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R Weekly Highlights
By Eric NantzScience
R Weekly Highlights episodes
- Issue 2021-W43 Highlights
A tutorial on getting started with aRtistry, simulating the Squid Game bridge scene, and a video demonstration of installing Shiny server on AWS.
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin)
- Simulating the Squid Game Bridge Scene
- Thinking outside the grid - A "bare bones" introduction to Rtistry concepts in R using ggplot
- TBD, but likely a Shiny server video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4T0qfqY7k
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W43
Supplement Resources
- "Hosting Data Apps" Blog by Analythium
- Meghan Harris' website, The Tidy Trekker
31 min - Issue 2021-W42 Highlights
A major announcement for R developers interested in type safety, thoughts on using Visual Studio Code from the perspective of a long-time RStudio user, and the adventures of filling regions between lines with ggplot2.
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
- Introducing rpp: The long-term goal of the organisation is to add static type checking and other features to R, with zero cost at run time
- How not to be lost with VSCode when coming from RStudio?
- Fill the region between two lines in ggplot2
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W42
Supplement Resources
- Type safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety
- Eric's R development repository: https://github.com/rpodcast/r_dev_projects
- Visual Studio Code R extension: https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R
Looking to provide feedback on this episode and the podcast in general? Feel free to get in touch with Mike (@mike_ketchbrook) or Eric (@theRcast) on Twitter!
31 min - Issue 2021-W41 Highlights
Using the helpers from usethis for pull request workflows, 2021 New York R conference videos now available, and the origins of the newly released ggalignment package for D&D inspired alignments. Plus, a new era of the podcast begins with our new co-host Mike Thomas!
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast)
- Welcome our brand new co-host Mike Thomas! (@mike_ketchbrook)
- Pull Request Flow with usethis
- 2021 New York R Conference Videos
- {ggalignment} 1.0.0: Plots 'D&D'-Style Alignment Charts
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W41
Supplement Resources
- {gert}: Simple Git client for R
- Jared Lander's talk: GPU Computing in R
- Megan Robertson's talk: Creating Production-Level Data Science Code
- Dungeons & Dragons alignment history on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
- Afton Coombs' previous Twitch stream submitting {ggalignment} to CRAN!
28 min - Issue 2021-W40 Highlights
Parameterized reports in RMarkdown with Plumber, an updated history of the pipe operator in R, and creating data from an image with reticulate
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
- The Power of Parameterized Reports With Plumber
- Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The (updated) history of the pipe operator in R
- Creating a Dataset from an Image in R Markdown using reticulate
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W40
23 min - Issue 2021-W39 Highlights
Data visualization accessibility, curating for R-Ladies, and a soccer data pipeline. Plus an annoucement on my goals for the future of the podcast.
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664)
- Resources for Data Viz Accessibility
- Curating for @WeAreRLadies on Twitter
- Creating a data pipeline with Github Actions & the {googledrive} package for the Canadian Premier League soccer data initiative!
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W39
Supplement Resources
- Revealing Room for Improvement in Accessibility within a Social Media Data Visualization Learning Community
- Why Accessibility is at the Heart of Data Visualization
- Growing into the R community
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26 min - Issue 2021-W38 Highlights
Eras of MTV and system commands
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
- Finding the Eras of MTV's The Challenge Through Clustering
- How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W38
13 min - Issue 2021-W37 Highlights
Techniques for creating generative art in R, time tracking with clockify, and the four pipes of magrittr
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
- Art, jasmines, and the water colours
- {clockify} Time Tracking from R
- The Four Pipes of magrittr
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W37
- View the entire process of recording this episode from the livestream recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MA_WT7IXL0
Supplement resources
- https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2021-09-10-setting-up-the-artfulbot/
- {rprojroot}: Finding files in project subdirectories
12 min - Issue 2021-W36 Highlights
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.robinlovelace.net/index.html
- https://github.com/emilyriederer/data-validation-demo
- https://rich-iannone.github.io/pointblank/
16 min - Issue 2021-W35 Highlights
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 learning techniques
- Thomas Mock's RMD Marvel GitHub repo: https://github.com/jthomasmock/penguin-project
16 min - Issue 2021-W34 Highlights
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 diagrams with ellipses
- SLICED season 1 YouTube playlist
- SLICED web site
- Practical AI Episode 144
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