R Weekly 2023-W27 Targets validation workflow, %dofuture%, gmailr 2.0.0

03 Jul 2023

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

Highlight

• Targets validation workflow

• %dofuture% - a Better foreach() Parallelization Operator than %dopar%

• gmailr 2.0.0

Insights

• How to self-publish a technical book on Leanpub and Amazon using Quarto

• %dofuture% - a Better foreach() Parallelization Operator than %dopar%

• Lessons Learned From Running R in Production

• Symbolic Differentiation in a Few Lines of Code

• MPI from R - Part One - The Basics

R in the Real World

• May 2023: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

• Data Scientists & Data Professionals at New York R Conference

Resources

• r-help: R manual pages for previous versions of R from 0.60 onwards

• gmailr 2.0.0

• A new function to plot convergence diagnostics from lme4::allFit()

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {countSTAR} 1.0.2: Flexible Modeling of Count Data
• {corrViz} 0.1.0: Visualise Correlations
• {restatis} 0.1.0: Web API Client for the German Federal Statistical Office Database
• {respR} 2.3.1: Import, Process, Analyse, and Calculate Rates from Respirometry Data
• {move2} 0.2.0: Processing and Analysing Animal Trajectories
• {hfhub} 0.1.0: Hugging Face Hub Interface
• {admiralvaccine} 0.1.0: Vaccine Extension Package for ADaM in ‘R’ Asset Library
• {tree3d} 0.1.2: 3D Tree Models
• {topChef} 0.1.0: Top Chef Data

GitHub or Bitbucket

ggbrick

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• The new family of text_*() functions in {gt} 0.9.0

• {V8} 4.3.1: Embedded JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine for R - diffify
• {haven} 2.5.2: Import and Export ‘SPSS’, ‘Stata’ and ‘SAS’ Files - diffify
• {polite} 0.1.3: Be Nice on the Web - diffify
• {ggblanket} 3.0.0: Simplify ‘ggplot2’ Visualisation - diffify
• {openxlsx2} 0.7.1: Read, Write and Edit ‘xlsx’ Files - diffify
• {gmailr} 2.0.0: Access the ‘Gmail’ ‘RESTful’ API - diffify
• {prettifyAddins} 2.6.0: ‘RStudio’ Addins to Prettify ‘JavaScript’, ‘C++’, ‘Python’, and More - diffify
• {jsonlite} 1.8.7: A Simple and Robust JSON Parser and Generator for R - diffify
• {downlit} 0.4.3: Syntax Highlighting and Automatic Linking - diffify
• {odbc} 1.3.5: Connect to ODBC Compatible Databases (using the DBI Interface) - diffify
• {fusen} 0.5.1: Build a Package from Rmarkdown Files - diffify
• {rtoot} 0.3.2: Collecting and Analyzing Mastodon Data - diffify
• {ssh} 0.8.3: Secure Shell (SSH) Client for R - diffify
• {riskmetric} 0.2.2: Risk Metrics to Evaluating R Packages - diffify
• {tern} 0.8.4: Create Common TLGs Used in Clinical Trials - diffify
• {deps} 0.2.0: Dependency Management with ‘roxygen’-Style Comments - diffify
• {webshot} 0.5.5: Take Screenshots of Web Pages - diffify
• {targets} 1.2.0: Dynamic Function-Oriented ‘Make’-Like Declarative Pipelines - diffify
• {digest} 0.6.32: Create Compact Hash Digests of R Objects - diffify
• {crew} 0.3.0: A Distributed Worker Launcher Framework - diffify
• {pkgbuild} 1.4.2: Find Tools Needed to Build R Packages - diffify
• {askgpt} 0.1.2: Asking GPT About R Stuff - diffify
• {mirai} 0.9.0: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Shiny Apps with Hugging Face: A Practical Guide

• How to generate images with OpenAI’s DALL-E models using R - openai R package approach

Shiny Apps

Shiny on webR demo

R Internationally

• R for Predictive Modeling and Data Visualization in Turkey

Tutorials

• Migrating from MRAN to Posit Package Manager

• ggplotting power curves from simr package

• Table joins with conditional “fuzzy” string matching in R

• The ave() Function in R

• Exploring Rolling Correlation with the rollapply Function: A Powerful Tool for Analyzing Time-Series Data

• How to Use a Windows .bat File to Execute an R Script

• Simplifying File Management in R: Introducing file.rename()

• Targets validation workflow

• Using a Data Dictionary to Recode Columns with dplyr

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• Registration for posit::conf(2023)’s virtual experience is now open

• Register for R/Pharma at posit::conf(2023)

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• New York R Conference - July 13-14, 2023

• posit::conf(2023) (formerly rstudio::conf) - September 17-20, 2023

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

rtistry

On the data visualisation 📊 to generative art 🎨 spectrum, I think this one sits right in the middle!

Can you guess what the underlying data is?#RStats #DataViz #Rtistry #GenArtClub pic.twitter.com/NIYaiADykO

— Nicola Rennie | @[email protected] (@nrennie35) June 29, 2023

Today's artwork generated with #rstats and #ggplot2: pic.twitter.com/6XAzubNexp

— aRtsy package (@aRtsy_package) July 2, 2023

#runeverystreet in #WestVan (and #NorthVan) ... today was Caulfield neighborhood in West Vancouver. Plotted using #Strava data in #Rstats using the amazing #rayshader and #rayvista packages! pic.twitter.com/edddPyns87

— Michael Hainke (@MichaelHainke) June 28, 2023

Quotes of the Week

A little while ago I teased a video of #webR running #rstats Shinylive apps entirely in the browser with #wasm. We're working on it, but for the moment I've setup a repo with some technical info about how this all works, targeted at brave JavaScript devs https://t.co/tzD2eNGoLH https://t.co/2UXY7YYYPm

— George Stagg (@gwstagg) June 30, 2023