R Weekly Highlights

Eras of MTV and system commands Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder ( @jonmcalder ) Finding the Eras of MTV's The Challenge Through Clustering How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W38

Techniques for creating generative art in R, time tracking with clockify, and the four pipes of magrittr Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye ( @_colinFay ) Art, jasmines, and the water colours {clockify} Time Tracking from R The Four Pipes of magrittr Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W37 View the entire process of recording this episode from the livestream recording on YouT...

Elegant maps with tmap, a data validation ecosystem, and a major release for gitlabr. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Elegant and informative maps with tmap A lightweight data validation ecosystem with R, GitHub, and Slack {gitlabr} 2.0 - Communicate with GitLab API from R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W36 Supplement resources https://r-tmap.github.io/tmap/ Geocompu...

The July top 40 R packages, R Markdown advanced tips video, and colored world maps Episode Links This week's curator: Tony ElHabr ( @TonyElHabr ) July 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages R Markdown Advanced Tips to Become a Better Data Scientist & RStudio Connect with Tom Mock The World's Countries Colored by Their First Letter Supplement resources codemeta: https://github.com/c...

Debugging lessons with source, illustrating the coefficient of variation, and the exciting conclusion to SLICED season one Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain ( @MilesMcBain ) Keep your R scripts locally sourced: A lesson from debugging Exploring R² and regression variance with Euler/Venn diagrams SLICED CHAMPIONSHIP: COMPETITIVE DATA SCIENCE (S01E12) Supplement resources TJ's...

The new {flow} package for visualization R code, and producing donut charts of COVID-19 cases using R. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin ( @R_by_Ryo ) {flow} 0.0.2 : View and Browse Code Using Flow Diagrams. Some Covid Donuts To End The Week Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W33 Supplement resources: {boomer} - Debugging tools to inspect the intermediate steps of a call

Creating mobile-friendly Shiny apps, {gitlabr} 2.0.0, and achieving reproducible workflows with R and Docker Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara ( @R_by_Ryo ) Making Shiny apps mobile friendly {gitlabr} 2.0.0 : Access to the 'Gitlab' API. How to setup a reproducible workflow in R and Docker Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W32 Supplement resources: Jesse Mostipa...

Up and running with officedown, testing with a reprex to solve your problems, and a tidy take on performing hypothesis testing with statsExpressions. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin ( @KellyBodwin ) Up and running with Officedown Reminder to test with a reprex to help yourself solve your problems (or get help!) {statsExpressions} 1.2.0 : Add statistical detail to data frames an...

Top 3 coding best practices from the Shiny contest, improvements in Target Markdown for {targets} 0.6.0, and the new {facetious} package for alternative facets with {ggplot2} Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz ( @theRcast ) Top 3 Coding Best Practices from the Shiny Contest {targets} 0.6.0 : Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Workflows Introducing {facetious}...

How to become a better R code detective, a practical introduction to custom fonts, and making error messages your own. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll ( @carroll_jono ) How to become a better R code detective? Setting up and debugging custom fonts: a practical introduction to the all (new) things font in R Make error messages your own Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2...

Creating a package directly from R-Markdown with {fusen}, and a new milestone release of the {googledrive} package Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) {fusen} 0.2.2 : Build a Package from R Markdown File googledrive 2.0.0 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W28 Supplement Resources How to build a package following Rmd Driven Development GitHub Repository Bat...

Practical tips on starting new R projects, and improving a visualization of US streaming market share. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder ( @jonmcalder ) Draw me a project Improving a Visualization Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W27

Creating your own CRAN-like repository with R-universe, results the third annual Shiny contest, and insights on why to use Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye ( @_colinFay ) How to create your personal CRAN-like repository on R-universe Winners of the 3rd annual Shiny Contest Why Shiny? Insights from a Shiny Developer Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W26 Supplement R...

Projecting and tracking COVID-19 infection rates in England with R, leveraging Wikidata to tag scientific abstracts, and a new deep-learning workflow with the luz package Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman ( @robwhickman ) Tracking SARS-CoV-2 In England with {epidemia} Tagging the Scientific Abstracts with Wikidata Items Que haja luz: More light for torch! Entire issue available...

Using Animal Crossing data with the Google Vision API and machine learning, the latest Shiny developer series with Nick Strayer, and ensuring robust database transactions in Shiny Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr ([@TonyElHabr] Everybody Loves Raymond: Running Animal Crossing Villagers through the Google Vision API Shiny Developer Series Episode 21 : RStudio software engineer Nic...

Reusing knitr chunk options, the combo of VS-Code and R in 2021, and say hello to gggrid Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain ( @MilesMcBain ) Reusing Code Chunks and Chunk Options with knitr R in 2021 with VSCode 'gggrid' it's g-g-great! Accessing 'grid' from 'ggplot2' Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W23

Extracting and analyzing Apple health data, and the top 40 CRAN packages for April Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Changes in Apple Health Export April 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W22 Supplemental Resources https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/timeline-how-apple-piecing-together-its-secret-healthcare-plan https://github....

The big new features in R 4.1.0, what makes a great function example, and evolution of a ggplot Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin ( @KellyBodwin ) New features in R 4.1.0 Package documentation: What makes a good example? Evolution of a ggplot Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W21 Supplemental Resources Full R 4.1.0 changelog Winston Chang's R read-only GitHub Repo mi...

A tidymodels approach to the Introduction to Statistical Learning learning labs, exploring class imbalance on the TidyX video series, and encrypting and hosting a R Markdown report. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara ( @R_by_Ryo ) ISLR: tidymodels labs : This book aims to be a complement to the 1st version An Introduction to Statistical Learning book with translations of the lab...

Using the trifecta of map, walk, and pivot for data processing, obtaining quotes from the Friends characters in R, and putting the spolight on Shiny user interfaces in the Shiny Dev Series. Episode Links This week's curator: Hey, it's me, Eric! ( @theRcast ) Map, Walk, Pivot Introducing {centralperk}: Get quotes from the main characters of the TV show 'Friends' Shiny Developer Seri...

A call to action for testing R 4.1, a practical guide to unit tests, and a tutorial on creating pizza charts with football data Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll ( @carroll_jono ) R Can Use Your Help: Testing R Before Release Writing unit tests in R Soccer Percentile Radars/Pizza's Tutorial Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W18

Exploring wikidata with the {tidywikidatar} package, accessibility improvements in {knitr}, and the top 40 new CRAN packages for March. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq (@batool664) What does Wikidata know about members of the European Parliament? New in knitr: Improved accessibility with image alt text March 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages Entire issue available...

The latest news from rOpenSci, creating ggplot2 postcards with ggirl, and an introduction to process mining in R Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder ( @jonmcalder ) rOpenSci News Digest, April 2021 {ggirl} 1.0.1 : An R package that lets you make ggplots in real life Process Mining in 10 minutes with R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W16 Supplemental Resources rOpenSci Soft...

reprex 2.0, using Kubernetes and the future package, and SQL in RMarkdown Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye ( @_colinFay ) reprex 2.0.0 Using Kubernetes and the Future Package to Easily Parallelize R in the Cloud sql-in-rmarkdown Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W15 Supplemental Resources Jenny Bryan's rstudio::conf 2020 keynote materials : Object of type 'closure...

{workflowsets} with tidy models, exploring other {ggplot2} goems, and top 10 R errors Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman ( @robwhickman ) workflowsets 0.0.1 Exploring Other ggplot2 Geoms The top 10 R errors, the 7th one will surprise you Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W14 Supplemental Resources Screening many models chapter from Tidy Modeling with R Extending ggplot2...