R Weekly 2022-W38 Variable labels, packaging plumber, web scraping

19 Sep 2022

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

Highlight

• The case for variable labels in R

• {mariobox} 0.0.0.9000: A framework for packaging {plumber} APIs

• APIs and web scraping

Insights

• The case for variable labels in R

R in the Real World

• Multi-environment split-plot experiments

• Pledging My Time V: Analysing race results in R

R in Organizations

• Update Your Machine Learning Pipeline With vetiver and Quarto

• Automate a Twitter bot with the rtweet package and RStudio Connect

• EFS vs. NFS for RStudio on Kubernetes (AWS): Configuration and considerations

• How to Participate with rOpenSci

R in Academia

• 10 simple rules for teaching R for Data Science

Resources

• APIs and web scraping

• Quarto - Metropolis theme

• A Review of Games Written in R on CRAN

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {bundle} 0.1.0: Serialize model objects with a consistent interface

• {blscrapeR} 3.2.2: An API Wrapper for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

• {tidyrgee} 0.1.0: ‘tidyverse’ Methods for ‘Earth Engine’

• {yahoofinancer} 0.1.0: Fetch Data from Yahoo Finance API

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {severance} 0.0.0.9000: The severance package contains color palettes inspired by the show Severance

• {mariobox} 0.0.0.9000: A framework for packaging {plumber} APIs

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {mirai} 0.6.0: Minimalist async evaluation framework for R - diffify

• {ggtext} 0.1.2: Improved Text Rendering Support for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {gridtext} 0.1.5: Improved Text Rendering Support for ‘Grid’ Graphics - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Avoid code duplication with Shiny modules

• RStudio Sports Analytics Meetup: NFL Big Data Bowl 2022 Winners discuss the Math behind the Path

Gist & Cookbook

• R Markdown Lesser-Known Tips & Tricks #4: Looks Better, Works Better

Tutorials

• Generative Art Twitter Bot with R and GitHub Actions

• API as a package

• How to make Venn Diagram with ggplot2

• R Shiny & FontAwesome Icons – How to Use Them in Your Dashboards

• Reading Zarr files with R package stars

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Update from the R Contribution Working Group September meeting:

We discussed ideas to work on in 2022/2023. Initially we will be working on:

• A translation hackathon in partnership with https://latin-r.com/, focusing on Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Register for LatinR for free to join in, or join the channel on the LatinR Slack to help organize.
• Monthly “Office Hours” for people new to contributing to drop in for help getting started or to discuss contributions in progress.
• A retrospective of the Bug BBQ
• A code of conduct for standalone RCWG events See the minutes for more detail.

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

• September 21: R-Ladies NYC Lightning Talks - RSVP and Call for Speakers

• October 6-7: Shiny in Production conference from Jumping Rivers

• November 23-25: I Congreso & XII Jornadas de Usuarios de R

Grants & Funding

• R Consortium ISC Call for Proposals - Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) grants for low-to-medium risk projects with a focused scope and likely to have a broad impact on the R Community. Deadline 2022-10-01.

Datasets

• bit.io Public Data Respository: A directory of Public Data Sources on bit.io

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Calls for Participation

• Announcing the 2022 Table Contest

rtistry

Today's shaded relief map is a skate, I mean, Antarctica.#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/C9jAQH78w0

— flotsam (@researchremora) September 17, 2022

Bigfoot or bear for this week's #TidyTuesday

code: https://t.co/pLGR8qDox7#Rstats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/q4n0HUXUGy

— Georgios Karamanis (@geokaramanis) September 16, 2022

Quotes of the Week

Today I've mostly been building a #QuartoPub slides template. Here are 5 things (+ a question) I spent a while figuring out - some might be obvious, some are a bit hacky.
Sharing in the hope of saving other #rstats users some time!

1/5: Need to move the footer? Find footer.css! pic.twitter.com/TtUWTGvarX

— Cara Thompson (@cararthompson) September 16, 2022

Only thing worse than debugging something that’s newly intolerably slow is debugging something that is newly, intermittently intolerably slow

— Kara Woo (@kara_woo) September 15, 2022