R Weekly 2021-W25

21 Jun 2021

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This week’s release was curated by Robert Hickman, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• Tracking SARS-CoV-2 In England with {epidemia}

• Tagging the Scientific Abstracts with Wikidata Items

• Que haja luz: More light for torch!

Insights

• One Little Thing: Spin a Child Script via knitr::spin_child()

R in the Real World

• Tracking SARS-CoV-2 In England with {epidemia}

• R in Supply Chain Management: Meetup Q&A

• Will I get my Money back? Credit Scoring with OneR

• Omega Results and the 2021 Olympic Trials

• Using R to build predictions for UEFA Euro 2020

• Tagging the Scientific Abstracts with Wikidata Items

• Four (4) Different Ways to Calculate DCF Based ‘Equity Cash Flow (ECF)’ – Part 1 of 4

• Housing unaffordability hexmaps

• Fight the Future: Stock Forecasting with Prophet

R in Organizations

• Debunking the Myths of R vs. Python

Resources

• rstudio-themes - a collection of 211 user-made themes for RStudio, incl. direkt links and screenshots where available

• Que haja luz: More light for torch!

• Conversions between different spatial classes in R

• Server-side MathJax rendering with R?

• New R textbook for machine learning

• Principal components and penguins by @ellis2013nz

• What if the standard format to browse #rstats help was Rmd?

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• vdiffr 1.0.0

• reactablefmtr 1.0.0

• luz 0.1.0

• rayertex 0.2.3

• affinity 0.2.5

• rextendr 0.2.0

Updated Packages

• {ichimoku} 0.2.0: Visualization and Tools for Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Strategies

Videos and Podcasts

• TidyX Episode 63 Ellis Hughes and Patrick Ward lookaround with regex this week

Tutorials

• Bubble Chart in R-ggplot & Plotly

• Funnel Chart in R-Interactive Funnel Plot

• Remove rows that contain all NA or certain columns in R?

• Extract text from pdf in R and word Detection

• Estimating a risk difference (and confidence intervals) using logistic regression

• Reading Data From Excel Files (xls,xlsx,csv) into R-Quick Guide

• Combinations using expand.grid

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

• R user or R Developer? Panel Discussion at useR!2021

• Summer Conferences!

• Exciting upcoming workshops ahead!

• useR! Conference Agenda

Jobs

• Senior Teaching Associate in Quantitative Methods in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology

• Research Associate - Salt Lake Community College

• Data Science and Research Associate - Urban Institute

• Michigan Fitness Foundation

• Associate Information Management Officer - United Nations Volunteers

• Economic Data Analyst - USAID Data Services

• Solutions Engineer - Rstudio

• Data Scientist - Modern Fertility

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

them: #rstats or #python?
me :*laughs in sed and awk* pic.twitter.com/GsGDgmgHUN

— David Schoch (@schochastics) June 21, 2021

Render of the largest volcano in the solar system--Olypums Mons on Mars. About 2.5 times higher than everest. #Rstats #Rayshader #Mars pic.twitter.com/w3DNbMtaoI

— Jacob Benzaquen (@JBenzaquen42) June 16, 2021

#rose
library(tidyverse)
seq(-3,3,by=.01) %>%
expand.grid(x=., y=.) %>%
ggplot(aes(x=(1-x-sin(y^2)), y=(1+y-cos(x^2)))) +
geom_point(alpha=.05, shape=20, size=0)+
theme_void()+
coord_polar()#rtistry #rstats #Maths #generativeart pic.twitter.com/vAVeQU0K2o

— Antonio Sánchez Chinchón (@aschinchon) June 16, 2021