R Weekly 2024-W19 R Vulnerability, Birthday, ShinyConf Highlights

07 May 2024

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

Highlight

• Everything you never wanted to know about the R vulnerability, but shouldn’t be afraid to ask

• Calculating birthday probabilities with R instead of math: Probability math is hard. Use brute force simulation to find the probability that a household has a cluster of birthdays.

• Highlights from ShinyConf 2024

Insights

• R-Bitrary Code Execution: Vulnerability in R’s deserialization

• Everything you never wanted to know about the R vulnerability, but shouldn’t be afraid to ask

• Reticulating Tibbles

• The IDEs I use

• Highlights from ShinyConf 2024

R in the Real World

• Embracing AI Governance: Lessons Learned from The Data Boom

• Enhancing Clinical Trial Data Sharing with R Consortium’s R Submissions Working Group

International R

• Programación práctica con R: Comienza tu aventura de la ciencia de datos con esta traducción de “Programación Práctica con R” un libro de Garrett Grolemund publicado con el que exploraras con ejemplos los aspectos básicos de programr con R.

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Expenditure-Based and Multivariate Weighted Indices: An R Package to Calculate CPI and Inflation

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {pathfindR} 2.4.0: Enrichment Analysis Utilizing Active Subnetworks

• diffify

• RcppInt64 0.0.5 on CRAN: Minor Maintenance

• qlcal 0.0.11 on CRAN: Calendar Updates

• Introducing TidyDensity Version 1.4.0: Enhancing Data Analysis in R

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Shiny Apps

• Visualizing Power Models in Species-Area Relationships Using R Shiny: An Interactive Educational Tool

• 3MW (Creating apps with R-Shiny)

Tutorials

• Pimping your shiny app with a JavaScript library : an example using sweetalert2

• Polyglotr: the translation package for R

• Calculating birthday probabilities with R instead of math: Probability math is hard. Use brute force simulation to find the probability that a household has a cluster of birthdays.

• Borrowing Information Across Outcomes

• Sketchy waffle charts in R

• Exploring Data with TidyDensity’s tidy_mcmc_sampling()

• Estimating Chisquare Parameters with TidyDensity

• Introducing check_duplicate_rows() from TidyDensity

• Quantile Normalization in R with the {TidyDensity} Package

• Create engaging tables with R or Python using {gt}

• How to interpret and report nonlinear effects from Generalized Additive Models

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• R/Medicine is coming June 10-14, 2024 – See Top Five R Medicine Talks from Previous Years

• Decade of Data: Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation at the New York R Conference

• Optimal policy learning based on causal machine learning in R workshop

• Conducting Simulation Studies in R workshop

• Unlocking Financial Insights: Join Us at the R Finance Conference

• Workshops at posit::conf(2024)

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• SatRdays London 2024: Registration Closing Soon

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