R Weekly Highlights

Eric Nantz
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Dec 7, 2020 • 8min

Issue 2020-49 Highlights

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
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Dec 1, 2020 • 8min

Issue 2020-48 Highlights

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
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Nov 24, 2020 • 8min

Issue 2020-47 Highlights

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/
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Nov 16, 2020 • 7min

Issue 2020-46 Highlights

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
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Nov 10, 2020 • 7min

Issue 2020-45 Highlights

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/
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Nov 2, 2020 • 6min

Issue 2020-44 Highlights

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
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Oct 26, 2020 • 6min

Issue 2020-43 Highlights

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
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Oct 19, 2020 • 7min

Issue 2020-42 Highlights

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
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Oct 12, 2020 • 8min

Issue 2020-41 Highlights

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
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Oct 5, 2020 • 7min

Issue 2020-40 Highlights

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

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