R Weekly 2020-17 R 4.0 release, {flair 0.0.2}

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Hello and welcome to this new issue!

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

Highlight

• R 4.0.0 is released

• {flair} 0.0.2 (CRAN): Decorate your R code

Insights

• R 4.0.0 is released

• Announcing tidymodels.org

• The Case for tidymodels

• A case against pipes in R and what to do instead

• Why Is It Called That Way?! – Origin and Meaning of R Package Names

• Encoding your categorical variables based on the response variable and correlations

• Getting to the Right Question

• Recent changes in R spatial and how to be ready for them

R in the Real World

• Papers Please! ‘Wide Open Spaces A statistical technique for measuring space creation in professional soccer’ pt 1

• An Introduction to Modelling Soccer Matches in R (part 2)

• Use R & GitHub as a Workout planner

• Calculating lake outlets using R

• Understanding sriking performance (with the ufc.stats package)

COVID19

• COVID-19: Analyze Mobility Trends with R

• Apple’s COVID Mobility Data

R in Academia

• Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse

• What Panel Data Is Really All About

Resources

• Updated Favorite Data Visualizations - Len Kiefer

• Free Springer Books during COVID19

New Packages

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

CRAN

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {dplyr-cli}: Manipulate CSV files on the command line using dplyr

• {minidrawio}: Create simple draw.io documents from R

• {devoutdrawio}: R graphics device to output to draw.io XML vector format

• {carbonace}: Convert ace editor to high resolution images to share

Updated Packages

• {flair} 0.0.2 (CRAN): Decorate your R code

• {DALEX} 1.2.1 (CRAN): moDel Agnostic Language for Exploration and eXplanation

• {pkgbuild} 1.0.7 (CRAN): Find Tools Needed to Build R Packages

• {poorman} 0.1.11 (CRAN): A simple replication of key ‘dplyr’ verbs using only base R

• {gratia} 0.3.2 (Github): ggplot-based graphics and useful functions for GAMs fitted using the mgcv package

• {xml2} 1.3.2 (CRAN): Parse XML

Videos and Podcasts

• TidyX Episode 6: Exploring BBC Critic rankings Rap Music + Analyzing 2019 NWSL data with {nwslR}

• Easy ggplot2 Theme Customization with {ggeasy}

• Tidy Tuesday live screencast: Analyzing GDPR violations in R

• Advanced R Book Club: Chapter 3: Vectors (2020-04-16), Chapter 4: Subsetting (2020-04-23)

• Noam Ross: R, Coronavirus, and Pandemic Prevention

Gist & Cookbook

• GDPR Violations - Tidy Tuesday - 2020, Week 17 - Antoine Bichat, Georgios Karamanis, John Mutiso

• The City of Lights

• Historical men’s FIFA ranking R Shiny app

R Internationally

• (Japanese) R MarkdownでKaTeXを使う

• (Japanese) {tabularmaps}: カラム地図で行政区の大まかな配置を可視化する

• (Japanese) ポアソン混合モデルの変分推論【緑ベイズ入門のノート】

• (German) How to create an R package in RStudio in 2 minutes

Tutorials

• Miscellaneous Wisdom about R Markdown & Hugo Gained from Work on our Website

• Automatic Code Cleaning in R with Rclean

• Modeling #TidyTuesday GDPR violations with tidymodels

• Pathtracing Neon Landscapes in R

• No excuse not to be a Bayesian anymore

• How to Run Python’s Scikit-Learn in R in 5 minutes

• How to check if groceries are in stock and automatically buy them with R

• Lubridate/ggplot date helpers

• Turning your ggplot2 code into a function

• How to do Excel VLOOKUP in R (using left_join, merge)

• How to showcase CSS+JS+HTML snippets with Hugo?

• Using tmux to work with multiple R sessions in VSCode

• Riddler: Can You Solve The Chess Mystery?

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• May 23rd, 85th (Virtual/Online) TokyoR Meetup

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Datasets

• Financial datasets provided by Marcelo S. Perlin

Jobs

Call for Participation

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

Quotes of the Week

happy stringsAsFactors = hell no day

— Sharla Gelfand (@sharlagelfand) April 24, 2020

I’ve got 99 problems and other people’s choices about data formatting are most of them

— Garrick (@grrrck) April 21, 2020

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