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Issue 2022-W21 Highlights

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Amazing software development resources for data scientists, community-contributed R markdown tips & tricks to save you time, and combining GitHub gists and Carbon screenshots with gistillery. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast Software Development Resources for Data Scientists R Markdown Tips and Tricks #3: Time-savers & Trouble-shooters gistillery: Take local code, send it to a Github gist, get a beautiful image from Carbon.now.sh, and make it ready to share! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W21

May 25, 202235 min

Issue 2022-W20 Highlights

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A preview of R for Data Science (2nd edition) with missing data, creating topography maps, and (yes) playing the drums directly in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) New r4ds chapter: missing values Making a crisp topography map with R {tr808r}: Play the drums with an R package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W20 Supplement Resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808

May 19, 202228 min

Issue 2022-W19 Highlights

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A dungeon-crawler for your R console, storytelling in ggplot2 with rounded rectangles, and updates to the tidymodels recipes suite of packages. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay) Simple procedural dungeons in R Storytelling in ggplot using rounded rectangles Updates for recipes extension packages Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W19 Supplement Resources Binder - Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks https://mybinder.org R-Podcast Episode 28 - Tidymodels with Max Kuhn https://r-podcast.org/028-max-kuhn

May 11, 202226 min

Issue 2022-W18 Highlights

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A brand-new tables gallery powered by the R community, noteworthy items from the Appsilon Shiny conference, and R-Markdown is not going anywhere. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast) RStudio Community Table Gallery shinytest2, Rhino R Shiny framework top news at Appsilon conference With Quarto coming, is R Markdown going away? No. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W18 Supplement Resources https://community.rstudio.com/t/expected-goals-xg-shot-timeline-for-soccer-football-with-gt/86449 https://community.rstudio.com/t/conditionally-formatted-state-transition-matrices/120336 https://www.rstudio.com/champion R-Podcast episode 24 (Yihui Xie returns) https://r-podcast.org/024-rstudioconf-yihui-xie

May 5, 202230 min

Issue 2022-W17 Highlights

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Lessons from teaching R to non-programmers, loading a large and messy CSV file with data.table and command-line tools, Bayesian analyses with the brms package, and getting a better understanding of the tidyeval framework. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) 6 Lessons I learned from teaching R to non-programmers Loading a large, messy csv using data.table fread with cli tools Bayesian analyses made easy: GLMMs in R package brms Not so standard evaluations - Getting a better understanding of the tidyeval framework Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W17 Supplement Resources Data science at the command line Learning Bayesian statistics podcast Bayes Rules! An Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling

Apr 27, 202232 min

Issue 2022-W16 Highlights

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An important change coming to the R-spatial ecosystem, enhancing function error reporting with chaining, and traveling down the monad rabbit hole. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr) R-spatial evolution: retirement of rgdal, rgeos and maptools Error chaining Why you should(n't) care about Monads if you're an R programmer Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W16 Supplement Resources Roger Bivand's announcement of the rgdal, rgeos, and maptools packages retirement Geocomputation with R Progress in the R ecosystem for representing and handling spatial data Rweekly Highlights episode 72 Bruno Rodregues' monads YouTube video "Function Factories" Chapter in Advanced R

Apr 20, 202229 min

Issue 2022-W15 Highlights

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The cone of silence is lifted for the Quarto publishing engine, re-creating a storytelling look with ggplot2, and programming a fun Dragon Realm game in Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) We don't talk about Quarto Recreating the Storytelling with Data look with ggplot Programming Games with Shiny - Dragon Realm Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W15 Supplement Resources Recordings of Nic Wan's Viz Buzz online graph competition on YouTube Flowchart Diagrams in GitHub Quarto GitHub discussion board Improve this graph! Storytelling with data YouTube video CRAN task views ctv package GitHub repository

Apr 13, 202231 min

Issue 2022-W14 Highlights

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A trifecta of new R packages for data validation, function logging, and a new ggplot2 extension. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) Exemplar: a prototype R package for data validation {chronicler} 0.1: Implementation of the logger monad in R. {ggbraid} 0.1.0: Braid two lines and a ribbon in ggplot2. Supplement Resources Monads: https://ericlippert.com/category/monads/page/2/ Episode 62: https://rweekly.fireside.fm/62 ggbraid vignette: https://nsgrantham.github.io/ggbraid/articles/hoops.html

Apr 6, 202226 min

Issue 2022-W13 Highlights

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After a brief hiatus, the R-Weekly Highlights podcast is back! In this episode we discuss: Understanding the native R pipe, and using RopenSci's pkgcheck within GitHub Actions. Episode Links This week's curators: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) and Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) Understanding the native R pipe |> pkgcheck now available as a GitHub action! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W13 Supplement Resources Episode 60: https://rweekly.fireside.fm/60 GitHub Actions for the R Community: https://github.com/r-lib/actions/ Appsilon Shiny Conference: https://appsilon.com/2022-appsilon-shiny-conference Shiny Developer Series episode 30 - The Connecticut COVID-19 Test Spotter App (Part 1): https://shinydevseries.com/ep30

Mar 30, 202229 min

Update on RWeekly and 2021 Reflections

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An update on the current state of RWeekly, plus Eric and Mike reflect on their journeys with data science from the industry and consulting perspectives in an eventful 2021! Episode Links The very first issue of RWeekly: https://rweekly.org/issue-0.html R for Data Science Learning Community: https://www.rfordatasci.com discoRd: https://www.r-discord.com/home Analytics Power Hour Episode 184 - Psychological Safety and Analytics with J.D. Long: https://analyticshour.io/2022/01/11/184-psychological-safety-and-analytics-with-j-d-long/ GitHub Project Boards: https://docs.github.com/en/issues/trying-out-the-new-projects-experience/about-projects

Jan 14, 202249 min

Issue 2021-W50 Highlights

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A batch of Shiny tips from creating an application tailored to teaching statistics, and the Big Book of R gains nine new entries to the collection. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) 6 simple Shiny things I have learned from creating a somewhat small app 9 new books added to Big Book of R - In this release there’s 9 new books which covers the widest range of topics of any release to date. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W50 Supplement Resources Albert Rapp's YouTube channel R Development Guide DevOps for Data Science Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers "Introducing {admiral}" presentation at R/Pharma 2021

Dec 15, 202135 min

Issue 2021-W49 Highlights

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A fascinating journey to understand serialization of RDS files in R, and giving an old domain new life with R markdown while giving back to charity. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) Data serialisation in R Day 02: Postcards with distill || rmarkdown + postcards + distill + Netlify || #12daysofdusting Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W49 Supplement Resources https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/12/01/dusty-domains-your-forgotten-domains-raise-money-for-charity https://dusty.domains/

Dec 9, 202132 min

Issue 2021-W48 Highlights

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How GitHub Actions empowers the {cffr} package to perform automated testing with 2,000 packages, recap of the recent R-Ladies Philly workshop on automated testing in R, and introducing the new {filebin} package for easy file sharing. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay) How I Test cffr on (about) 2,000 Packages using GitHub Actions and R-universe Getting started with unit testing in R {filebin} Quick & Easy File Sharing Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W48 Supplement Resources Issue 2021-W47 https://rweekly.org/2021-W47.html GitHub Actions for the R language

Dec 1, 202133 min

Issue 2021-W46 Highlights

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A cautionary tale about ML interpretations with food, practical solutions for dealing with big data in R, and the adventures of installing R on the new Apple Silicon hardware. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr Why machine learning hates vegetables (a dialogue about Zillow) Should I Move to a Database? Transitioning from x86 to arm64 on macOS - experiences of an R user Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W46 Supplement Resources Building code movies with flipbookr A guide to modeling proportions with Bayesian beta and zero-inflated beta regression models by Andrew Heiss

Nov 17, 202137 min

Issue 2021-W45 Highlights

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A lesser-known R function drives finding coordinates on fictitious Pokemon maps, creating customized point shapes with ggplot2 and gggrid, and how the branchMover Shiny app can save you a load of time and effort with GitHub branch renaming. Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) Get coordinates from fictitious maps Custom {ggplot2} point shapes with {gggrid} branchMover: A Shiny app for moving the default branch of your GitHub repos Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W45 Supplement Resources Using {arrow} + {shiny}

Nov 10, 202133 min

Issue 2021-W44 Highlights

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An analysis of dialogue from "The Office", and a package promoting accessibility for visually impaired R-Users. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Analyzing The Office's dialogues {BrailleR} 0.32.1: Improved Access for Blind Users Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W44 Supplement Resources {schrute} package by Brad Lindlad Danilo's data viz portfolio The Pudding data viz publication Silicon Valley Hot Dog Scene JooYoung Seo's Talk at RStudio::Global

Nov 3, 202124 min

Issue 2021-W43 Highlights

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A tutorial on getting started with aRtistry, simulating the Squid Game bridge scene, and a video demonstration of installing Shiny server on AWS. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) Simulating the Squid Game Bridge Scene Thinking outside the grid - A "bare bones" introduction to Rtistry concepts in R using ggplot TBD, but likely a Shiny server video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4T0qfqY7k Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W43 Supplement Resources "Hosting Data Apps" Blog by Analythium Meghan Harris' website, The Tidy Trekker

Oct 27, 202130 min

Issue 2021-W42 Highlights

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A major announcement for R developers interested in type safety, thoughts on using Visual Studio Code from the perspective of a long-time RStudio user, and the adventures of filling regions between lines with ggplot2. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) Introducing rpp: The long-term goal of the organisation is to add static type checking and other features to R, with zero cost at run time How not to be lost with VSCode when coming from RStudio? Fill the region between two lines in ggplot2 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W42 Supplement Resources Type safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety Eric's R development repository: https://github.com/rpodcast/r_dev_projects Visual Studio Code R extension: https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R Looking to provide feedback on this episode and the podcast in general? Feel free to get in touch with Mike (@mike_ketchbrook) or Eric (@theRcast) on Twitter!

Oct 20, 202130 min

Issue 2021-W41 Highlights

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Using the helpers from usethis for pull request workflows, 2021 New York R conference videos now available, and the origins of the newly released ggalignment package for D&D inspired alignments. Plus, a new era of the podcast begins with our new co-host Mike Thomas! Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast) Welcome our brand new co-host Mike Thomas! (@mike_ketchbrook) Pull Request Flow with usethis 2021 New York R Conference Videos {ggalignment} 1.0.0: Plots 'D&D'-Style Alignment Charts Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W41 Supplement Resources {gert}: Simple Git client for R Jared Lander's talk: GPU Computing in R Megan Robertson's talk: Creating Production-Level Data Science Code Dungeons & Dragons alignment history on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons) Afton Coombs' previous Twitch stream submitting {ggalignment} to CRAN!

Oct 13, 202127 min

Issue 2021-W40 Highlights

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Parameterized reports in RMarkdown with Plumber, an updated history of the pipe operator in R, and creating data from an image with reticulate Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) The Power of Parameterized Reports With Plumber Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The (updated) history of the pipe operator in R Creating a Dataset from an Image in R Markdown using reticulate Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W40

Oct 6, 202122 min

Issue 2021-W39 Highlights

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Data visualization accessibility, curating for R-Ladies, and a soccer data pipeline. Plus an annoucement on my goals for the future of the podcast. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) Resources for Data Viz Accessibility Curating for @WeAreRLadies on Twitter Creating a data pipeline with Github Actions & the {googledrive} package for the Canadian Premier League soccer data initiative! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W39 Supplement Resources Revealing Room for Improvement in Accessibility within a Social Media Data Visualization Learning Community Why Accessibility is at the Heart of Data Visualization Growing into the R community Become a part of the R-Weekly Highlights podcast! I am looking for members of the community to join me in sharing their perspectives on the highlighted resources in future podcast episodes! If you are interested in learning more and possibly joining my efforts, please get in touch via my Twitter account (@theRcast) or via email: theRcast (at) gmail.com

Sep 30, 202125 min

Issue 2021-W38 Highlights

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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

Sep 22, 202112 min

Issue 2021-W37 Highlights

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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 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MA_WT7IXL0 Supplement resources https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2021-09-10-setting-up-the-artfulbot/ {rprojroot}: Finding files in project subdirectories

Sep 15, 202111 min

Issue 2021-W36 Highlights

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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/ Geocomputation in R (authored by Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad, and Jannes Meunchow): https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/index.html https://github.com/emilyriederer/data-validation-demo https://rich-iannone.github.io/pointblank/

Sep 8, 202115 min

Issue 2021-W35 Highlights

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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/cboettig/codemeta https://codemeta.github.io/ Multiclass classification of dry beans using computer vision and machine learning techniques Thomas Mock's RMD Marvel GitHub repo: https://github.com/jthomasmock/penguin-project

Sep 1, 202115 min

Issue 2021-W34 Highlights

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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 notestar notebook system buit upon the {targets} package. {eulerr}: Area-proportional Euler and Venn diagrams with ellipses SLICED season 1 YouTube playlist SLICED web site Practical AI Episode 144

Aug 24, 202116 min

Issue 2021-W33 Highlights

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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

Aug 17, 20219 min

Issue 2021-W32 Highlights

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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 Mostipak's Twitter thread: Stumbling blocks encountered with learning Shiny Jacqueline Nolis: I made an entier e-commerce platform on Shiny https://youtu.be/tTgRhJ6lb4w https://www.rocker-project.org My R development template repository: https://github.com/rpodcast/r_dev_projects

Aug 10, 202117 min

Issue 2021-W31 Highlights

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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 and plots Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W31 Supplement resources: Friction Logs: The Key to Unlocking Product Growth MS-OOXML: A pseudo-standard that pretends to be open The officer package: Making PowerPoint slides from R (my presentation from the Advanced R Markdown Workshop)

Aug 4, 202115 min

Issue 2021-W30 Highlights

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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} - alternate facets for ggplot2 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W30 Supplement resources: Recording of my issue curation livestream! Effective communication between Shiny modules {targets} 0.6.0 NEWS Chapter 3 - Target Markdown Target Markdown template format {targets} resources from upcoming R in Medicine workshop

Jul 27, 202119 min

Issue 2021-W29 Highlights

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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/2021-W29

Jul 20, 202112 min

Issue 2021-W28 Highlights

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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 Batool's presentation from UseR! 2021: Make Your Computational Analysis Citable

Jul 13, 20219 min

Issue 2021-W27 Highlights

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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

Jul 7, 202112 min

Issue 2021-W26 Highlights

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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 Resources https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/03/04/r-universe-buildsystem/ https://ropensci.org/commcalls/may2021-r-universe/

Jun 29, 202111 min

Issue 2021-W25 Highlights

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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 at rweekly.org/2021-W25 Supplemental Resources {epidemia} package documentation A COVID-19 Model for Local Authorities of the United Kingdom How epidemiology has shaped the COVID pandemic

Jun 23, 202112 min

Issue 2021-W24 Highlights

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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 Nick Strayer returns to share how he arrived to RStudio and motivations behind the new Shiny App Stories. Shiny in Production: Database Transactions Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W24

Jun 15, 202113 min

Issue 2021-W23 Highlights

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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

Jun 8, 202111 min

Issue 2021-W22 Highlights

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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.com/d-score/childdevdata https://github.com/forestry-labs/Rforestry https://github.com/tsuda16k/materialmodifier

Jun 1, 20218 min

Issue 2021-W21 Highlights

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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 mirror of the SVN R code repository for version 4.1.0

May 26, 202115 min

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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 labs into using the tidymodels set of packages. TidyX Episode 59: MLB Pitch Classification - Class Imbalance and Model Evaluation Encrypt and host a knitted R Markdown file Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W20 Supplemental Resources An Introduction to Statistical Learning and The Elements of Statistical Learning official sites with links to download each. TidyX MLB Pitch Classification playlist My appearance on TidyX episode 32 {encryptedRmd}: Password protected markdown HTML reports in R using libsodium libsodium encryption library

May 18, 202111 min

Issue 2021-W19 Highlights

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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 Series Episode 20: Outstanding User Interfaces with David Granjon Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W19

May 11, 202110 min

Issue 2021-W18 Highlights

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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

May 4, 20218 min

Issue 2021-W17 Highlights

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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 at rweekly.org/2021-W17 Supplemental Resources https://news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-turns-20-aims-reach-035212015.html https://github.com/yihui/knitr/releases/tag/v1.32 https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pkglite/index.html https://flujoo.github.io/gm/

Apr 27, 202112 min

Issue 2021-W16 Highlights

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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 Software Peer Review {dataspice} package peer review GH isssue {brochure}: Natively multipage Shiny apps What Process Mining Is, and Why Companies Should Do It {bupaR}: Business process analysis in R

Apr 20, 202110 min

Issue 2021-W15 Highlights

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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' is not subsettable High Performance and Parallel Computing CRAN task view Future: Simple Async, Parallel & Distributed Processing in R rstudio::conf 2020 resources tidyquery: Query R data frames with SQL

Apr 13, 202113 min

Issue 2021-W14 Highlights

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{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 vignette

Apr 5, 20219 min

Issue 2021-W13 Highlights

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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 issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W13 Supplemental Resources DataViz History Series: Edward Tufte, Charles Minard, Napoleon and the Russian Campaign of 1812 - Part 2 and Part 5 {ggplot2} Wizardry recorded talk from UseR Oslo meetup (25 March 2021) Introducing googleCouldRunnner - serverless R on Google Could Platform

Mar 30, 202110 min

Issue 2021-W12 Highlights

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{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 episode 27: Get the {gt} Tables! R-Weekly Highlights Episode 24: {blogdown} v1.0, announcing {pagedreport}, and the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide R-Weekly Highlights episode 5: Guidelines for creating better tables, a controlled vocabulary to name data frame columns, and exploring reactive in Shiny applications Bruno Rodrigues' YouTube Channel

Mar 23, 202112 min

Issue 2021-W11 Highlights

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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 Automating COVID-19 PDF scraping 1littlecoder YouTube channel Shiny Developer Series

Mar 16, 202111 min

Issue 2021-W10 Highlights

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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 Tidy Evaluation by Reimplementing dplyr (Government & Public Sector R Conference) Programming with dplyr vignette

Mar 9, 202110 min