R Weekly 2020-47 NHS-R, testthat utility belt, bayesian networks

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Hello and welcome to this new issue!

Release Date: 2020-11-23

• How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly?

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

Highlight

• NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conference – so much great content, so little time to catch it all…

• Helper code and files for your testthat tests

• Bayesian networks and sports injuries with {bnlearn}

Insights

• Moving away from Travis CI

• Apple Silicon + Big Sur + RStudio + R Field Report

• October 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• fulltext: Behind the Scenes

• #BlackInDataWeek 2020

• COVID-19 Posts: A Public Dataset Containing 400+ COVID-19 Blog Posts

R in the Real World

• Applying PCA to fictional character personalities

• More on Biontech/Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine trial: Adjusting for interim testing in the Bayesian analysis

• Most popular on Netflix, Disney+, Hulu and HBOmax. Weekly Tops for last 60 days

R in Organizations

• NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conference

• NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conference – so much great content, so little time to catch it all…

• NHSr – Rguably the Best Conference in the World

• RStudio 1.4 Preview: New Features in RStudio Server Pro

• shinysnip a VSCode Extension for Shiny Code Snippets

Resources

• Awesome R Learning Resources

• The Mathematics and Statistics of Infectious Disease Outbreaks

New Packages

???? Go Live for More New Pkgs ????

CRAN

• {maptiles} 0.1.1: Download and Display Map Tiles

• {trendeval} 0.0.1: Evaluate Trending Models

• {pocketapi} 0.1: Wrapper Around the ‘Pocket’ API

• {matuR} 0.0.1.0: Athlete Maturation and Biobanding

• {covid19sf} 0.1.0: The Covid19 San Francisco Dataset

• {lazysf} 0.1.0: Delayed Read for ‘GDAL’ Vector Data Sources

• {cinaR} 0.1.0: A Computational Pipeline for Bulk ‘ATAC-Seq’ Profiles

• {driveR} 0.2.0: Prioritizing Cancer Driver Genes Using Genomics Data

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {ggmacc} 0.1.0: R package repository for building marginal abatement cost curves with ggplot2.

Updated Packages

• {d3r} 0.9.1: ‘d3.js’ Utilities for R

• {dm} 0.1.9: Relational Data Models

• {magrittr} 2.0.1: A Forward-Pipe Operator for R

• {tune} 0.1.2: Tidy Tuning Tools

• {tabr} 0.4.4: Music Notation Syntax, Manipulation, Analysis and Transcription in R

• {tidyxl} 1.0.7: Read Untidy Excel Files

• {ggraph} 2.0.4: An Implementation of Grammar of Graphics for Graphs and Networks

• {rtrek} 0.3.2: Datasets and Functions Relating to Star Trek

• {here} 1.0.0: A Simpler Way to Find Your Files

• {rprojroot} 2.0.2: Finding Files in Project Subdirectories

• {constants} 1.0.0: Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty - Update to 2018 CODATA values

• {pathfindR} 1.6.0: Enrichment Analysis Utilizing Active Subnetworks

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD: Episode 119 - Election Night Data Science

• TidyX: Episode 36 - Plotly Animations

• Shiny Developer Series Episode 16: Jiena McLellan

Shiny Apps

• Music collaboration discovery

• corporaexplorer: A Shiny app/R package for dynamic exploration of text collections

• How California Uses Shiny in Production to Fight COVID-19

Tutorials

• Animating Expected Possession Value in the NBA: Part 2

• Textrecipes Version 0.4.0

• Updated Apache Drill R JDBC Interface Package {sergeant.caffeinated} With {dbplyr} 2.x Compatibility

• Little useless-useful R functions – Same function names from different packages or namespaces

• AzureTableStor: R interface to Azure table storage service

• Helper code and files for your testthat tests

• Bayesian networks and sports injuries with {bnlearn}

• Demo: Rendering Images in Polygons with {ggplot2} and {ggpattern}

• How to Catch a Thief: Unmasking Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme with Benford’s Law

• How to export high quality images in R

• Create a map of a country with the neighbouring countries and an inset map

• Animated map of ships, 1750-1799

• Graphical User Interfaces were a mistake but you can still make things right

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

Call for Participation

• Join Us Dec 10 at the COVID-19 Data Forum: Using Mobility Data To Forecast COVID-19 Cases

• The Wild World of Data Repositories

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! ????

Quotes of the Week

Did you know that this map is made 100% with R? #Rstats #Rspatial https://t.co/U4ZrjVb1jY pic.twitter.com/dNtJ705WvF

— neocarto (@neocartocnrs) November 20, 2020

I think there is nothing more ignored than #RStats warning messages. pic.twitter.com/rqYtHMyTUN

— Data Science Question A Day (@data_question) November 16, 2020

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