R Weekly 2023-W10 Parsing, package searching, and a special birthday

06 Mar 2023

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This week’s release was curated by Kelly Bodwin and Emily Robinson, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• “I can’t be parsed, mate!” Parsing in R

• Search for packages in r-universe

• Happy 23rd birthday, R!

Insights

• Happy 23rd birthday, R!

• Tom’s Diner, rang, Bioconductor for nonbioinformaticians, or my preconceptions about dependencies are wrong

• A visual tour of the meta-verse

• A comparison of tidyverse and Base-R

• “I can’t be parsed, mate!” Parsing in R

• Top 40 New Cran Packages of January 2023

R in the Real World

• xG Model Calibration

• Do bonus points lead to more tries in 6 Nations matches?

• Learn where to find reliable climate data and use ggplot2 to show global warming

• The R community in Argentina

• Equity analysis of Liverpool

• Use R to find the perfect kids video

R in Organizations

• Using R in an High Performance Computing environment

• Meet the ThinkR universe

R in Academia

• Untangling the complex interactions between turtle ants and their microbial partners

Resources

• Search for packages in r-universe

• New Books added to Big Book of R

• Essential tools for text cleaning in R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {gto}: gt in the officeverse

• {cbcTools} 0.2.0: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cbcTools/index.html

• {archeoViz} 1.0.0

• {nwslR}: Women’s soccer data

Bioconductor

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {rWCVP}: plant name data

• {cbcTools}: choice-based survey data analysis

• {deft}: make fast data frames in C

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {nanonext} 0.8.0: NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen) Lightweight Messaging Library

• {chatGPT} 0.3.0

• {shinyProxy 3.0.0}

• {shinyrouter 0.3.0}

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Talks from BiocAsia 2022

• TidyTuesday livecast

Gist & Cookbook

• Helpful function for MCMC with NIMBLE or JAGS

Shiny Apps

• NBL 2022-2023 Season In Game Win Probability

• Milano air quality

• Understanding the slope and intercept of a regression line

• Kenyan tourism

• NICAR data journalism resources

R Internationally

Tutorials

• Render parameterized reports with Quarto

• Distribution Regression with R

• Plot moving average in R

• Save space in faceted plots

• Interpreting the Bayesian Rota model

• How to call ChatGPT from R

• Standardizing data in R

• Add polynomial regression lines to R plots

• Deploying an R Shiny App on Heroku via GitHub Actions and Dockerfile to Access Private GitHub Repositories

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• posit::conf(2023) registration and call for talk submissions are now open!

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

• March 6: Data science program for French-Speaking women in Africa

• March 9: Designing charts in R

• March 15-17: ShinyConf 2023

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

• April 13: Generalized Additive Models in R

• SatRdays London 2023

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 2023-04-01.

Datasets

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

💙 Saturday art in #RStats!#GenArtClub #GenerativeArt pic.twitter.com/pEii6POI52

— Nicola Rennie | @[email protected] (@nrennie35) March 4, 2023

Quotes of the Week

What stresses me out isn’t the same thing that stressed my parents out.

True story. 🧵#datascience #rstats pic.twitter.com/i0Iq4QX3B3

— Matt Dancho (Business Science) (@mdancho84) March 1, 2023

object of type 'closure' is not subsettable#RStats pic.twitter.com/5z9khzb4tz

— Isabella Velásquez (@ivelasq3) February 28, 2023

3 months working mostly with Python, and there's not a single day when I don't deeply miss #rstats and especially the tidyverse environment for all things data-related 😭 pic.twitter.com/bjIAEENvSb

— Ariane Aumaitre (Taylor's Version) (@ariamsita) March 1, 2023