See the full update at the link above.
Highlights
- “The Minard System” in R ( minard.schochastics.net )
- A guide to creating a Slackbot that sends weekly updates via plumber, googleCloudRunner and Cloud Run ( code.markedmondson.me )
- ggplot2 Wizardry: My Favorite Tricks and secretes for Beautiful Plots in R, Cédric Scherer ( cedricscherer.com )
Insights
- Open-source contribution as a student project ( citizen-statistician.org )
- BI and Data Science: Collaboration Using Data Handoffs ( rstudio.com )
- Questions, answers, and reprexes ( garrickadenbuie.com )
- How flexible neural networks really are? ( eranraviv.com )
- How much overdispersion is too much in typical GLMMs? ( theoreticalecology.wordpress.com )
R in the Real World
- Customer Churn with Keras/TensorFlow and H2O (update) ( shirinsplayground.netlify.app )
- Tidytext analysis of 100DaysOfWriting ( martincadek.com )
Resources
- ggplot2 Wizardry: My Favorite Tricks and secretes for Beautiful Plots in R, Cédric Scherer ( cedricscherer.com )
New Packages
CRAN
- {ferrn} 0.1.0: Facilitate Exploration of touRR optimisatioN ( github.com )
- {jsontools} 0.1.0: Working with JSON Vectors ( cran.r-project.org )
- {stockfish} 0.1.1: Analyze Chess Games with the ‘Stockfish’ Engine ( cran.r-project.org )
- {clinspacy} 1.0.2: Clinical Natural Language Processing using ‘spaCy’, ‘scispaCy’, and ‘medspaCy’ ( cran.r-project.org )
- {plumberDeploy} 0.2.1: Plumber Deployment ( cran.r-project.org )
- {bardr} 0.0.9: Complete Works of William Shakespeare in Tidy Format ( cran.r-project.org )
- {indiedown} 0.1.1: Individual R Markdown Templates ( cran.r-project.org )
GitHub
- {popthemes}: Colour palettes based (mainly) on pop album covers. ( github.com )
Updated Packages
- sparklyr 1.6: weighted quantile summaries, power iteration clustering, spark_write_rds(), and more ( blogs.rstudio.com )
- {targets} 0.3.0: Dynamic Function-Oriented ‘Make’-Like Declarative Workflows ( cran.r-project.org )
- {tidyposterior} 0.1.0: Bayesian Analysis to Compare Models using Resampling Statistics ( cran.r-project.org )
- {ymlthis} 0.1.4: Write ‘YAML’ for ‘R Markdown’, ‘bookdown’, ‘blogdown’, and More ( cran.r-project.org )
- {cricketr} 0.0.26: Analyze Cricketers and Cricket Teams Based on ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru ( cran.r-project.org )
- {plumber} 1.1.0: An API Generator for R ( cran.r-project.org )
- {tweenr} 1.0.2: Interpolate Data for Smooth Animations ( cran.r-project.org )
- {processx} 3.5.0: Execute and Control System Processes ( cran.r-project.org )
- {nflfastR} 4.1.0: Functions to Efficiently Access NFL Play by Play Data ( cran.r-project.org )
- {styler} 1.4.0: Pretty-prints R code without changing the user’s formatting intent ( lorenzwalthert.netlify.com )
Videos and Podcasts
- Creating a pass flow graph (football) in R ( youtube.com )
- Why I don’t use Powerpoint to present Data Analyses In general: HTML-based output formats. More specifically: xaringan. Automation / File types / File sizes ( youtu.be )
- Programming with R and the tidyverse, Part 1 and Part 2 ( youtube.com )
- Fueling the virtual racing league Shiny dashboard with {reactable} ( youtube.com )
- Build ggplot2 Code with TDrag-and-Drop ({esquisse}) ( youtube.com )
Gist & Cookbook
Shiny Apps
- Mirai Covid-19 App is one year old ( mirai-solutions.ch )
- Exploring dynamics of different SARS-CoV-2 vaccine rollout strategies ( grenfelllab.shinyapps.io )
Tutorials
- Dimensionality reduction of #TidyTuesday United Nations voting patterns ( juliasilge.com )
- A guide to creating a Slackbot that sends weekly updates via plumber, googleCloudRunner and Cloud Run ( code.markedmondson.me )
- Use GitHub actions with R Markdown and Distill ( etiennebacher.com )
- Running background R jobs in Shiny ( jnolis.com )
- Why I love dplyr’s across ( willhipson.netlify.app )
- When interpolation doesn’t work with GAMs ( seascapemodels.org )
- How to solve common problems with GAMs ( seascapemodels.org )
- Pseudo-Randomness: Creating Fake Noise ( ephorie.de )
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core: ( developer.r-project.org )
Upcoming Events in 3 Months
Events in 3 Months:
- May 3rd: Hackathon sponsored by NanoString Technologies ( r-posts.com )
- May 14th: Time to get your Shiny on, Shiny Contest 2021 is here! ( rstudio.com )
- May 26-28: NIMBLE virtual short course ( r-nimble.org )
- June 1: “Introduction to R” pre-conference workshop for PuG (German) ( pug2021.de )
- June 1: “Reproducibility in R” pre-conference workshop for PuG ( pug2021.de )
- A list of R conferences and meetings ( jumpingrivers.github.io )
- This week’s local R-User and applied stats events ( community.rstudio.com )
- Set up Your R Package to Get the Most out of Your Community ( ropensci.org )
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R Weekly 2021-W12 {gt} cookbook, best weather cities, mapping over many files
22 Mar 2021
This week’s release was curated by Miles McBain, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors. ( twitter.com )
Highlight
- The GT Cookbook ( themockup.blog )
- Cities with Best (and Worst) Weather, 2021 edition ( taraskaduk.com )
- How to treat as many files as fit on your hard disk without loops (sorta) nor running out of memory all the while being as lazy as possible ( brodrigues.co )
Insights
- The Rise and Fall: impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on bioRxiv preprints ( quantixed.org )
- How to treat as many files as fit on your hard disk without loops (sorta) nor running out of memory all the while being as lazy as possible ( brodrigues.co )
- Virtual Windows machine for checking R packages ( developer.r-project.org )
- SQLite is great for R and Shiny. The dbmisc package may help a bit. ( skranz.github.io )
- Cupid’s Arrow: How to Boost your Chances at Speed Dating! ( ephorie.de )
- Simplifying geospatial features in R with sf and rmapshaper ( datascience.blog.wzb.eu )
- Framework for power analysis using simulation ( rdatagen.net )
- Estimating pi with Monte Carlo simulation ( statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com )
- From multinomial regression to binary classification on some Siamese data ( freakonometrics.hypotheses.org )
- Software licensing ( nhsrcommunity.com )
- Cities with Best (and Worst) Weather, 2021 edition ( taraskaduk.com )
- How to Cite R Packages Like R Markdown ( njtierney.com )
- When Less is More: Data Tables That Make a Difference ( ouseful.info )
- RSQLite concurrency issues — solution included ( r-hub.io )
Resources
New Packages
CRAN
- {r6methods} 0.1.0: Generate get and set methods for R6 class fields. ( github.com )
- {pkgdepends} 0.1.0: Package Dependency Resolution and Downloads ( cran.r-project.org )
- ‘nestr’ - an R package for building nested structures ( github.com )
- {spotidy} 0.1.0: Providing Convenience Functions to Connect R with the Spotify API ( cran.r-project.org )
- {sfnetworks} 0.5.0: a tidy approach to spatial network analysis. ( cran.r-project.org )
GitHub or Bitbucket
- Introducing ‘fugly’ - fast regular expression substring extraction with named capture groups ( coolbutuseless.github.io )
- ‘twitchr’ - interact with the Twitch API to extract basic public data! ( github.com )
- {ascorthemes}: Xaringan slide themes for ASCoR (University of Amsterdam) ( github.com )
Updated Packages
- New Version of the Package “Vecsets” is on CRAN ( r-posts.com )
- {gghilbertstrings}: Create Hilbert curves in ggplot2 ( github.com )
- {box} 1.0.1: Write Reusable, Composable and Modular R Code ( cran.r-project.org )
- {DALEX} 2.2.0: moDel Agnostic Language for Exploration and eXplanation ( cran.r-project.org )
- {stars} 0.5-2: Spatiotemporal Arrays, Raster and Vector Data Cubes ( cran.r-project.org )
- {sf} 0.9-8: Simple Features for R ( cran.r-project.org )
- {ragg} 1.1.2: Graphic Devices Based on AGG ( cran.r-project.org )
- {odbc} 1.3.1: Connect to ODBC Compatible Databases (using the DBI Interface) ( cran.r-project.org )
- {duckdb} 0.2.5: DBI Package for the DuckDB Database Management System ( cran.r-project.org )
- {fitzRoy} 1.0.0: Easily Scrape and Process AFL Data ( cran.r-project.org )
Videos and Podcasts
- R in Pharma X-Session Recordings ( rstudio.com )
- rstudio::global(2021) X-Session recordings ( rstudio.com )
Gist & Cookbook
- The GT Cookbook ( themockup.blog )
Shiny Apps
R Internationally
- Análisis de Encuestas con R - (Survey analysis with R) ( hungry-payne-1dcce3.netlify.app )
- データフレームからランダムにデータを抽出したい ( uribo.hatenablog.com )
Tutorials
- Update to Code for case study - Customer Churn with Keras/TensorFlow and H2O ( shirinsplayground.netlify.com )
- torch time series, take three: Sequence-to-sequence prediction ( blogs.rstudio.com )
- torch time series, final episode: Attention ( blogs.rstudio.com )
- Florence Nightingale’s “rose charts” (and others) in ggplot2 ( nsaunders.wordpress.com )
- k-Means 101: An introductory guide to k-Means clustering in R ( shirinsplayground.netlify.com )
- Applying design guidelines to slides with {xaringanthemer} ( katiejolly.io )
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core: ( developer.r-project.org )
Upcoming Events in 3 Months
Events in 3 Months:
- March 5 - May 21: TIER Symposium on instruction in resproducible research ( projecttier.org )
- March 22 Why R Webinar - Analysing Political Speeches in R - some approaches ( whyr.pl )
- March 23 LondonR March Workshop 2021 ( mango-solutions.com )
- May 3rd: Hackathon sponsored by NanoString Technologies ( r-posts.com )
- May 14th: Time to get your Shiny on, Shiny Contest 2021 is here! ( rstudio.com )
- May 26-28: NIMBLE virtual short course ( r-nimble.org )
- June 1: “Introduction to R” pre-conference workshop for PuG (German) ( pug2021.de )
- June 1: “Reproducibility in R” pre-conference workshop for PuG ( pug2021.de )
- A list of R and R-adjacent conferences in 2021 ( rviews.rstudio.com )
- A list of R conferences and meetings ( jumpingrivers.github.io )
- This week’s local R-User and applied stats events ( community.rstudio.com )