R Weekly Highlights

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://towardsdatascience.com/how-linear-mixed-model-works-350950a82911 https://twitter.com/tjmahr/status/1365424619344318466

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 Short Notice: How to Get Your Materials Online with R Markdown Building a {distill} website} Shiny Developer Series Episode 1: Shiny Development Past and Future Shiny Developer Series Episode 5: shinysense and custom javascript visualizations

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::global 2021)

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 R-Podcast The new and improved R-Podcast site {pagedown}: Creating beautiful PDFs with R Markdown and CSS (rstudio::conf 2019) {pagedreport} gallery

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 - R package for simulating schedules and standings for fantasy football UseR! 2020 Tutorials Playlist Lifelong Learning with R Weekly (Wolfram Qin) lightning talk at rstudio::global! Session 1: 2021-01-21 10:21 PM - 10:26 PM EST / 2021-01-22 03:21 AM - 03:26 AM UTC Session 2: 2021-01-22 10:21 AM - 10:26 AM EST / 2021-01-22 03:21 PM- 03:26 PM UTC

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 environment with Docker, RStudio, and VS-Code What does it mean to freeze or unfreeze a model?

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 2021 A version of the famous visualization - Land doesn't vote, people do Supplemental Resources A Fresh Look at Introductory Data Science The R-Podcast Episode 31: Data Science Education with R ‘For responsible businesses – protecting human rights and the environment’ initiative background

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 resources {targets} statement of need {stantargets} {ggrepel} 0.9.0 changelog

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/2020-49

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's workshop on YouTube: youtu.be/xcXzaEmZ-m4

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 available at rweekly.org/2020-47 Supplement Resources https://nhsrcommunity.com/blog/nhs-meets-r/

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 issue available at rweekly.org/2020-46

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.org/

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 science learners Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-44 Supplement Links {pillar} format columns with colour {crayon} R package for colored terminal output ANSI escape codes Jason Timm's blog The {drake} post The {drake} R package user manual

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 {slider} - Sliding Window Functions https://inequality.media.mit.edu/ {sen2r} - Find, download, and process sentinel-2 data

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/2020-41 Supplement Links R Packages 2nd Edition R-package-devel mailing list Writing R Extensions rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide Maintaining an R Package - Community Call Summary Exploring missing values in naniar sortable widget and learnr demonstration Creating a New RWeekly Issue: Hands-on Demonstration

About this episode Visual markdown editing, stat layers in ggplot2, and learnr tutorials in a package Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) RStudio v1.4 Preview: Visual Markdown Editing How to deliver learnr tutorials in a package Demystifying stat_ layers in {ggplot2} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-40 Supplement Links Visual R Markdown documentation Introducing learnr Shiny Developer Series Episode 14 - Shining a Light on learnr Distill for R Markdown - Creating a Blog

About this episode A calendar right in your R console, accessibility tooling for Shiny, and shinydashboardPlus v2.0 Episode Links This week's curator: Maelle Salmon (@ma_salmon) A Calendar in Your R Console accessibility (a11y) tooling for shiny {shinydashboardPlus 2.0.0}: extensions for shinydashboard Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-39

About this episode Making learning to code friendlier with art, ggforce functions, and debugging in VSCode Episode Links It's a Bird, It's a Plane ... It's a ggforce function Making Learning to Code Friendlier with Art — An Interview with Dr. Allison Horst Introduction to debugging R in VSCode Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-38 This week's curator: Jon Calder @jonmcalder

About this episode Guidelines for creating better tables, a controlled vocabulary to name data frame columns, and exploring reactivity in Shiny applications. Episode Links 10+ Guidelines for Better Tables in R: Make tables people ACTUALLY want to read. Column Names as Contracts Episode 12: Barret Schloerke Part 1 (reactlog) Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-37

About this episode A stunning combination of physics and 3-D visualization, behind the curtain of package installation, and an alternative workflow for error handling in functions. Episode Links Plinko Statistics: Insights from the Bean Machine State of R packages in your library Handling errors using purrr's possibly() and safely() Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-36 The R-Weekly Patreon: www.patreon.com/rweekly

About this episode A substantial update to the magrittr package coming soon, creating visualizations in D3 from an R user's perspective, and a big book of R. Episode Links magrittr 2.0 is coming soon D3 to R to D3 Big Book of R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-35 Details on how to submit resources and becoming an editor on the RWeekly team: github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org

About this episode Choosing an operating system for R users, examining regression techniques, and inside the development of dittodb / generating data from truncated distributions Episode Links Best OS for R users Lines of best fit Generating data from a truncated distribution Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-34 Creating a new RWeekly issue demonstration: youtu.be/tnclyMsy638

About this episode Exploring comic book creation with the tidyverse and ggplot2, and updates to the showtext and shinycssloader packages on CRAN. Episode Links A visualization exploring types of comic transitions as described in Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics". {showtext} 0.9: Using Fonts More Easily in R Graphs {shinycssloaders} v1.0: You can now use your own image, plus 3 years' worth of new features! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-33

In this introduction episode, Eric Nantz shares an introduction to the RWeekly community project as well as the movitation for creating this brand new RWeekly Highlights podcast! Episode Links rweekly.org github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org