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R Weekly Highlights
By Eric NantzScience
R Weekly Highlights episodes
- Issue 2021-W03 Highlights
Data Science as an atomic habit, Japan soccer league season review, Fantasy football scheduling, and UseR! 2021 call for tutorials
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Wolfram King
- Data science as an atomic habit
- J.League Soccer 2020 Season Review with R!
- Fantasy Football and the Classical Scheduling Problem
- UseR! 2021: Call for Tutorials
Supplemental Resources
- Book Review: Atomic Habits
- ffsched - R package for simulating schedules and standings for fantasy football
- UseR! 2020 Tutorials Playlist
- Lifelong Learning with R Weekly (Wolfram Qin) lightning talk at rstudio::global!
- Session 1: 2021-01-21 10:21 PM - 10:26 PM EST / 2021-01-22 03:21 AM - 03:26 AM UTC
- Session 2: 2021-01-22 10:21 AM - 10:26 AM EST / 2021-01-22 03:21 PM- 03:26 PM UTC
10 min - Issue 2021-W02 Highlights
Plots with GitHub Actions, and major updates to {renv} and {fastai}
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq
- Automatic Rendering of a Plot with GitHub Actions
- {renv} 0.12.5: Project Environments
- {fastai} 2.0.2: Interface to fastai
Supplemental Resources
- GitHub Actions: built by you, run by us
- R-Podcast Episode 32: RStudio's Big Move and Kevin Ushey
- Fully containerized R dev environment with Docker, RStudio, and VS-Code
- What does it mean to freeze or unfreeze a model?
8 min - Issue 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
11 min - Issue 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
6 min - Issue 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
8 min - Issue 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
9 min - Issue 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
8 min - Issue 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
9 min - Issue 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/
8 min - Issue 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
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