R Weekly Highlights

By Eric Nantz

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January 05, 2021Issue 2021-W01 Highlights
Data Science course in a box, up and running with blogdown, and voting visualization in Switzerland
Episode Links
This week's curator: Wolfram King
Data Science Course in a Box - The core content of the course focuses on data acquisition and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, inference, modelling, and effective communication of results.
Up & running with blogdown in 2021
A version of the famous visualization - Land doesn't vote, people do
Supplemental Resources
A Fresh Look at Introductory Data Science
The R-Podcast Episode 31: Data Science Education with R
‘For responsible businesses – protecting human rights and the environment’ initiative background
...more
11min
December 28, 2020Issue 2020-52 Highlights
R Markdown family updates & table contest results
Episode Links
This week's curator: Wolfram King
Winners of the 2020 RStudio Table Contest
Latest News from the R Markdown Family
Supplemental Resources
Editable DataTables in R Shiny using SQL
...more
6min
December 21, 2020Issue 2020-51 Highlights
Targetopia, extracting JSON data, and ggrepel update
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
The targetopia: An R package ecosystem for democratized reproducible pipelines at scale
Extracting JSON data from websites and public APIs with R
{ggrepel}: Automatically Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels with ggplot2.
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-51
Supplement resources
{targets} statement of need
{stantargets}
{ggrepel} 0.9.0 changelog
...more
8min
December 14, 2020Issue 2020-50 Highlights
Underrated tidyverse functions, bullet chart variants, and AWS Lambda with R
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast)
Underrated Tidyverse Functions
Bullet Chart Variants in R
R on AWS Lambda with containers
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-50
...more
9min
December 07, 2020Issue 2020-49 Highlights
Extended ggplot2 tutorial, static code analysis, and a customized visual CV with ggplot2
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
An extended version of "A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting"
A brief introduction to the basics of R's static code analysis
Creation of a custom visual CV by ggplot hacking
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-49
...more
8min
December 01, 2020Issue 2020-48 Highlights
About this episode
Your first R package, magrittr 2.0, and Engineering Shiny use case
Episode Links
This week's curator: Maelle Salmon (@ma_salmon)
Your first R package in 1 hour
magrittr 2.0 is here!
Use case from "Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps" - Building an App, from Start to Finish
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-48
Supplement Resources
Recording of Shannon's workshop on YouTube: youtu.be/xcXzaEmZ-m4
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9min
November 24, 2020Issue 2020-47 Highlights
About this episode
Testthat utility belt, NHS-R conference, and application of Bayesian networks to sports injury prediction
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conference -- so much great content, so little time to catch it all...
Helper code and files for your testthat tests
Bayesian networks and sports injuries with {bnlearn}
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-47
Supplement Resources
https://nhsrcommunity.com/blog/nhs-meets-r/
...more
8min
November 16, 2020Issue 2020-46 Highlights
About this episode
Open-access tools to find conronaviruses, developing inside containers, and error handling
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
Using Open-Access Tools (rentrez, taxize) to Find Coronaviruses, Their Genetic Sequences, and Their Hosts
How to develop inside a Docker container to ease collaboration?
YAPOEH! (Yet another post on error handling)
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-46
...more
8min
November 10, 2020Issue 2020-45 Highlights
About this episode
Single source publishing, rainbow parentheses, and VisiumExperiment
Episode Links
This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman)
Single-source publishing for R users
RStudio 1.4 Preview: Rainbow Parentheses
Using VisiumExperiment at spatialLIBD package
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-45
Supplement Links
https://github.com/maelle/bspagedjs
https://bookdown.org/
...more
8min
November 02, 2020Issue 2020-44 Highlights
About this episode
{emphatic} highlighting, analyzing open political data, and helping data-science learners
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr)
{emphatic}: Augments the output of data.frames and matrices in R by adding user-defined ANSI highlighting.
A guide to accessing & analyzing open source American political data using R
Let’s stop doubly-screwing data science learners
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-44
Supplement Links
{pillar} format columns with colour
{crayon} R package for colored terminal output
ANSI escape codes
Jason Timm's blog
The {drake} post
The {drake} R package user manual
...more
7min

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