R-bloggers - Part 45

The {chronicler} package, an implementation of the logger monad in R

March 31, 2022 | Econometrics and Free Software

Back in February I discussed a package I was working on which allowed users to add logging to function calls. I named the package {loudly} but decided to rename it to {chronicler}. I have been working on it for the past few weeks, and I think that a CRAN release ...

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RStudio Community Monthly Events Roundup – April 2022

March 31, 2022 | RStudio | Open source & professional software for data science teams on RStudio

Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash Welcome to RStudio Community Monthly Events Roundup, where we update you on upcoming virtual events happening at RStudio this month. Missed the great talks and presentations from last month? Find them listed under I... [Read more...]

Programming with lapply

March 31, 2022 | tshafer.com

TIL that lapply accepts both functions and function names (as character vectors). From right there in the documentation (emph. mine): FUN is found by a call to match.fun and typically is specified as a function or a symbol (e.... [Read more...]

Calculate Standard Error in R

March 31, 2022 | Srinivas

The standard error (SE) of a statistic is the standard deviation of its sampling distribution or an estimate of that standard deviation. The standard error is calculated by dividing the standard deviation by the square root…

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New(ish) paper: Share the code, not just the data: A case study of the reproducibility of JML articles published under the open data policy

March 31, 2022 | Shravan Vasishth

Here's an important new paper led by Dr. Anna Laurinavichyute on the reproducibility of published analyses. This paper by commissioned by the editor in chief of the Journal of Memory and Language, Kathy Rastle.Title: Share the code, not just ... [Read more...]

What is a horizon chart?

March 30, 2022 | kjytay

A horizon chart is a compact version of an area chart. In the words of Jonathan Schwabish (Reference 1, page 164), it is … an area chart that is sliced into equal horizontal intervals and collapsed down into single bands, … Continue reading →

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Underrated CRAN Packages

March 30, 2022 | Mark Edney

I sit here looking for inspiration, nothing interesting to write about. Perhaps there are some popular R packages on CRAN that I don’t know about? You can explore the data on downloads from CRAN with the cranlogs package. Top CRAN downloads Wit...

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Underrated CRAN Packages

March 30, 2022 | R on The Data Sandbox

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New R package yfR

March 30, 2022 | R | msperlin

Package BatchGetSymbols facilitates importation of Yahoo Finance data directly into R and is one of my most popular R packages, with over 100k installations since conception (around 2500 downloads per month). However, I developed BatchGetSymbols back in 2016, with many bad structural choices from my part. For years I wanted to improved ... [Read more...]

How I analyze 100+ ggplots at once

March 30, 2022 | Business Science

Visualizing big data is next to impossible. As soon as I have 12 plots, that’s where my ability to use native ggplot suffers. That is until I found trelliscopejs. trelliscopejs is like ggplot2 faceting on steroids. This may seem crazy, but the benefit...

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Track Shiny App User Activity With the RStudio Connect Server API

March 29, 2022 | RStudio | Open source & professional software for data science teams on RStudio

Data scientists spend a lot of time creating apps, dashboards, and reports. All of this effort is often hampered by siloed workflows between coworkers and across teams, which leads to delays in presenting your insights to stakeholders and clients. After all that time and effort, are you even sure what ...

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RcppBDT 0.2.5: Maintenance

March 29, 2022 | Thinking inside the box

A minor maintenance release for the RcppBDT package is now on CRAN. The RcppBDT package is an early adopter of Rcpp and was one of the first packages utilizing Boost and its Date_Time library. The now more widely-used package anytime is a direct desc... [Read more...]

COVID-19 Data Hub Paper Published in Nature Scientific Data

March 29, 2022 | R Consortium

“A worldwide epidemiological database for COVID-19 at fine-grained spatial resolution” by COVID-19 Data Hub developer, Emanuele Guidotti was published in Scientific Data on the March 28, 2022, and is available... The post COVID-19 Data Hub Paper Published in Nature Scientific Data appeared first on R Consortium.

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R Shiny in Life Sciences – Top 7 Dashboard Examples

March 29, 2022 | Dario Radečić

Today we bring you 7 dashboard examples of R Shiny in life sciences. R Shiny is one of the easiest ways for developers to make production-ready dashboards when speed and functionality are crucial. Shiny is approachable with a lot of documentation available, and because of this, a lot of developers/researchers ...

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Search through your ecological data with the ‘grep()’ function

March 29, 2022 | R on R (for ecology)

We often want to search for a certain character pattern in our data. We do this all the time when we press “ctrl + F” (or “cmd + F” for a mac) on a webpage. For example, maybe you have a list of species names and want to find al...

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Using R to detect the pressure wave from the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption in personal weather station data

March 29, 2022 | nsaunders

It seems like an age ago, but in fact it was only mid-January 2022 when this happened: The answers are yes and yes again. One excellent source of weather station data is the Weather Underground. They used to have an API which could be accessed through an R package, rwunderground. This ...

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Recreating the Storytelling with Data look with ggplot

March 28, 2022 | Albert Rapp

So, I found a great video from Storytelling with Data (SWD). In this video, a data storyteller demonstrates how a dataviz that does not demonstrate a clear story can be improved. Let’s take a look at the dataviz but, first, here’s the data.

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How to download Kobotoolbox data in R

March 28, 2022 | R on Asitav Sen

Kobotoolbox is a popular tool or platform used by Non-profit organizations across the globe to collect data. Using a R package it is now possible, with convenience, to download data from Kobotoolbox to R. Kobotoolbox Kobotoolbox is perhaps the most widely used data collection tool used by non-profit organizations across ... [Read more...]

scikit-learn models in R with reticulate

March 28, 2022 | Johannes B. Gruber on Johannes B. Gruber

I have tried to venture into Python several times over the years. The language itself seems simple enough to learn but as someone who has only ever used R (and a bit of Stata), there were two things that held me back: I never really found an IDE th...

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rsnps 0.5.0: New ncbi_snp_query() Features

March 28, 2022 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

TL;DR rsnps is a package that enables the retrieval of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from the NCBI’s dbSNP database and openSNP by providing wrappers for the APIs. Single nucleotide polymorphisms represent differences at one specifi... [Read more...]

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