R Weekly Highlights

The Minard System in R, ggplot2 wizardry, a slackbot created with plumber and googleCouldRunner Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr ( @TonyElHabr ) "The Minard System" in R A guide to creating a Slackbot that sends weekly updates via plumber, googleCloudRunner and Cloud Run ggplot2 Wizardry: My Favorite Tricks and secrets for Beautiful Plots in R, Cédric Scherer Entire iss...

{gt} tables cookbook, best weather cities, and mapping over many files Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain ( @MilesMcBain ) The GT Cookbook Cities with Best (and Worst) Weather, 2021 edition How to treat as many files as fit on your hard disk without loops (sorta) nor running out of memory all the while being as lazy as possible Supplemental Resources GT Advanced Cookbook R-Podcast...

Time series forecasting with torch, automated scraping of stock metrics with GitHub Actions, and default knitr options and hooks. Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman ( @robwhickman ) Introductory time series forecasting with torch Daily Stock Gainers Automated Web Scraping in R with Github Actions Default knitr options and hooks Supplemental Resources Introducing Torch for R Auto...

Serverless dashboards, learning tidy evaluation by re-implementing dplyr, and bootstrap confidence intervals with tidy modeling Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin ( @KellyBodwin ) Server(shiny)-less dashboards with R, {htmlwidgets} and {crosstalk} Learning tidy eval by re-implementing dplyr Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Super Bowl Commercials Supplemental Resources Learning T...

Random effects, GGanimate intro, and updates to dplyr backends Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara ( @R_by_Ryo ) Random effects and penalized splines are the same thing GGanimating a geographic introduction dplyr backends: multidplyr 0.1.0, dtplyr 1.1.0, dbplyr 2.1.0 Supplemental Resources https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/55364/mixed-model-in-simple-english https://towar...

Multi-page Shiny apps, R package citation, and refactoring the squashinformr package Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz ( @theRcast ) Multi-page {shiny} Applications with {brochure} Make Your R Package Easier to Cite Refactoring {squashinformr}

Installing packages, {distill} for personal websites, and Shiny app stories Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll ( @carroll_jono ) The Comprehensive Guide to Installing R Packages from CRAN, Bioconductor, GitHub and Co. Distill it down Introducing Shiny App Stories Supplemental Resources 20 Years of R Package management basics (Mozilla Developer Network Web Docs) Sharing on Shor...

Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr ( @TonyElHabr ) Shiny 1.6: Theming, Caching, Accessibility Remote Pair Programming in R Using Visual Studio Code and Live Share Lists are my secret weapon for reporting stats with knitr Supplemental Resources Custom theming in Shiny & R Markdown with {bslib} & {thematic} (rstudio::global 2021) Making Shiny apps faster with caching (rstudio...

rstudio::global 2021 and UseR! 2021 call for abstracts Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder ( @jonmcalder ) rstudio::global 2021 talks rstudio::global(2021) %>% summarise() 15th Mar: useR2021 Call for Abstracts Supplemental Resources Lifelong Learning with R Weekly (rstudio::global 2021) Your Public Garden - rstudio::global(2021) Keynote by Vicki Boykis

{blogdown} v1.0, announcing {pagedreport}, and the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye ( @_colinFay ) Announcing blogdown v1.0 Announcing pagedreport Introducing the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide Supplemental Resources Up & running with blogdown in 2021 Yihui's perspective on early development of {blogdown} from episode 24 of The...

Data Science as an atomic habit, Japan soccer league season review, Fantasy football scheduling, and UseR! 2021 call for tutorials Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram King Data science as an atomic habit J.League Soccer 2020 Season Review with R! Fantasy Football and the Classical Scheduling Problem UseR! 2021: Call for Tutorials Supplemental Resources Book Review: Atomic Habits ffsched...

Plots with GitHub Actions, and major updates to {renv} and {fastai} Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq Automatic Rendering of a Plot with GitHub Actions {renv} 0.12.5 : Project Environments {fastai} 2.0.2 : Interface to fastai Supplemental Resources GitHub Actions: built by you, run by us R-Podcast Episode 32: RStudio's Big Move and Kevin Ushey Fully containerized R dev en...

Data Science course in a box, up and running with blogdown, and voting visualization in Switzerland Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram King Data Science Course in a Box - The core content of the course focuses on data acquisition and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, inference, modelling, and effective communication of results. Up & running with blogdown in...

R Markdown family updates & table contest results Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram King Winners of the 2020 RStudio Table Contest Latest News from the R Markdown Family Supplemental Resources Editable DataTables in R Shiny using SQL

Targetopia, extracting JSON data, and ggrepel update Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara ( @R_by_Ryo ) The targetopia: An R package ecosystem for democratized reproducible pipelines at scale Extracting JSON data from websites and public APIs with R {ggrepel} : Automatically Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels with ggplot2. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-51 Supplement...

Underrated tidyverse functions, bullet chart variants, and AWS Lambda with R Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz ( @theRcast ) Underrated Tidyverse Functions Bullet Chart Variants in R R on AWS Lambda with containers Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-50

Extended ggplot2 tutorial, static code analysis, and a customized visual CV with ggplot2 Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll ( @carroll_jono ) An extended version of "A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting" A brief introduction to the basics of R's static code analysis Creation of a custom visual CV by ggplot hacking Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-4...

About this episode Your first R package, magrittr 2.0, and Engineering Shiny use case Episode Links This week's curator: Maelle Salmon ( @ma_salmon ) Your first R package in 1 hour magrittr 2.0 is here! Use case from "Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps" - Building an App, from Start to Finish Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-48 Supplement Resources Recording of Shannon...

About this episode Testthat utility belt, NHS-R conference, and application of Bayesian networks to sports injury prediction Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder ( @jonmcalder ) NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conference -- so much great content, so little time to catch it all... Helper code and files for your testthat tests Bayesian networks and sports injuries with {bnlearn} Entire issue avail...

About this episode Open-access tools to find conronaviruses, developing inside containers, and error handling Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye ( @_colinFay ) Using Open-Access Tools (rentrez, taxize) to Find Coronaviruses, Their Genetic Sequences, and Their Hosts How to develop inside a Docker container to ease collaboration? YAPOEH! (Yet another post on error handling) Entire iss...

About this episode Single source publishing, rainbow parentheses, and VisiumExperiment Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman ( @robwhickman ) Single-source publishing for R users RStudio 1.4 Preview: Rainbow Parentheses Using VisiumExperiment at spatialLIBD package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-45 Supplement Links https://github.com/maelle/bspagedjs https://bookdown.or...

About this episode {emphatic} highlighting, analyzing open political data, and helping data-science learners Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr ( @TonyElHabr ) {emphatic} : Augments the output of data.frames and matrices in R by adding user-defined ANSI highlighting. A guide to accessing & analyzing open source American political data using R Let’s stop doubly-screwing data sci...

About this episode Rolling averages with {slider}, personal art map, and flood mapping Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain ( @MilesMcBain ) Rolling Averages with {slider} and Covid Data Personal Art Map with R Flood mapping and rapid impact assessment in Niamey Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-43 Supplement Links Melt the Clock: Tidy time series analysis by Earo Wang {sli...

About this episode Climate animation, decomposition and smoothing with R and python, and a Raspberry Pi dashboard Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara ( @R_by_Ryo ) Climate animation of maximum temperatures Decomposition and Smoothing with data.table, reticulate, and spatstat Raspberry Pi E-Paper Dashboard with R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-42

About this episode Topics in package development, contributing to ROpenSci, and shining a light on learnr Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz ( @theRcast ) Picking and researching blog topics about R package development Hacktober? Any Month is a Good Month to Contribute to rOpenSci Shiny Developer Series Episode 14 - Shining a Light on {learnr} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2...