R Weekly Highlights

Design principles for data analysis, unraveling pipeline analyses with {Unravel}, and visualizing simulated environmental changes in western Canada with Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz Design Principles for Data Analysis {Unravel} - A fluent code explorer for R Case Study: Simulating Environment Change Agents on Species in Canada's Western Boreal Forests Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W40 Supplement Resources Casual Inference Podcast: https://casualinfer.libsyn.com Not So Standard Deviations Podcast: https://nssdeviations.com/ Designing for Analytics Podcast: https://designingforanalytics.com/experiencing-data-podcast/ Elements and Principles for Characterizing Variation between Data Analyses (preprint) https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07639 Stephanie Hicks' thread on the preprint: https://twitter.com/stephaniehicks/status/1108462768099856384 Lucy D'Agostino McGowan's presentation at JSM 2022: https://www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/asa_joint_statistical_meeting_2022 Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2515245917747646 Unravel presentation at UIST 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ77e39XVEs ShinyWBI https://wbi-nwt.analythium.app/apps/nwt/

A collection of highlights to give your future developer self a helping hand: Deploying a Flexdashboard using GitHub Pages and Docker, an illustrated guide showcasing the perks of Git and GitHub for version control, and how the logger package integrates smoothly with plumber for an API package. Additional note: The recording of this episode was met with unfortunate technical glitches. We apologize and promise the quality will be back to normal next time! Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) Deploy Flexdashboard on Github Pages with Github Actions and Docker GitHub - The Perks of Collaboration and Version Control API as a package: Logging Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W39 Supplement Resources Submitting Your Work to the Table Contest | 2022 Table Contest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgYgaYKpLO0 Let's Create a Quarto Doc & Share it on Quarto.Pub | Table Contest 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-AQ4yAQXy0

A few major benefits of adopting variable labels for R data frames, wrapping a plumber API into a package with mariobox, and getting started with obtaining new data in R via APIs and web scraping. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr) The case for variable labels in R {mariobox} 0.0.0.9000: A framework for packaging {plumber} APIs APIs and web scraping Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W38 Supplement Resources MLOps with vetiver in Python & R: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQANK13-k4

A collection of highlights powered by mathematics, statistics, and a little bit of R magic: Mapping wind data with R, calculating the expected statistic in football, and how the vetiver package fits in an ML-Ops production flow using Docker and Plumber. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) Mapping wind data with R Calculating and comparing expected points from different expected goals sources (soccer) Use Docker to deploy a model for #TidyTuesday LEGO sets Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W37 Supplement Resources Julia Silge's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JuliaSilge

Using base R to decrypt an Australian coin's hidden messages, the Palmer Penguins data set achieves another milestone, and visualizing multiple statistcal properties with faded raincloud plots. Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) Australian Signals Directorate 50c Coin Decryption Palmer Archipelago Penguins Data in the palmerpenguins R Package - An Alternative to Anderson’s Irises Efficient data visualization with faded raincloud plots Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W36 Supplement Resources Using distill template with knitr::read_chunk https://twitter.com/apreshill/status/1565752119751237638 Manuscript on raincloud plots: https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-63/v2 {gghalves}: https://erocoar.github.io/gghalves/ {ggp0}: https://docs.r4photobiology.info/ggpp/

Using hierarchical forecasting to explore subway fare recovery, and how you can learn more about {gtsummary} to create your next publication-quality table within R. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) Exploring Types of Subway Fares with Hierarchical Forecasting Clinical Reporting with {gtsummary} by Daniel D. Sjoberg Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W35 Supplement Resources R-Podcast Episode 27: Get the {gt} Tables! https://r-podcast.org/027-rstudioconf-tables

The rstudio::conf(2022) presentation recordings are now available for viewing, and we learn about the unique development journey of the new CRAN release of the countdown package. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar (@parsam_) Talk recordings and workshop materials from rstudio::conf(2022) The Past and Future of Shiny - Joe Cheng - rstudio::conf(2022) countdown v0.4.0 - Now on CRAN! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W34

Avoid repeating yourself by using dplyr's across function, going inside the process of creating a custom theme in ggplot2, and a few keyboard-centric tricks to manage your RStudio pane viewing. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) Using across() to create multiple columns Pretty ggplots with custom themes, ggtext, and ggh4x Window and Pane Management Tricks for RStudio and your OS Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W33 Supplement Resources {ggh4x}: https://teunbrand.github.io/ggh4x/index.html

A wealth of R content from the UseR! 2022 conference is now available, focusing on accessibility in the diffify tool, and a great recap of rstudio::conf(2022) from TidyX. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) useR2022 recordings are now on the conference YouTube channel Theming diffify for accessibility: Part 2 RStudio::Conf 2022 Recap Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W32 Supplement Resources UseR! 2022 Program: https://user2022.r-project.org/program/overview/ Fundamentals of Data Visualization: https://clauswilke.com/dataviz

RStudio re-brands as Posit, the shinytest2 package continues to make waves in the Shiny community, and more Quarto tips to boost your workflow. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) RStudio rebrands as Posit {shinytest2}: For testing Shiny apps. (slides) One Quarto tip a day Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W31 Supplement Resources JJ Allaire and Jeremy Howard 2-way AMA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxVVSxcjNQs Tom Mock's Welcome to Quarto online event (August 9, 2023): https://www.addevent.com/event/Eh13574863