R Weekly Highlights

Eric Nantz
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May 18, 2021 • 11min

Issue 2021-W20 Highlights

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
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May 11, 2021 • 11min

Issue 2021-W19 Highlights

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
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May 4, 2021 • 9min

Issue 2021-W18 Highlights

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
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Apr 27, 2021 • 13min

Issue 2021-W17 Highlights

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/
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Apr 20, 2021 • 10min

Issue 2021-W16 Highlights

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
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Apr 13, 2021 • 13min

Issue 2021-W15 Highlights

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
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Apr 5, 2021 • 10min

Issue 2021-W14 Highlights

{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
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Mar 30, 2021 • 11min

Issue 2021-W13 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 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
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Mar 23, 2021 • 12min

Issue 2021-W12 Highlights

{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
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Mar 16, 2021 • 11min

Issue 2021-W11 Highlights

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

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