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R Weekly 2020-45 Publishing, Prefrontal Cortex, Parentheses
Posted: 08 Nov 2020 04:00 PM PST
Hello and welcome to this new issue!
Release Date: 2020-11-09
This week’s release was curated by Robert Hickman, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.
Highlight
- Single-source publishing for R users
- Using VisiumExperiment at spatialLIBD package
- RStudio 1.4 Preview: Rainbow Parentheses
Insights
- Will R Work on Apple Silicon?
- Defending the indefensible
- Why RStudio Supports Python for Data Science
- How isolate() can bite you in the butt
- time-lining the Trump presidency
- Single-source publishing for R users
- Continental or Domestic? Detailing England’s most successful clubs
- asymmetric information
- sampling w/o replacement except when replacing
- Knight’s Tour Problem
- 8 Queens Chess Problem
- PredictIt vs Five Thirty Eight: An explanation of the differences between prediction markets and polling models
- Using rvest and stringr to generate a dataframe of UK Government COVID19 Press Briefings
- M5 Competition Virtual Awards Ceremony
R in the Real World
- Different Maps, Same Data
- Financial Engineering: Static Replication of any Payoff Function
- A live election-night prediction model using The Economist’s pre-election forecast
R in Organizations
Resources
- “Become an R Package Developer!”, Materials for R-Ladies Bergen meetup
- Using VisiumExperiment at spatialLIBD package
- A Chess Engine in RStats (Proof-of-Concept using Stockfish)
- Little useless-useful R functions – Wacky Password generator
- RStudio 1.4 Preview: Rainbow Parentheses
- torch for tabular data
- Cleaning up my R packages and config files
- Little useless-useful R functions – R Lorem Ipsum
New Packages
CRAN
GitHub or Bitbucket
Updated Packages
- {typed}: Static Typing for R
- {future} 1.20.1 - The Future Just Got a Bit Brighter
- {dbplyr} 2.0.0
- {RcppSimdJson} 0.1.2: New Upstream, New Utilities
Videos and Podcasts
- Debugging with Dean (in R) #2 - How isolate() can bite you in the butt!
- R para visualizar datos deportivos espaciales
R Internationally
- Tutorial on how to create interactive tables for HTML reports and web pages
- Tutorial in French on how to create static tables for PDF reports in R
Tutorials
- Biologically Plausible Fake Survival Data
- Statistical/Machine Learning explainability using Kernel Ridge Regression surrogates
- Parsing Forsyth Edwards Notation for Chess in RStats
- Parsing Chess PGN files in RStats
- My R Table Competition 2020 Submission: xG Timeline Table for Soccer/Football with {gt}!
- R & Python Rosetta Stone: EDA with dplyr vs pandas
- Trust the Future
- How to Rename Factor Levels in R using levels() and dplyr
- How is the F-statistic computed in anova() when there are multiple models?
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core:
Upcoming Events in 3 Months
Events in 3 Months:
Datasets
Jobs
R job alert! https://twitter.com/EngelhardtCR/status/1324756491899936769
— RStatsJobsBot (@RStatsJobsBot) November 6, 2020
Get the R job of your dreams! https://twitter.com/noamross/status/1324061816427864065
— RStatsJobsBot (@RStatsJobsBot) November 4, 2020
Woohoo, R job! https://twitter.com/Rbloggers/status/1323672915422945281
— RStatsJobsBot (@RStatsJobsBot) November 3, 2020
Call for Participation
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Quotes of the Week
Drrrawing with purrr#rstats #creativecoding #maths
Tutorial w/code: https://fronkonstin.com/2019/03/27/drrrawing-with-purrr/ pic.twitter.com/4C5kWiaS71
— Antonio Sánchez Chinchón (@aschinchon) November 8, 2020
Day 4 - Hexagons of the #30DayMapChallenge
Mali elevation data #rstats #rspatial pic.twitter.com/P5v7ftf8ep
— Ahmadou Dicko (@dickoah) November 4, 2020
Our new kitten is called Bug. True to his name he already likes to help debugging . (All pics were taken in sequence within 30 secs and were not staged) #rstats #rcatladdies pic.twitter.com/Oy51gbASBa
— Adam Gruer (@AdamGruer) November 8, 2020