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.robinlove...
Sep 08, 2021•16 min
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 ...
Sep 01, 2021•16 min
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 diagra...
Aug 24, 2021•16 min
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, 2021•10 min
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-comme...
Aug 10, 2021•17 min
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 U...
Aug 04, 2021•16 min
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...
Jul 27, 2021•19 min
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, 2021•12 min
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, 2021•10 min
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 07, 2021•13 min
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/may...
Jun 29, 2021•11 min
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 Lo...
Jun 23, 2021•12 min
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. S...
Jun 15, 2021•13 min
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 08, 2021•12 min
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 01, 2021•8 min
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, 2021•16 min
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 Imbalanc...
May 18, 2021•11 min
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, 2021•11 min
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 04, 2021•9 min
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...
Apr 27, 2021•13 min
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 Wh...
Apr 20, 2021•10 min
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 &...
Apr 13, 2021•13 min
{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 05, 2021•10 min
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, ...
Mar 30, 2021•11 min
{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 {pagedrepo...
Mar 23, 2021•12 min
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, 2021•11 min
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 dp...
Mar 09, 2021•11 min
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/1365424619...
Mar 02, 2021•10 min
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}...
Feb 23, 2021•12 min
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...
Feb 16, 2021•9 min
