R Weekly 2023-W24 R idioms, bslib, donut plots

11 Jun 2023

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

Highlight

• Three useful (to me) R patterns

• Towards easy, delightful, and customizable dashboards in Shiny for R with {bslib}

• Easily create sector (pie, donut) and series of circle charts using Cartesian coordinates and ggplot2 with the new #RStats icon {ggtricks}

Insights

• Developing and Debugging Code with browser()

• Upcoming changes to popular R packages for spatial data: what you need to do

• Reflecting on Macros

• Quarto at Work: Streamline Reports and Share Insights

• Tidyteam code review principles

• Package spring cleaning

R in the Real World

• Towards easy, delightful, and customizable dashboards in Shiny for R with {bslib}

• Cricketr analyzes Ind-Aus faceoff in WTC 2023!!

• Update to Data Science Software Popularity

R in Organizations

• Using R in Production with Posit Connect: Deploying Models as APIs for Customer-Facing Applications

• Bridging Ecology, Statistics, and Data Science with R for Biodiversity and Climate Change Research

• JAGS Simulation with Multivariate State-Space Model: The G7 on Food Security

Resources

• Causal Inference in R Blog

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {halfmoon} 0.1.0: Techniques to Build Better Balance (causal inference)

• {cereal} 0.1.0: Serialize ‘vctrs’ Objects to ‘JSON’

• {texor} 1.0.1: Converting ‘LaTeX’ ‘R Journal’ Articles into ‘RJ-web-articles’

• {glmnetr} 0.2-1: Nested Cross Validation for the Relaxed Lasso and Other Machine Learning Models

• {gptzeror} 0.0.1: Identify Text Written by Large Language Models using ‘GPTZero’

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {pyblack} 0.1.0: RStudio addin to style Python code blocks with black

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {vetiver} 0.2.1: Version, Share, Deploy, and Monitor Models - diffify

• {reticulate} 1.29: Interface to ‘Python’ - diffify

• {torch} 0.11.0: Tensors and Neural Networks with ‘GPU’ Acceleration - diffify

• {survstan} 0.0.2: Fitting Survival Regression Models via ‘Stan’ - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• SLC-RUG June 2023 - Seven essential Excel data visualization tips (in R!)

Gist & Cookbook

• Creating split polygon art

Tutorials

• Three useful (to me) R patterns

• Sharing the C++ Code of an Rcpp Package

• Troubleshooting Pandoc Problems as an R User

• Python, R and Reticulate: Fixing Unknown Crashes

• How to Randomly Select Rows in R – Sample from Dataframe

• Fullscreen Ahead for Shiny Applications

• Easily create sector (pie, donut) and series of circle charts using Cartesian coordinates and ggplot2 with the new #RStats icon {ggtricks}

• Mastering file download in shiny

• “%in%” operator in R: comparing dates and strings

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

• Access and Analyze the New 2020 Decennial Census Data - June 15, 2023

• Mapping and Spatial Analysis with the 2020 Decennial Census - June 22, 2023

• Building reproducible analytical pipelines in R workshop - June 29, 2023

• ‘Advanced Shiny Development’ the hands-on workshop - June 21, 2023

• New York R Conference - July 13-14, 2023

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

Streets of New York City in current wildfire colors. #rstats pic.twitter.com/J4h51GExZP

— Ansgar Wolsing | @[email protected] (@_ansgar) June 8, 2023

More generative art in #RStats 🎨#GenArtClub #Rtistry #GenerativeArt pic.twitter.com/YxbOeAd5Sm

— Nicola Rennie | @[email protected] (@nrennie35) June 11, 2023

Share of electricity generation in Europe for this week's #TidyTuesday

code: https://t.co/me634LCOfU#RStats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/Bt7cRkEque

— Georgios Karamanis (@geokaramanis) June 11, 2023

Quotes of the Week

Sometimes people ask me if I can do one-on-one R tutoring.

Sure I can. But then my hourly rate applies. And there are many amazing *free* resources. Want to try them first?

Here are a few that I recommend. #rstats

— Albert Rapp (@rappa753) June 7, 2023

Just watched an insightful talk on "7 essential Excel data visualization tips (in R!)" by @ivelasq3. Inspired by the learnings, I created my own graph using ggpattern.
Code: https://t.co/IQpjRm4kEp#RStats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/3x3E5KQNFI

— Deepali Kank (@DeepaliKank) June 10, 2023