R Weekly Highlights Eric Nantz

Using the trifecta of map, walk, and pivot for data processing, obtaining quotes from the Friends characters in R, and putting the spolight on Shiny user interfaces in the Shiny Dev Series.


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This week's curator: Hey, it's me, Eric! (@theRcast)
Map, Walk, Pivot
Introducing {centralperk}: Get quotes from the main characters of the TV show 'Friends'
Shiny Developer Series Episode 20: Outstanding User Interfaces with David Granjon
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W19

A call to action for testing R 4.1, a practical guide to unit tests, and a tutorial on creating pizza charts with football data


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This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
R Can Use Your Help: Testing R Before Release
Writing unit tests in R
Soccer Percentile Radars/Pizza's Tutorial
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W18

Exploring wikidata with the {tidywikidatar} package, accessibility improvements in {knitr}, and the top 40 new CRAN packages for March.


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This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq (@batool664)
What does Wikidata know about members of the European Parliament?
New in knitr: Improved accessibility with image alt text
March 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W17


Supplemental Resources


https://news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-turns-20-aims-reach-035212015.html
https://github.com/yihui/knitr/releases/tag/v1.32
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pkglite/index.html
https://flujoo.github.io/gm/

The latest news from rOpenSci, creating ggplot2 postcards with ggirl, and an introduction to process mining in R


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This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
rOpenSci News Digest, April 2021
{ggirl} 1.0.1: An R package that lets you make ggplots in real life
Process Mining in 10 minutes with R
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W16


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rOpenSci Software Peer Review
{dataspice} package peer review GH isssue
{brochure}: Natively multipage Shiny apps
What Process Mining Is, and Why Companies Should Do It
{bupaR}: Business process analysis in R

reprex 2.0, using Kubernetes and the future package, and SQL in RMarkdown


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This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
reprex 2.0.0
Using Kubernetes and the Future Package to Easily Parallelize R in the Cloud
sql-in-rmarkdown
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W15


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Jenny Bryan's rstudio::conf 2020 keynote materials: Object of type 'closure' is not subsettable
High Performance and Parallel Computing CRAN task view
Future: Simple Async, Parallel & Distributed Processing in R rstudio::conf 2020 resources
tidyquery: Query R data frames with SQL

{workflowsets} with tidy models, exploring other {ggplot2} goems, and top 10 R errors


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This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman)
workflowsets 0.0.1
Exploring Other ggplot2 Geoms
The top 10 R errors, the 7th one will surprise you
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W14


Supplemental Resources



Screening many models chapter from Tidy Modeling with R
Extending ggplot2 vignette