R Weekly 2022-W24

13 Jun 2022

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

Highlight

• Changes (for the better) in {gt} 0.6.0

• Creating flowcharts with {ggplot2}

• Listen to R-Weekly Highlights Episode 82

Insights

• Arrays and tables in Arrow

• April: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• Changes (for the better) in {gt} 0.6.0

• Survivor Advantages: Dataset showcase for {survivoR}

• Simulation Based Estimation — How You Estimate as if You were Playing Monopoly

• Announcing vetiver for MLOps in R and Python

• The Critical Shift to Data in the Finance Industry

• Grow Your Data Science Skills With Academy

R in the Real World

• Get data into Wikibase and Wikidata with R: An import workflow derived from a real world project

R in Academia

• ChromoMap: an R package for interactive visualization of multi-omics data and annotation of chromosomes

• CRAN Task View: Reproducible Research: The goal of reproducible research is to tie specific instructions to data analysis and experimental data so that scholarship can be recreated, better understood and verified.

Resources

• Try R v4.2 in your browser

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {mod2rm} 0.1.0: (Multi-)moderator analysis for two-instance repeated measures designs (cf. MEMORE for SPSS)

• {xaringanExtra} 0.6.0: Extras and Extensions for ‘xaringan’ Slides

• {gtExtras} 0.4.0: Provides additional functions for creating beautiful tables with ‘gt’.

• {rock} 0.5.5: The Reproducible Open Coding Kit (rock) was developed to facilitate reproducible and open coding, specifically geared towards qualitative research methods

Updated Packages

• {parallelly} 1.32.0 - diffify: Enhancing the ‘parallel’ Package -

• {santoku} 0.8.0 - diffify: A versatile cutting tool

Videos and Podcasts

• Aaron Clark: Tutorial: Evaluate values from dynamically produced UI modules

• Cancer Somatic Mutation Analysis, MAFtools R Package

• TidyX Episode 106, R Classes and Objects - Factors

Gist & Cookbook

• tidyverse-tips

Tutorials

• Creating flowcharts with {ggplot2}

• R Workflow by Frank Harrell

• Using ggplot2 to create Treatment Timelines with Multiple Variables

• rebuilding R blog from scratch with quarto in Twitter thread by Albert Rapp

• How to use multiple colour scales in ggplot with {ggnewscale}

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• UseR! (Online): June 20th-23rd

• Rstudio::Conf: July 25th-28th

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• RStudio Community Monthly Events Roundup - June 2022

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

The current state of my library of R programming books! 😻📚#rstats #programming #datascience pic.twitter.com/7A6q1eDXNW

— Indrajeet Patil (इंद्रजीत पाटील) (@patilindrajeets) June 8, 2022

Pipes in #RStats! Functions are verbs, aplied to objects. With pipes "|>" we arrange functions in the order that we would think of the actions. Readability for the win! (And I like to read the pipe as "and then...")🎂🥣🥮👩‍🍳🔪🍴 pic.twitter.com/rUrcugfvSk

— Arthur Welle (@ArthurWelle) June 11, 2022

I'm rebuilding my #rstats blog from scratch with #quarto. This is ✨PART 2✨ of my tweetorial.

Once again, you can follow along all steps in my dedicated repo https://t.co/b8ByuRhvNj

Also, here's part 1 (in case you missed it).https://t.co/lSKwfPb8Lo

— Albert Rapp (@rappa753) June 5, 2022