R Weekly 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 (https://github.com/qinwf) Data science as an atomic habit (https://malco.io/2021/01/04/data-science-as-an-atomic-habit/) J.League Soccer 2020 Season Review with R!…

Plots with GitHub Actions, and major updates to {renv} and {fastai} Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq (https://twitter.com/batool664) Automatic Rendering of a Plot with GitHub Actions (https://amitlevinson.com/blog/automated-plot-with-github-actions) {renv} 0.12.5 (https://cran.r-project.org/package=renv): Project…

Data Science course in a box, up and running with blogdown, and voting visualization in Switzerland Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram King (https://github.com/qinwf) Data Science Course in a Box (https://datasciencebox.org/) - The core content of the course focuses on data acquisition and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data…

R Markdown family updates & table contest results Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram King (https://github.com/qinwf) Winners of the 2020 RStudio Table Contest (https://blog.rstudio.com/2020/12/23/winners-of-the-2020-rstudio-table-contest/) Latest News from the R Markdown Family (https://blog.rstudio.com/2020/12/21/rmd-news/) Supplemental…

Targetopia, extracting JSON data, and ggrepel update Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) The targetopia: An R package ecosystem for democratized reproducible pipelines at scale (https://wlandau.github.io/posts/2020-12-14-targetopia/) Extracting JSON data from websites and public APIs with R…

Underrated tidyverse functions, bullet chart variants, and AWS Lambda with R Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast (https://twitter.com/theRcast)) Underrated Tidyverse Functions (https://hugo-portfolio-example.netlify.app/projects/tidyverse_functions/) Bullet Chart Variants in R…

Extended ggplot2 tutorial, static code analysis, and a customized visual CV with ggplot2 Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono)) An extended version of "A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting"…

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 (https://twitter.com/ma_salmon)) Your first R package in 1 hour (https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2020-10-25-your-first-r-package-in-1-hour/) magrittr 2.0 is here!…

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 (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conference -- so much great content, so little time to catch it all...…

About this episode Open-access tools to find conronaviruses, developing inside containers, and error handling Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay (https://twitter.com/_colinfay)) Using Open-Access Tools (rentrez, taxize) to Find Coronaviruses, Their Genetic Sequences, and Their Hosts…