R Weekly 2021-W17 Wikidata, knitr, Top 40 New CRAN packages
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Hello and welcome to this new issue!
This week’s release was curated by Batool Almarzouq, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.
Highlight
Insights
R in the Real World
Can we rely on synthetic data to overcome data governance issue in healthcare?
Recidivism: Identifying the Most Important Predictors for Re-offending with OneR
R in Academia
New Packages
???? Go Live for More New Pkgs ????
CRAN
{lookup} 1.0: Functions similar to VLOOKUP in Excel.
{preferably} 0.3.0: A {pkgdown} accessible template with support for dynamic light/dark mode.
{PooledCohort} 0.0.1: Predict 10-Year Risk for Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
{circle} 0.7.1: R Client Package for Circle CI
{sportyR} 1.0.1: Plot Scaled ‘ggplot’ Representations of Sports Playing Surfaces
- {tidywikidatar} 0.2.0: Query ‘Wikidata’ with ease, get tidy data frames in response, and cache data in a local ‘SQLite’ database.
Updated Packages
{terrainr} 0.4.0: Landscape Visualizations in R and ‘Unity’
{knitr} 1.33: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R
{predictrace} 2.0.0: Predict the Race and Gender of a Given Name Using Census and Social Security Administration Data
{haven} 2.4.1: Import and Export ‘SPSS’, ‘Stata’ and ‘SAS’ Files
{taxonomizr} 0.7.1: Functions to Work with NCBI Accessions and Taxonomy
{fontawesome} 0.2.1: Easily Work with ‘Font Awesome’ Icons
{rPanglaoDB} 0.2.0: Download and Merge Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data from the PanglaoDB Database
- {cronologia} 0.2.0: Create an HTML Vertical Timeline from a Data Frame in ‘rmarkdown’ and ‘shiny’
- {drake} 7.13.2: A Pipeline Toolkit for Reproducible Computation at Scale
{ggplotify} 0.0.6: Convert Plot to ‘grob’ or ‘ggplot’ Object
{badger} 0.1.0: Badge for R Package
{reticulate} 1.19: Interface to ‘Python’
{flashlight} 0.8.0: Shed Light on Black Box Machine Learning Models
Videos and Podcasts
Fun with R — Lightning Talks — R-Ladies East Lansing & Chicago
R package development — Maelle Salmon — R-Ladies East Lansing & Chicago
Writing R Functions — Stephanie Kirmer — R-Ladies Chicago & East Lansing
Tutorials
Which #TidyTuesday Netflix titles are movies and which are TV shows?
What does Wikidata know about members of the European Parliament?
Dealing with non-representative samples with post-stratification
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core:
Upcoming Events in 3 Months
Events in 3 Months:
Call for Participation
Quotes of the Week
Because I'm completely ridiculous, the process of trying to sort baby clothes in our dresser came to its natural conclusion: creating a Shiny app to help us keep track of what baby clothes we have, filterable by age and type. #rstats pic.twitter.com/hOnoVJz2xj
— Isaac Maddow-Zimet (@Imaddowzimet) April 18, 2021
ggiraph + shiny is fantastic!
— Claus Wilke (@ClausWilke) April 20, 2021
~30 lines of code.#dataviz #rstats pic.twitter.com/cEsK4PFROx
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