R Weekly 2023-W16 containers, extensions, revolutions

17 Apr 2023

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This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• Dev containers with R and Quarto

• Extending Data Frames

• Make “Solar System” Plots With {ggsolar}

Insights

• Do You Have to get() Objects?

• Dev containers with R and Quarto

• Gradient descent in R

• Why should I use R: The Excel R plotting comparison: Part 2

• Detecting heart murmurs from time series data in R

• Lessons Learned with shiny.benchmark: Improving the Performance of a Shiny Dashboard

• Make “Solar System” Plots With {ggsolar}

• collapse and the fastverse: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future

• Styling Tables for Excel with {styledTables}

• Extending Data Frames

• Some love for Base R. Part 4

• Test for Normality in R: Three Different Methods & Interpretation

• Building and Backtesting a Volatility-based Trading Strategy with ChatGPT

• De-noising Diffusion with torch

• {surveydown}: An open source, markdown-based survey framework (that doesn’t exist yet)

• Durbin Watson Test in R: Step-by-Step incl. Interpretation

• Progress on R-spatial evolution, Apr 2023

• WooCommerce Administrator with R

• Predicting the Real USD/TRY Rates with MARS

R in the Real World

• IPL 2023:GooglyPlusPlus now with by AI/ML models, near real-time analytics!

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {fakir} 1.0.0: Generate Fake Datasets for Prototyping and Teaching
• {bettermc} 1.2.1: Enhanced Fork-Based Parallelization
• {duke} 0.0.1: Creating a Color-Blind Friendly Duke Color Package
• {ast2ast} 0.3.1: Translates an R Function to a C++ Function
• {countSTAR} 1.0.1: Flexible Modeling of Count Data
• {roundyh} 0.1.0: Round Dataframe

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Minimalist and Elegant {shiny} apps with {skeleton}

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {happign} 0.1.9: Easy access to all French geodata from IGN (National Institute of Geographic) - diffify

• torch 0.10.0

• {IntervalSurgeon} 1.1: Operating on Integer-Bounded Intervals - diffify
• {leidenbase} 0.1.18: R and C/C++ Wrappers to Run the Leiden find_partition() Function - diffify
• {gargle} 1.4.0: Utilities for Working with Google APIs - diffify
• {textrecipes} 1.0.3: Extra ‘Recipes’ for Text Processing - diffify
• {slurmR} 0.5-3: A Lightweight Wrapper for ‘Slurm’ - diffify
• {qqconf} 1.3.2: Creates Simultaneous Testing Bands for QQ-Plots - diffify
• {formatters} 0.4.1: ASCII Formatting for Values and Tables - diffify
• {googleway} 2.7.7: Accesses Google Maps APIs to Retrieve Data and Plot Maps - diffify
• {geodata} 0.5-8: Download Geographic Data - diffify
• {rspm} 0.4.0: ‘RStudio’ Package Manager - diffify
• {partykit} 1.2-20: A Toolkit for Recursive Partytioning - diffify
• {tidystats} 0.5.2: Save Output of Statistical Tests - diffify
• {ggstatsplot} 0.11.1: ‘ggplot2’ Based Plots with Statistical Details - diffify
• {torch} 0.10.0: Tensors and Neural Networks with ‘GPU’ Acceleration - diffify
• {censored} 0.2.0: ‘parsnip’ Engines for Survival Models - diffify
• {almanac} 1.0.0: Tools for Working with Recurrence Rules - diffify
• {ggspatial} 1.1.8: Spatial Data Framework for ggplot2 - diffify
• {autonewsmd} 0.0.6: Auto-Generate Changelog using Conventional Commits - diffify
• {zoo} 1.8-12: S3 Infrastructure for Regular and Irregular Time Series (Z’s Ordered Observations) - diffify
• {git2r} 0.32.0: Provides Access to Git Repositories - diffify
• {DescribeDF} 0.1.1: Description of a Data Frame - diffify
• {octopus} 0.2.0: A Database Management Tool - diffify
• {ggstats} 0.3.0: Extension to ‘ggplot2’ for Plotting Stats - diffify
• {forstringr} 0.1.1: String Manipulation Package for Those Familiar with ‘Microsoft Excel’ - diffify
• {tune} 1.1.1: Tidy Tuning Tools - diffify
• {ggformula} 0.10.4: Formula Interface to the Grammar of Graphics - diffify
• {autoReg} 0.3.2: Automatic Linear and Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis - diffify
• {googleAuthR} 2.0.1: Authenticate and Create Google APIs - diffify
• {oskeyring} 0.1.6: Raw System Credential Store Access from R - diffify
• {rmapshaper} 0.5.0: Client for ‘mapshaper’ for ‘Geospatial’ Operations - diffify
• {daewr} 1.2-9: Design and Analysis of Experiments with R - diffify
• {colourvalues} 0.3.9: Assigns Colours to Values - diffify
• {rms} 6.6-0: Regression Modeling Strategies - diffify
• {geneHapR} 1.1.9: Gene Haplotype Statistics, Phenotype Association and Visualization - diffify
• {stoRy} 0.2.1: Download, Explore, and Analyze Literary Theme Ontology Data - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Avoid duplicate code in 150 seconds

Shiny Apps

• prenoms, An App for Exploring French Baby Names

• ChatGPT Clone with Shiny

• windy.example

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Working with Big Data with Hadoop and Spark workshop

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• Regression Modeling Strategies Course

• Regression Modeling Strategies Pre-Course

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

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Quotes of the Week

Today's Friday #rstats fun: I discovered the (experimental) `tree()` function in the lobstr package for the pretty-printing of lists. So much cleaner than `str()`! 😍🗒️ Thanks @NicholasStrayer! pic.twitter.com/tz1kOSGqvj

— James Laird-Smith (@JLS_DataScience) April 14, 2023

almanac 1.0.0 is on CRAN!

almanac is an #rstats 📦 for working with recurring events.

This huge update adds support for holidays and calendars! It includes pre-built holidays, or you can create your own.

Read all about it here:https://t.co/9VsWDPg6LLpic.twitter.com/fgXxDArQgc

— Davis Vaughan (@dvaughan32) April 14, 2023

A forest canopy height map of Australia using data from 2019. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/CuMWH5JrIS

— terence t (@researchremora) April 10, 2023