R Weekly Highlights

About this episode {emphatic} highlighting, analyzing open political data, and helping data-science learners Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/tonyelhabr)) {emphatic} (https://github.com/coolbutuseless/emphatic): Augments the output of data.frames and matrices in R by adding user-defined ANSI…

About this episode Rolling averages with {slider}, personal art map, and flood mapping Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain (https://twitter.com/MilesMcBain)) Rolling Averages with {slider} and Covid Data (https://www.njtierney.com/post/2020/10/20/roll-avg-covid/) Personal Art Map with R…

About this episode Climate animation, decomposition and smoothing with R and python, and a Raspberry Pi dashboard Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) Climate animation of maximum temperatures (https://dominicroye.github.io/en/2020/climate-animation-of-maximum-temperatures/) Decomposition and…

About this episode Topics in package development, contributing to ROpenSci, and shining a light on learnr Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast (https://twitter.com/thercast)) Picking and researching blog topics about R package development (https://blog.r-hub.io/2020/10/09/topic-research/) Hacktober? Any Month is a Good Month to…

About this episode Visual markdown editing, stat layers in ggplot2, and learnr tutorials in a package Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono)) RStudio v1.4 Preview: Visual Markdown Editing (https://blog.rstudio.com/2020/09/30/rstudio-v1-4-preview-visual-markdown-editing/) How to deliver…

About this episode A calendar right in your R console, accessibility tooling for Shiny, and shinydashboardPlus v2.0 Episode Links This week's curator: Maelle Salmon (@ma_salmon (https://twitter.com/ma_salmon)) A Calendar in Your R Console (https://www.garrickadenbuie.com/blog/r-console-calendar/) accessibility (a11y) tooling for shiny…

About this episode Making learning to code friendlier with art, ggforce functions, and debugging in VSCode Episode Links It's a Bird, It's a Plane ... It's a ggforce function (https://ihaddadenfodil.com/post/it-s-a-bird-it-s-a-plane-it-s-a-ggforce-function/) Making Learning to Code Friendlier with Art — An Interview with Dr. Allison Horst…

About this episode Guidelines for creating better tables, a controlled vocabulary to name data frame columns, and exploring reactivity in Shiny applications. Episode Links 10+ Guidelines for Better Tables in R: Make tables people ACTUALLY want to read. (https://themockup.blog/posts/2020-09-04-10-table-rules-in-r/) Column Names as Contracts…

About this episode A stunning combination of physics and 3-D visualization, behind the curtain of package installation, and an alternative workflow for error handling in functions. Episode Links Plinko Statistics: Insights from the Bean Machine (https://www.tylermw.com/plinko-statistics-insights-from-the-bean-machine/) State of R packages in your…

About this episode A substantial update to the magrittr package coming soon, creating visualizations in D3 from an R user's perspective, and a big book of R. Episode Links magrittr 2.0 is coming soon (https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2020/08/magrittr-2-0/) D3 to R to D3 (https://maya.rbind.io/post/2020/d3-to-r-to-d3/) Big Book of R…