R Weekly 2024-W07 verbosity, consortium grants, resmush

12 Feb 2024

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

Highlight

• Please Shut Up! Verbosity Control in Packages

• R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grant Program Accepting Proposals starting March 1st!

• Optimize your images with R and reSmush.it

Insights

• Please Shut Up! Verbosity Control in Packages

• Improving with R: Kylie Bemis Unveils Enhanced Signal Processing with Matter 2.4 Upgrade

• How Rstudio hidden objects made me think I’m an impostor

Resources

• Big Book of R at 400 (New milestone!)

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {dlookr} 0.6.3: Tools for Data Diagnosis, Exploration, Transformation

• {zoomerjoin} 0.1.4: Superlatively Fast Fuzzy Joins

• {censored} 0.3.0: ‘parsnip’ Engines for Survival Models

• {One4All} 0.3: Validate, Share, and Download Data

Updated Packages

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• {ggDoE} 0.8: Modern Graphs for Design of Experiments with ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {rnaturalearthdata} 1.0.0: World Vector Map Data from Natural Earth Used in ‘rnaturalearth’ - diffify

• {box} 1.2.0: Write Reusable, Composable and Modular R Code - diffify

• {ggthemes} 5.1.0: Extra Themes, Scales and Geoms for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast ß

• How to publish Quarto projects using GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions

• 20 minutes to Predict MLB HOF Pitchers - Class of 2024: TidyX Episode 172

Shiny Apps

• {fitODBODRshiny} 1.0.0: ‘Shiny’ Application for R Package ‘fitODBOD’

Tutorials

• Getting marine polygon maps in R

• new programming with data.table

• more .I in data.table

• Tweedie regression, or Poisson-Gamma regressions ?

• Optimize your images with R and reSmush.it

• Making Pretty PDFs with Typst (and Quarto)

• Unveiling Roman Amphitheaters with a ggplot2 violin plot

• Demystifying Dates: Finding the Day of the Week in R with lubridate

• 3MW (Getting weather data via an API with R)

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• Events at Jumping Rivers 2024

• (February 13th, 2024) Training Ground Guru: R Masterclass with Harsh Krishna

• (February 21, 2024) Forecasting with Generalised Additive Models (GAMs) in R

• (March 6, 2024) Master Tidy Finance & Access Financial Data with Expert Christoph Scheuch

Grants & Funding

• R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grant Program Accepting Proposals starting March 1st!

Jobs

💼 Explore Jobs & Gigs Board on RStudio Community 💼

Quotes of the Week

#rstats dplyr::if_else() FTW pic.twitter.com/kzo4MBCgrW

— Antoine Fabri (@antoine_fabri) February 10, 2024

When appending (stacking) datasets, variable names and types must be consistent across datasets. It's helpful to check these assumptions before appending your files. The #rstats janitor::compared_df_cols() is great for this. pic.twitter.com/3UgPf2Nz8j

— Crystal Lewis (@Cghlewis) February 8, 2024