Release Date: 2021-02-22
This week’s release was curated by Eric Nantz, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors. ( twitter.com )
Highlight
- Multi-page {shiny} Applications with {brochure} ( colinfay.me )
- Make Your R Package Easier to Cite ( ropensci.org )
- Refactoring
squashinformr( needleinthehay.ca )
Insights
- Preparing for an Accessible Online Conference ( user2021.r-project.org )
- rOpenSci Statistical Software Testing and Peer Review ( ropensci.org )
- One or two things I wish I had learned in school, the beginning ( uncmbbtrivia.netlify.com )
- Shuffling my Spotify Liked Songs or: checking my assumptions ( frie.codes )
R in the Real World
- First mlverse survey results – software, applications, and beyond ( blogs.rstudio.com )
- EU Vaccine Procurement and a Public Goods Dilemma ( skranz.github.io )
- Finding similar spatial patterns ( nowosad.github.io )
- Who Was The Funniest Character on Friends? Analyzing Comedy in All Friends Episodes ( theartandscienceofdata.wordpress.com )
R in Organizations
R in Academia
- why does rbinom(1,1) differ from sample(0:1,1) with the same seed? ( xianblog.wordpress.com )
- Seeing the Impossible: Visualizing Latent Variable Models with flexplavaan ( psyarxiv.com )
- Creating optimal conditions for reproducible data analysis in 𝖱 with ‘fertile’ ( onlinelibrary.wiley.com )
Resources
- Make Your R Package Easier to Cite ( ropensci.org )
- Selecting the correct image file type ( jumpingrivers.com )
New Packages
CRAN
- {reactablefmtr} 0.1.0: Simplify Formatting of Tables Made with ‘Reactable’ ( cran.r-project.org )
- {pharmaRTF} 0.1.2: Enhanced RTF Wrapper for Use with Existing Table Packages ( cran.r-project.org )
- {provDebugR} 1.0: A Time-Travelling Debugger ( cran.r-project.org )
- {AdvancedBasketballStats} 1.0.0: Advanced Basketball Statistics ( cran.r-project.org )
- {vmr} 0.0.1: Virtual Machines for R ( cran.r-project.org )
- {memery} 0.5.6: Internet Memes for Data Analysts ( cran.r-project.org )
- {rando} 0.2.0: Context Aware Random Numbers ( cran.r-project.org )
- {flipr} 0.1.1: Flexible Inference via Permutations in R ( cran.r-project.org )
- {sentometrics} 0.8.3: An Integrated Framework for Textual Sentiment Time Series Aggregation and Prediction ( cran.r-project.org )
GitHub or Bitbucket
- {openlibraryR} 0.0.0.9: Access Book Data via the Open Library API ( github.com )
- {brickset}: R package to interface with the Brickset API for getting data about LEGO. ( github.com )
- {ConfusionTableR} 0.1.0: Creates varied sized data frames for trained caret models. ( hutsons-hacks.info )
- {afrihealthsites} 0.1.0: Access to geographic locations of african health sites from different sources. ( github.com )
Updated Packages
- Refactoring
squashinformr( needleinthehay.ca ) - {ragg} 1.1.0: Graphic Devices Based on AGG ( cran.r-project.org )
- {crul} 1.1.0: HTTP Client ( cran.r-project.org )
- td 0.0.2 on CRAN: Updated and Expanded ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com )
- dang 0.0.13: New intradayMarketMonitor ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com )
- {nhlapi} 0.1.3: A Minimum-Dependency ‘R’ Interface to the ‘NHL’ API ( cran.r-project.org )
- {kableExtra} 1.3.2: Construct Complex Table with ‘kable’ and Pipe Syntax ( cran.r-project.org )
- {rayimage} 0.5.1: Image Processing for Simulated Cameras ( cran.r-project.org )
- {rsample} 0.0.9: General Resampling Infrastructure ( cran.r-project.org )
- {reportfactory} 0.1.3: Lightweight Infrastructure for Handling Multiple R Markdown Documents ( cran.r-project.org )
- {tidySEM} 0.1.6: Tidy Structural Equation Modeling ( cran.r-project.org )
- {svglite} 2.0.0: A lightweight svg graphics device for R. ( tidyverse.org )
- {shinysurveys} 0.1.2: Develop and deploy surveys in Shiny/R. ( github.com )
- {datamods} 1.0.1: Shiny modules to import data into an application or addin. ( github.com )
Videos and Podcasts
- How to plot in R with {echarts4r} ( youtube.com )
- Building a blog post using {blogdown}! ( twitch.tv )
- How to Protect R Projects from Breaking Changes in Packages: {renv} ( youtu.be )
Shiny Apps
- Multi-page {shiny} Applications with {brochure} ( colinfay.me )
- {shinysurveys} 0.1.2: Create and Deploy Surveys in ‘Shiny’ ( cran.r-project.org )
- {datamods} 1.0.1: Modules to Import and Manipulate Data in ‘Shiny’ ( cran.r-project.org )
- Targets Shiny: Simple prototype to help you build powerful data pipelines inside apps. ( wlandau.shinyapps.io )
R Internationally
- Rzine - Diffusion et partage de ressources sur la pratique de R en sciences humaines et sociales ( rzine.fr )
- Major Success! Highlights from the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (CODA.br) ( r-consortium.org )
- Interview with Nontsikelelo Shongwe, Co-Organizer of the Eswatini UseR Meetup Group ( r-consortium.org )
Tutorials
- Modifying R6 objects after creation ( coolbutuseless.github.io )
- Modifying R6 objects after creation - Part 2 ( coolbutuseless.github.io )
- Reintroducing myself to football analytics via understatr ( austinwehrwein.com )
- A Simple Ray-Tracer Written in Base R ( coolbutuseless.github.io )
- Visualizing the treatment effect with an ordinal outcome ( rdatagen.net )
- Getting Into the Rhythm of Chart Typography with {ragg} and {hrbragg} (a.k.a. It’s {ragg}-time} ( rud.is )
- Little useless-useful R functions – Using L-Systems for useless writing ( tomaztsql.wordpress.com )
- What we R about when we R about R and Arduino ( rpubs.com )
- Reintroducing myself to football analytics via understatr ( austinwehrwein.com )
- Testing The Equality of Regression Coefficients ( shouldbewriting.netlify.app )
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core: ( developer.r-project.org )
Upcoming Events in 3 Months
Events in 3 Months:
- A list of R conferences and meetings ( jumpingrivers.github.io )
- This week’s local R-User and applied stats events ( community.rstudio.com )
