R Weekly 2023-W15

10 Apr 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

• What are people commenting about their loaded packages?

• Introducing rtlr - an R Package for RTL Languages

• How to Modify Variables the Right Way in R

Insights

• What are people commenting about their loaded packages?

R in the Real World

• Who are Twitter Blue Users?

• {surveydown}: An open source, markdown-based survey framework

• English Premier League interactive plot

• Assault Deaths in the OECD 1960-2020

• Life Expectancy and Health Spending in the OECD

• Cherry blossom

• A data analyst workflow, part 1: SQL & tidyverse

R in Organizations

• Deep Learning and Scientific Computing with R torch: the book

• 2023 Workshops Series Kick-off (Mirai Solutions)

• Use of R in Agricultural Chemical Industry in Chile

• Adoption of R by Actuaries Community in Melbourne

• How the Kyber R package connects Google Sheets, RMarkdown, GitHub, and Agenda docs for open education

Resources

• hrbrmstr’s WebR Experiments Index

• Reproducible analytical pipelines with Docker (new chapter in free e-book, “Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R”)

• Quarto word count

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {rtlr} 0.1.0: Print Right-to-left Languages Correctly

• {gitGPT} 0.1.3: Automated Git Commit Messages using the ‘OpenAI’ ‘GPT’ Model

• {softbib} 0.0.1: Software Bibliographies for R Projects

• {powerindexR} 1.0: Measuring the Power in Voting Systems

• {healthyR} 0.2.1: Hospital Data Analysis Workflow Tools

• {lessSEM} 1.4.16: Non-Smooth Regularization for Structural Equation Models

• {INLAspacetime} 0.1.5: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Models using ‘INLA’

• {xmeta} 1.3.1: A Toolbox for Multivariate Meta-Analysis

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {plot2} 0.0.1: Lightweight extension of the base R plot function, with support for automatic grouping and legend printing, and several other enhancements.

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {RcppArmadillo} 0.12.2.0.0: Provides an interface from R to and from Armadillo by utilising the Rcpp R/C++ interface library.

• {ranger} 0.15.1: A Fast Implementation of Random Forests - diffify

• {tune} 1.1.0: Tidy Tuning Tools - diffify

• {quantmod} 0.4.22: Quantitative Financial Modelling Framework - diffify

• {workflowsets} 1.0.1: Create a Collection of ‘tidymodels’ Workflows - diffify

• {dbparser} 2.0.1: Introduce new method for paring DrugBank DB and returning an R dvobject diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Data Restructuring via Splits - TidyX Episode 140

• Perfect Bar Charts in 150 Seconds

R Internationally

• Introducing rtlr - an R Package for RTL Languages

Tutorials

• Use OpenAI text embeddings with #TidyTuesday horror movie descriptions

• How to Modify Variables the Right Way in R

• Tips for using chatGPT to learn R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

R Contributor Office Hours, Thursday April 13: Europe/Middle East/Asia-Pacific Hour or Americas Hour

Join an online Office Hour at the time that suits you to - discuss how to get started contributing to R - get help/feedback on contributions you are working on - look at open bugs/work on translations together

Call for Participation

• SatRdays London is now Hybrid! (April 21 registraction deadline)

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

• April 13: Generalized Additive Models in R Workshop

• April 13: {activityinfo} package updates webinar

• April 20: Dataviz with R and ggplot: Using colour and annotations for effective story telling workshop

• April 22: SatRdays London 2023

• May 4: Introduction to Deep Learning with R workshop

• May 16 - 19: Regression Modeling Strategies Course (Virtual Course)

• June 5-9: R/Medicine 2023

• June 21-23: Rencontres R Avignon, France \@rencontres_R

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Quotes of the Week

Calculating multiple lags for time series is annoying.

Here's an insanely powerful combo from @paul_elotro to make your life easier.

It channels the full #rstats power with

1️⃣ partial() + map() from {purrr}
2️⃣ curly-curly from {rlang}
3️⃣ mutate() + across() from {dplyr} pic.twitter.com/Gd9ZrTjHg4

— Albert Rapp (@rappa753) April 3, 2023

The {softbib} 📦#RStats scans a project folder, detects the software used, and magically creates software bibliographies: Word, PDF, Rmd and BibTeX.

Complements our new free article which argues that researchers should acknowledge the contributions of software devs to science https://t.co/k9DotSlqgu

— Vincent Arel-Bundock (@VincentAB) April 6, 2023