R Weekly 2022-W38 Variable labels, packaging plumber, web scraping

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

Highlight

Insights

R in the Real World

R in Organizations

Sequential benchmarking results of EFS (executed on r5n.xlarge and t3.xlarge instances) and NFS (executed on a t3.xlarge instance)

R in Academia

Resources

Quarto Metropolis theme

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

GitHub or Bitbucket

severance R package

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

Videos and Podcasts

Gist & Cookbook

Tutorials

Venn Diagram with ggplot2

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Update from the R Contribution Working Group September meeting:

We discussed ideas to work on in 2022/2023. Initially we will be working on:

  • A translation hackathon in partnership with https://latin-r.com/, focusing on Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Register for LatinR for free to join in, or join the channel on the LatinR Slack to help organize.
  • Monthly “Office Hours” for people new to contributing to drop in for help getting started or to discuss contributions in progress.
  • A retrospective of the Bug BBQ
  • A code of conduct for standalone RCWG events See the minutes for more detail.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

Grants & Funding

  • R Consortium ISC Call for Proposals - Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) grants for low-to-medium risk projects with a focused scope and likely to have a broad impact on the R Community. Deadline 2022-10-01.

Datasets

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Calls for Participation

rtistry

Quotes of the Week