R Weekly 2024-W02

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

Editor’s Note: This issue also includes resources from issues 2023-W52 and 2024-W01 which were not released due to the holiday break. Enjoy!

Highlight

• Four ways to streamline your R workflows

• The case for a pipe assignment operator in R

• Bye, RStudio/Posit! - After writing all these “*down” packages for these years, here I am to announce “Yihui-down”

Insights

• The case for a pipe assignment operator in R

• Bye, RStudio/Posit! - After writing all these “*down” packages for these years, here I am to announce “Yihui-down”

• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 8 – nixpkgs, a tale of the magic of free and open source software and a call for charity

• In-Person Shiny in Production Conference Hosted by North East Data Science Group in Newcastle, UK

• Scaling R to Use with Enterprise Strength Databases

• How Inclusivity, Women in STEM, and Trips to the Pub Together Enrich the Manchester R User Group in the UK

• Salt Lake City R User Group’s Success Story: Blending In-Person and Online Events

• 2023 Year in Review.

• Python Rgonomics

• Four ways to streamline your R workflows

R in the Real World

• Reversion to the Mean: Unraveling a Pervasive Misconception in Business and Beyond

R in Organizations

• Exploristics using R to generate 12 Plots of Christmas Social Media Campaign

• A three-arm trial using two-step randomization

R in Academia

• Patches for the code of Peter Turchin’s Attrition Warfare Model

• qeML Example: Nonparametric Quantile Regression

• Usage shares of programming languages in economics research

Resources

• R package development with several R folders

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• rfold

• tinythemes 0.0.1 at CRAN: New Package

• {bigrquerystorage} 1.0.0: An Interface to Google’s ‘BigQuery Storage’ API

• {Pandora} 23.12.0: Retrieve Data using the API of the ‘Pandora’ Data Platform

• {connections} 0.2.0: Integrates with the ‘RStudio’ Connections Pane and ‘pins’

• {bayesSurv} 3.7: Bayesian Survival Regression with Flexible Error and Random Effects Distributions

• {ggbiplot} 0.6.1: A Grammar of Graphics Implementation of Biplots

• {fanyi} 0.0.5: Translate Words or Sentences via Online Translators

• {amberr} 1.0.0: ‘Amber’ Electronic Data Capture Client

• {cryptoQuotes} 1.0.0: Access OHLC Market Data from Major Cryptocurrency Exchanges

• {crew.aws.batch} 0.0.1: A Crew Launcher Plugin for AWS Batch

• {tidytuesdayR} 1.0.3: Access the Weekly ‘TidyTuesday’ Project Dataset

GitHub or Bitbucket

• codesamples - R code samples From various sources

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• littler 0.3.19 on CRAN: Several Updates

• {vcd} 1.4-12: Visualizing Categorical Data - diffify

• {ggh4x} 0.2.7: Hacks for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {ggVennDiagram} 1.4.9: A ‘ggplot2’ Implement of Venn Diagram - diffify

• {tidyxl} 1.0.10: Read Untidy Excel Files - diffify

• {shinyInvoice} 0.0.4: Shiny App - Generate a Pdf Invoice with ‘Rmarkdown’ - diffify

• {servr} 0.28: A Simple HTTP Server to Serve Static Files or Dynamic Documents - diffify

• {DBI} 1.2.0: R Database Interface - diffify

• {pmparser} 1.0.19: Create and Maintain a Relational Database of Data from PubMed/MEDLINE - diffify

• {hexfont} 0.4.0: ‘GNU Unifont’ Hex Fonts - diffify

• {BayesfMRI} 0.3.11: Spatial Bayesian Methods for Task Functional MRI Studies - diffify

• {admiralophtha} 1.0.0: ADaM in R Asset Library - Ophthalmology - diffify

• {shinyHugePlot} 0.2.6: Efficient Plotting of Large-Sized Data - diffify

• {radiant} 1.6.1: Business Analytics using R and Shiny - diffify

• {string2path} 0.1.6: Rendering Font into ‘data.frame’ - diffify

• {vizdraws} 1.4.2: Visualize Draws from the Prior and Posterior Distributions - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Talk recordings and workshop materials from posit::conf(2023)

• Modeling at posit::conf(2023): Talks and Workshops

• How to Create 5 MUST-KNOW CHARTS with ggplot2

• TidyX Episode 168: Hall of Fame Showdown - Base R Plot Edition

Shiny Apps

• 3MW (More similarities between Py- and R-Shiny)

Tutorials

• 5 Example Charts with ggplot2

• Use google’s Gemini in R with R package “gemini.R”

• Comparing many Models with Fast Regression

• Simulating spatial patterns with the spatial kinetic Ising model

• 3MW (11 Learnings From 11 Charts)

• Cryptocurrency Market Data in R

• .I in data.table

• non-equi joins in data.table

• How to use the list argument in microbenchmark

• Probability intervals with GAMs

• Migrating a blog to Quarto: Reverse engineering HTML to markdown

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• New R/Insurance Webinar Series: The Journey from Excel to High-Performance Programming in R

• Harness the Power of R for Survival Analysis: Join Our {ggsurvfit} Webinar!

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Datasets

• Météo-France Open Data

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Quotes of the Week

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