R Weekly Highlights Eric Nantz

Another adventure with incorporating R packages into a WebR application, annotating your fancy equations in a Quarto PDF document, and unleasing a Bayesian model on UFO sightings data.


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This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon)
Preloading your R packages in webR in an Express JS API
A guide to annotating equations in quarto documents
Using Stan to analyse global UFO sighting reports
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W37


Supplement Resources



WebR binary R package repository - https://repo.r-wasm.org/
How do I preload the R packages in a node app - https://github.com/r-wasm/webr/issues/260
Minutes from 2023-08-18 Pilot 4 R-Consortium R-Submissions working group meeting (sending a Shiny application built with containers and webR to FDA) - https://rconsortium.github.io/submissions-pilot4/minutes/2023-08-18/
ggannotate - Interactively annotate your ggplots https://github.com/MattCowgill/ggannotate
UFO sightings around the world - https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-06-25


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Kraid’s Campfire Ballad - Harmony of a Hunter - Sebastian Mårtensson feat. Kristin Björkebäck - https://harmony.shinesparkers.net/album/harmony-of-a-hunter
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A batch of R functions to level-up your development tasks, revisting a classic R inferno on object allocation, and a call for proposals to take R's infrastructure to new heights.


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This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (Twitter)
Three (four?) R functions I enjoyed this week
Pre-allocating vectors is for nerds
Grants For R Language Infrastructure Projects Available Now!
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W36


Supplement Resources



June Choe's comment on Mike Mahoney's post https://fosstodon.org/@yjunechoe/110975018204561319
10 years of rio
Shiny for R updates: tooltips, popovers, a new theme, and more


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The next generation of object-oriented programming in R arrives on CRAN, a novel use of R to automate R scripts and documents for Tidy Tuesday analyses, and a terrific presentation de-mystifying the world of web APIs in R.


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This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon)
{S7} 0.1.0: An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a Successor to S3 and S4
Creating template files with R
A Gradual Introduction to Web APIs and JSON
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W35


Supplement Resources



S7 - A new object-oriented system in R https://rconsortium.github.io/S7/
Name of the game (issue 262): https://github.com/RConsortium/OOP-WG/issues/262
TidyX Episode 109 - R Classes and Objects - Making an S3 Object Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9PGOx9Oqjo
Mike's boston R user group talk
Standard Notes (End-to-End Encrypted Notes App) https://standardnotes.com/
HedgeDoc https://hedgedoc.org/
fs - Provide cross platform file operations based on libuv https://fs.r-lib.org/
Room by Room Temperature Tracking (Jared Lander) https://www.jaredlander.com/2021/02/room-by-room-temperature-tracking/
Ted Laderas - A gRadual introduction to Web APIs and JSON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7KfdEsdpo
Open Call for rOpenSci Champions Program 2023 Applications (deadline September 4th, 2023) https://ropensci.org/champions/


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A few key practices for data preprocessing leveraging the tidyverse, more amazing wins with open source to process high-dimensional USDA geospatial data sets, and an infinitely fascinating look at how recursion and infinite data structures can be used in your R adventures.


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This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon)
Best Practices for Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
Analyzing new USDA data using open source tools
Taking from Infinite Sequences+ Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-WXX


Supplement Resources



janitor package by Sam Firke https://sfirke.github.io/janitor
CRAN task view on missing data https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/MissingData.html
Tidy modeling with R https://www.tmwr.org/


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Another excellent use case of Nix for solving R package installation woes, a practical dev journey of wrapping C code in an R package, and a guide for using the new refugees R package from UNHCR.


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This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon)
She issued install.packages() -- you won't believe what happened next!
Wrapping C Code in an R Package
How to use UNHCR’s {refugees} R package
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W33


Supplement Resources



R Packages Chapter on Data: https://r-pkgs.org/data.html


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Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon)
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How a novel blend of automation and the YouTube API formed a new R-Ladies meetup recording dashboard built entirely with R, the momentum of webR continues with a fantastic guide to create a serverless Shiny app, and a new challenger in the world of high-performance data manipulation libraries arrives.


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This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
Using flexdashboard to create a GitHub Actions-powered YouTube feed
Building Serverless Shiny Apps with webR: A Step-by-Step Guide
Cookbook Polars for R Cookbook to provide solutions to common tasks and problems in using Polars with R. A side-by-side comparison of polars, R base, dplyr, tidyr and data.table packages.
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W32


Supplement Resources



Tube Archivist - Your self-hosted YouTube media server https://www.tubearchivist.com
webR code extension for HTML Quarto documents https://github.com/coatless/quarto-webr
Into the webR-verse (Bob Rudis presentation at the 2023 New York R Conference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpwcTUmBDY
tidypolars - Provide the functionalities of Polars with the syntax of the Tidyverse https://www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com


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