R Weekly 2023-W05 Testing, Distributed processing, Shiny responsiveness

30 Jan 2023

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

Highlight

• A testing pattern: adding switches to your code

• Geospatial distributed processing with furrr

• Improving the responsiveness of Shiny applications

Insights

• Comeback! Reviving the Warwick R User Group with In-Person and Online Events

R in the Real World

• Geospatial distributed processing with furrr

• GooglyPlusPlus: Win Probability using Deep Learning and player embeddings

• Roadtripping America in R: Turning Spatial Data into Animations with Rayshader

• Star Map with R

• AO, NAO, ENSO: A wavelet analysis example

Resources

• Preventative R Package Care

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {polished} 0.8.0: Authentication and Hosting for ‘shiny’ Apps

• {interpret} 0.1.33: Fit Interpretable Machine Learning Models

• {injurytools} 1.0.0: A Toolkit for Sports Injury Data Analysis

• {shiny.fluent} 0.3.0: Microsoft Fluent UI for Shiny Apps

• {rdracor} 0.7.2: Access to the ‘DraCor’ API

GitHub

• {shinyHeatmap} 0.2.0

• {ggplate} 0.0.1

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {tidyr} 1.3.0: Tidy Messy Data - diffify

• {r5r} 1.0.0: Rapid Realistic Routing with ‘R5’ - diffify

• {lite} 1.1.0: Likelihood-Based Inference for Time Series Extremes - diffify

• {vetiver} 0.2.0: Version, Share, Deploy, and Monitor Models - diffify

• {groundhog} 2.2.0: Version-Control for CRAN, GitHub, and GitLab Packages - diffify

• {text2sdg} 1.0.0: Detecting UN Sustainable Development Goals in Text - diffify

• {inti} 0.6.0: Tools and Statistical Procedures in Plant Science - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• TidyX Episode 133: Intro to Flexdashboard - Flexing your Dashboard

• Examining distributions with Raincloud Plots in R

Shiny Apps

• Improving the responsiveness of Shiny applications

• Finding Economic Articles with Data und Stata Reproductions

• MiRiM - RiskMetrics - v1.1

Tutorials

• Combining Shiny and Quarto. A love story.

• Distributing R packages with a drat repository hosted on AWS S3

• A testing pattern: adding switches to your code

• Why comment your code as little (and as well) as possible

• tidyr 1.3.0

• Safe-and-simple cleaning of species occurrences

• How to generate data from a model – Part 2

• Making headlines

• nanonext - High Performance Persistent HTTP Sessions

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

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

• {targets} in Action (January 31)

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• Feb 23: Making Beautiful And Effective Maps In R

• March 15-17: ShinyConf 2023

• SatRdays London 2023

Grants & Funding

Datasets

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

• The Music of the Spheres

Happy to share my new map of tree cover in Europe!#europe #forest #nature #RStats #DataScience #dataviz #maps #geospatial pic.twitter.com/YXuMU2A1mG

— Milos Popovic (@milos_agathon) January 28, 2023

This semester, Wednesday is #rayshader day so here's a population density map of the world. This is at 30 arc-second (~ 1km) resolution; not sure if raymachine can handle 400m. Will find out as soon as the data loads...😋#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/X6Yed2V2IP

— terence fosstodon (@researchremora) January 25, 2023

Quotes of the Week

You can step up your data visualization game with {ggiraph} & {patchwork}.

Two premier tools for creating interactive, connected plots with click events and tool-tips. (And they're super easy to use too.)

Code: https://t.co/MwbHYjdVN1#rstats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/qup1n3mTro

— Albert Rapp (@rappa753) January 28, 2023

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RT @StevenXGe #AI #ML #programmer #dataScientist pic.twitter.com/F4HmIDHdmQ

— Rosana Ferrero🕊☮️🏳 (@RosanaFerrero) January 27, 2023