R Weekly 2022-W48 Tests from docs, bar plot best practices, RSelenium tutorial

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Hello and welcome to this new issue!

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

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

Highlight

• {doctest} 0.1.0: Generate Tests from Examples Using ‘roxygen’ and ‘testthat’

• A simple checklist for bar plots

• Webscraping with RSelenium: automate your browser actions

Insights

• A simple checklist for bar plots

• Learning Excel as an R user

• Open source is a hard requirement for reproducibility

R in the Real World

• Analyzing Projected Calculations Using R

• High cardinality predictors for #TidyTuesday museums in the UK

• Processing large scale satellite imagery with openEO Platform and R

R in Organizations

• Meeting the stars of the R-universe: R Community, Exchange and Learn

• Going Global During the Pandemic

Resources

• Webscraping with RSelenium: automate your browser actions

• TidyTuesday Data Visualization Gallery

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {onetime} 0.1.0: Run Code Only Once

• {flashr} 0.1.0: Create Flashcards of Terms and Definitions

• {spdl} 0.0.1: Wrapper for ‘RcppSpdlog’ Function

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {doctest} 0.1.0: Generate Tests from Examples Using ‘roxygen’ and ‘testthat’

• {tdcstyle} 0.1.2: Style data.table according to the opinions of TheDataCollective

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {designer} 0.2.0: ‘Shiny’ UI Prototype Builder

• {RcppClassic} 0.9.13: Deprecated ‘classic’ ‘Rcpp’ ‘API’

• {RcppSpdlog} 0.0.10: R and C++ Interfaces to ‘spdlog’ C++ Header Library for Logging

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• TidyX Episode 125 : Combining Multiple Conditions Follow-up

• Nathan Yau: the flow of dataviz

• NHS-R Conference 2022 - Day 1 (16th November 2022) - Edgbaston, Birmingham

Gist & Cookbook

• Get stats by player for a 2022 World Cup match

Tutorials

• Reproducibility with Docker and Github Actions for the average R enjoyer

• Generating clustered data with marginal correlations

• Day 16 of 30DayMapChallenge: Minimal

• Day 15 of 30DayMapChallenge: Food

• RObservations #42: Using the jinjar and tidyRSS packages to make a simple newsletter template

• Some problems related to Dice

• Simple interfaces to the forecasting API

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 2022 Government & Public Sector R Conference

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Quotes of the Week

You might think that selecting something you're thankful for when joining a table with friends and family is a weird statement but turns out it's a common table expression

— Caitlin Hudon (@beeonaposy) November 23, 2022

FOLKS (#RStats)

The latest #Quarto (I grab the bleeding-edge daily via my script) has support for WASM DuckDB in {ojs} blocks!

SQL wrangling vs JavaScript!

(It works with arrow/parquet, JSON, etc., too).

💙 those Quarto and @observablehq devs! pic.twitter.com/OREddf80Ib

— boB Rudis 🇺🇦 🐘@[email protected] (@hrbrmstr) November 22, 2022

Cities in the UK have a much higher density of Greggs per area than rural areas - shown using the {biscale} #rstats package in this map for the "Two Colours" theme!

Code: https://t.co/3a310ciOxw#15MinuteMaps #30DayMapChallenge pic.twitter.com/hymIy5SJQX

— Nicola Rennie | @[email protected] (@nrennie35) November 25, 2022

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