R Weekly 2023-W22 Curried functions, {fusen}, women parliamentarians

29 May 2023

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

Highlight

• Curried functions in R - Examples with purrr and ggplot2

• {fusen}: Simplifying Writing Packages for R Users

• Showing women proportion of Parliamentarians on a map

Insights

• {fusen}: Simplifying Writing Packages for R Users

• R Consortium-Funded R Package “matter” Helps Solve Larger-Than-Memory Issues

• April 2023: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• (Not) interrupting background tasks with Ctrl+C

R in the Real World

• Showing women proportion of Parliamentarians on a map

• Covid-19 vaccination rates in the Pacific

R in Organizations

• 5 Ways R Programming and R Shiny Can Improve Your Business Workflows

R in Academia

• David Kane’s free 6 week data science bootcamp (Target audience is high school students, but all ages are welcome.)

• Using ChatGPT for Creating Multiple- and Single-Choice R/exams Questions

Resources

• Demystifying Item Response Theory (2/4): IRT as Generalized Linear Models

• Edmonton R User Group Meetup: Futureverse - A Unifying Parallelization Framework in R for Everyone

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {agena.ai} 1.0.0: R Wrapper for ‘agena.ai’ API

• {cascadeSelect} 1.0.0: A Cascade Select Input for ‘Shiny’

• {kanjistat} 0.9.1: A Statistical Framework for the Analysis of Japanese Kanji Characters

• {boxplotcluster} 0.1: Clustering Method Based on Boxplot Statistics

• {ggautomap} 0.3.2: Create Maps from a Column of Place Names

• {crossvalidationCP} 1.1: Cross-Validation for Change-Point Regression

• {sqlHelpers} 0.1.0: Collection of ‘SQL’ Utilities for ‘T-SQL’ and ‘Postgresql’

• {covidnor} 2023.05.18: Public COVID-19 Data for Norway

• {washi} 0.1.0: Washington Soil Health Initiative Branding

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {nosh} 0.1.0: Opinionated Notion API Access

• {chattr} 0.0.0.9002: Integrates LLM’s with the RStudio IDE

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {gifski} 1.12.0: Highest Quality GIF Encoder - diffify

• {areaplot} 2.0.0: Plot Stacked Areas and Confidence Bands as Filled Polygons - diffify

• {transport} 0.14-1: Computation of Optimal Transport Plans and Wasserstein Distances - diffify

• {igraph} 1.4.3: Network Analysis and Visualization - diffify

• {ggdag} 0.2.9: Analyze and Create Elegant Directed Acyclic Graphs - diffify

• {targets} 1.1.3: Dynamic Function-Oriented ‘Make’-Like Declarative Pipelines - diffify

• {sf} 1.0-13: Simple Features for R - diffify

• {gginnards} 0.1.2: Explore the Innards of ‘ggplot2’ Objects - diffify

• {learnr} 0.11.4: Interactive Tutorials for R - diffify

• {knitr} 1.43: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R - diffify

• {tidyBdE} 0.3.3: Download Data from Bank of Spain - diffify

• {h2o} 3.40.0.4: R Interface for the ‘H2O’ Scalable Machine Learning Platform - diffify

• {ggblanket} 2.0.0: Simplify ‘ggplot2’ Visualisation - diffify

• {cartogram} 0.3.0: Create Cartograms with R - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• HTML and CSS for R Users with Albert Rapp

• How to Make a Custom R Package

• Use xgboost and effect encodings to model tornadoes

• Can You Download Handler This? - TidyX Episode 146

Gist & Cookbook

• TidyTuesday - Tornados (1950-2022)

Tutorials

• Mastering File Manipulation with R’s list.files() Function

• Porter-Duff Compositing Operators in R Graphics

• What is the sink() function? Capturing Output to External Files

• Curried functions in R - Examples with purrr and ggplot2

• The terra package for raster and vector data

• Which Plot Was That? Plotly subplots and customdata

• purrr::walk() this way

• Using the US Census Geocoder in R

R Internationally

• 都道府県版ジェンダー・ギャップ指数(2023年版)

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

• R Medicine 2023 - June 5-9th, 2023

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

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

• Building reproducible analytical pipelines in R workshop - June 29th, 18:00-20:00 CEST

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Quotes of the Week

Found this really nice timeline about the history of #rstats.

It is very interesting how #bioconductor is created just one year after the stable version of R.

And RStudio first release happens only in 2011, 4 years after Hadley's ggplot2!

Source: https://t.co/RYoVg3g4Jc pic.twitter.com/u92khLVDEJ

— Flávia E. Rius (@flaviaerius) May 23, 2023

Things that absolutely revolutionised R in the last 10 years:

- RStudio
- %>%
- tidyverse
- Rmd
- Stan

What am I missing?

— Dr Kristian Brock (@CatchTwentyToo) May 23, 2023

Anyone have thoughts about the best way to export a csv file from R in a way that retains leading zeros for a character column? #rstats

— Crystal Lewis (@Cghlewis) May 23, 2023