R Weekly 2022-W36 Deciphering the ASD 50c coin, Palmer Penguins forever, rainclouds

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Hello and welcome to this new issue!

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

Highlight

• Australian Signals Directorate 50c Coin Decryption

• Palmer Archipelago Penguins Data in the palmerpenguins R Package - An Alternative to Anderson’s Irises

• Efficient data visualization with faded raincloud plots

Insights

• Interpretability and explainability of predictive models

• How a Local Community Produced the First Nation-wide R useR Group

• Base-R and Tidyverse Code, Side-by-Side

• When Will NYC’s Subway Ridership Recover?

• CO2 Emissions Comparing and Modeling for Global Warming

• Palmer Archipelago Penguins Data in the palmerpenguins R Package - An Alternative to Anderson’s Irises

• Ten simple rules for teaching yourself R

R in the Real World

• Natural Gas Prices for main Hubs in Europe, Asia, and US

• Looking at cash flows

Resources

• 23 New books added to Big Book of R

New Packages

• July 2022: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

{altdoc} 0.1.0: Use ‘Docsify.js’, ‘Docute’, or ‘Mkdocs’ to Generate a Package Documentation

{easystats} 0.5.2: Framework for Easy Statistical Modeling, Visualization, and Reporting

{PrettyCols}: Defines aesthetically pleasing colour palettes.

• {survex} 0.1.1: Explainable Machine Learning in Survival Analysis

• {hippie} 0.1.0: Hippie Code Completion in ‘RStudio’

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {rmdgh} 0.2.0: R to GitHub productivity via Rmarkdown.

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• progressr 0.11.0 - progressr: An Inclusive, Unifying API for Progress Updates

• future 1.28.0 - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone

• {distributional} 0.3.1: Vectorised Probability Distributions.

• {PrettyCols} 1.0.0: Pretty Colour Palettes.

• {gt} 0.7.0: Easily Create Presentation-Ready Display Tables.

• {bonsai} 0.2.0: Model Wrappers for Tree-Based Models.

• {littler} 0.3.16: A scripting and command-line front-end for GNU R

• {reticulate} 1.26: Interface to ‘Python’ - diffify

• {geos} 0.2.0: Open Source Geometry Engine (‘GEOS’) R API - diffify

New R-Universe Articles

• {binman} Basics: An R package that allows the user to manage the downloading of third party binaries.

• {autonewsmd}: Brings the power of conventional commit messages to the R community.

• {tidyverse} Purrr <-> base R Introduction: Compares purrr’s functionals to their base R equivalents, focusing primarily on the map family and related functions

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Shiny Apps

• App for creating visualizations of the composition of European (soccer) squads

Tutorials

• Flexible simulation in simstudy with customized distribution functions

• Little useless-useful R functions – Drawing randomly generated @Github contribution graph

• Australian Signals Directorate 50c Coin Decryption

• Pivoting your tables with Tidyr: Part II

• Efficient data visualization with faded raincloud plots

• Understanding Genetic Data with R Language Bit by Bit

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

R Contribution Working Group Idea Incubator 2022

• Propose/discuss ideas for initiatives to encourage contribution to R via the RCWG issue tracker.

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

• August 31: ‘Build your first Shiny App’ with us

• August 31: Clinical Tables in R with gt & tfrmt

• RStudio Community Monthly Events Roundup - September 2022

• September 9:’Bring a Shiny App to Production’ the hands-on workshop

• September 14 ‘Advanced Shiny Development’ the hands-on workshop”

• September 17: Cascadia R Conference

• September 21: R-Ladies NYC Lightning Talks - RSVP and Call for Speakers

• October 6-7 : Shiny in Production conference from Jumping Rivers

• November 23-25 : I Congreso & XII Jornadas de Usuarios de R

Grants & Funding

• R Consortium ISC Call for Proposals - Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) grants for low-to-medium risk projects with a focused scope and likely to have a broad impact on the R Community. Deadline 2022-10-01.

rtistry

Another variation #Rstats #Rtistry #generativeart pic.twitter.com/T0wodhC88T

— chris (@dickie_roper) August 29, 2022

Quotes of the Week

Alright friends, as promised, here's the #RStats code on how to create the Leo chart with ggplot.

Maybe it's worthy of a "how to" Quarto blog post in the future...Feel free to hit me up if you have questions! 😊

🔗Code: https://t.co/lcf76i2e1w pic.twitter.com/c9rWKloF4S

— Tanya Shapiro (@tanya_shapiro) August 31, 2022

😯 TIL (courtesy of @thomasp85) you can access the defaults for any {ggplot2} geom using the default_aes field (i.e. GeomBlah$default_aes). #rstats
code in a gist: https://t.co/SUTF8JEykX pic.twitter.com/9BA8kgiaxG

— Mara Averick (@dataandme) September 1, 2022

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