R Weekly 2019-45 {renv}, {tvthemes}

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Hello and welcome to this new issue!

Release Date: 2019-11-11

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

Highlight

• renv: Project Environments for R

• {tvthemes 1.1.0} is on CRAN: Creating a {pkgdown} website, Gravity Falls palette, and more!

Insights

• When you think class(.) == *, think again!

R in the Real World

• Exploring Switzerland Official Data

R in Organizations

• New R Support in Azure Machine Learning

R in Academia

• tidync: scientific array data from NetCDF in R

• rOpenSci Announces a New Award From The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to Improve the Scientific Package Ecosystem for R

• Using R to analyze and visualize tweets from SACNAS

Resources

• Another Book on Data Science - Learn R and Python in Parallel

Updated Packages

• renv: Project Environments for R

• Package Manager 1.1.0: No Interruptions

• {tvthemes 1.1.0} is on CRAN: Creating a {pkgdown} website, Gravity Falls palette, and more!

• Rcpp 1.0.3: More Spit and Polish

• styler 1.2.0: Alignment detection, curly curly & addin enhancements

• testthat 2.3.0: Overhaul of error handling & polished output

• haven 2.2.0: Read in only part of a large file

• future 1.15.0: Lazy Futures are Now Launched if Queried

Videos and Podcasts

• This week in algorithmic bias

Tutorials

• XML: The Recursive Programming Workout

• 30 days building maps (1) - ggplot2

• Installing Prophet on CentOS

• Scraping Machinery Parts

• A small simple random sample will often be better than a huge not-so-random one by @ellis2013nz

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Yes We Cran: A conference on R packages and their applications, December 6-8

• Japan.R 2019, December 7

• rOpenSci OzUnconf, December 11-13

• R @ ISSA, December 26

• Tidyverse Dev Day, January 31

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

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

Quotes of the Week

#ggplot2 guitar chord chart/fretboard diagrams in your R markdown document. https://t.co/zOgzftbqmT (Would be nice if Twitter's image preview didn't cut off the actual code; it's there.) #rstats pic.twitter.com/kL5ZT9YpMH

— Matthew Leonawicz (@leonawicz) November 6, 2019

I was trying to explain to novices what #rstats {magrittr} pipe does and all I could think of is these two examples pic.twitter.com/53Vxgtxh62

— Deemah ???????? ???????? ???????? (@dmi3k) November 5, 2019

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