ranger’

• {snowquery} 0.0.1: Query ‘Snowflake’ Databases with ‘SQL’

• {shinyRatings} 0.1.0: An Intuitive Way of Providing Star Rating in a ‘shiny’ App

• {QuantBondCurves} 0.1.0: Calculates Bond Values and Interest Rate Curves for Finance

• {oaii} 0.1.8: ‘OpenAI’ API R Interface

• {easyclimate} 0.2.1: Easy Access to High-Resolution Daily Climate Data for Europe

• {rbcc} 0.1.0: Risk-Based Control Charts

• {midfieldr} 1.0.1: Tools and Methods for Working with MIDFIELD Data in ‘R’

• {cryptography} 1.0.0: Encrypts and Decrypts Text Ciphers

• {NMA} 1.1-1: Network Meta-Analysis Package for R

• {duckplyr} 0.1.0: Alternative Implementations of the Grammar of Data Manipulations

• {lareshiny} 0.0.3: Lares ‘shiny’ Modules

• {tok} 0.1.0: Fast Text Tokenization

• {suntools} 1.0.0: Calculate Sun Position, Sunrise, Sunset, Solar Noon and Twilight

• {feltr} 0.0.2: Access the Felt API

• {bayespm} 0.1.0: Bayesian Statistical Process Monitoring

• {conrad} 1.0.0: Client for the Microsoft’s ‘Cognitive Services Text to Speech REST’ API

• {minioclient} 0.0.2: Interface to the ‘MinIO’ Client

GitHub or Bitbucket

• datasetR – R package for creating datasets

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• renv 1.0.0

• {nanonext} 0.9.1: NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen) Lightweight Messaging Library - adds TLS support for TCP and WebSocket connections - diffify

• Rhino 1.4.0: Streamlined Dependency Management and React Support

• parallelly: Querying, Killing and Cloning Parallel Workers Running Locally or Remotely

• RcppSpdlog 0.0.14 on CRAN: Upstream Update

• digest 0.6.33 on CRAN: Bugfix

• Rcpp 1.0.11 on CRAN: Updates and Maintenance

• RcppAnnoy 0.0.21 on CRAN: Upstream Update

• {plainview} 0.2.1: Plot Raster Images Interactively on a Plain HTML Canvas - diffify

• {metathis} 1.1.4: HTML Metadata Tags for ‘R Markdown’ and ‘Shiny’ - diffify

• {rmzqc} 0.5.1: Creation, Reading and Validation of ‘mzqc’ Files - diffify

• {piggyback} 0.1.5: Managing Larger Data on a GitHub Repository - diffify

• {meteor} 0.4-4: Meteorological Data Manipulation - diffify

• {swipeR} 1.0.0: Carousels using the ‘JavaScript’ Library ‘Swiper’ - diffify

• {stevedore} 0.9.6: Docker Client - diffify

• {BrailleR} 1.0.2: Improved Access for Blind Users - diffify

• {r2rtf} 1.1.0: Easily Create Production-Ready Rich Text Format (RTF) Table and Figure - diffify

• {cthist} 2.1.0: Clinical Trial Registry History - diffify

• {rstudioapi} 0.15.0: Safely Access the RStudio API - diffify

• {retrosheet} 1.1.5: Import Professional Baseball Data from ‘Retrosheet’ - diffify

• {move} 4.2.4: Visualizing and Analyzing Animal Track Data - diffify

• {ggDoE} 0.7.9: Modern Graphs for Design of Experiments with ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• What tokens are used more vs. less in #TidyTuesday place names?

• TidyX Episode 151: Shiny Model Builder - Tree Based Models

• Building a Chatbot with OpenAI, Shiny, & R - Part 1: Use GPT-4 with OpenAI API in R

• Building a Chatbot with OpenAI, Shiny, & R - Part 2: Shiny App Build

• Building a Chatbot with OpenAI, Shiny, & R - Part 3: Deploying our GPT Chatbot

Shiny Apps

• Introducing shiny.molstar for Large Molecular Structures Visualization in R

• Advancing FDA Clinical Trial Submissions with R: Reproducing the R Submissions Pilot 2 Shiny App Using Rhino

Tutorials

• Road trip analysis! How to use and play with Google Location History in R: Learn how to use R to load and clean and play with all the location history data Google keeps about you and look at some neat plots and tables about our 5,000-mile summer road trip along the way

• Using webR in an Express JS REST API

• Font stacks and Markdown improvements in {gt} 0.9.0

• Correlation in R: Coefficients, Visualizations, & Matrix Analysis

• ggplot Center Title: A Guide to Perfectly Aligned Titles in Your Plots

• #40: Another r2u Example – Making Colab Easier

• Uncovering History with R - A Look at the HistData Package

• Covariance in R with the cov() Function

• A Closer Look at the R Function identical()

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

• posit::conf(2023) (formerly rstudio::conf) - September 17-20, 2023

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Call for Participation

• Open Call for rOpenSci Champions Program Applications!

Quotes of the Week

Juries still out on probability theory, but nephew and I totally on the same page about #rstats

(h/t to @rstatsai and @_RachaelDempsey at @posit_pbc for the attire) https://t.co/zecbiYAu1R pic.twitter.com/TogJ8a6wlz

— Emily Riederer (@EmilyRiederer) July 16, 2023

Every year @chendaniely is still working on his slides right before going on stage. #rstats #rstatsnyc pic.twitter.com/YlFogJrx2J

— Jared Lander (@jaredlander) July 13, 2023