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most popular R books of 2023

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Here is something useful (to me, personally, and maybe too others), and thankfully not too pessimistic or morally fraught.

A Crash Course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using R – yes, please! We must end the tyranny of the monopolistic Environmental Systems “Research Institute”. Okay, they make some nice products, but just admit you are a rapacious for-profit corporation, please!

A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting in R – Who doesn’t need to improve their data visualization and communication game?

Make/write/record music with R

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Move over Garage Band, there is a new musical sheriff in town. For those of us who like to mess around in R – okay, realistically this gets added to my list of retirement projects a few decades down the road, assuming my body and brain manage to stick around for the next few decades.

gm: Generate Music Easily and Show Them Anywhere

Provides a simple and intuitive high-level language, with which you can create music easily. Takes care of all the dirty technical details in converting your music to musical scores and audio files. Works in ‘R Markdown’ documents <https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/>, R ‘Jupyter Notebooks’ <https://jupyter.org/>, and ‘RStudio’ <https://www.rstudio.com/>, so you can embed generated music anywhere. Internally, uses ‘MusicXML’ <https://www.musicxml.com/> to represent musical scores, and ‘MuseScore’ <https://musescore.org/> to convert ‘MusicXML’.

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novel writing software, Scrivener, and R Bookdown

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This is a pretty niche post, but a couple years ago I briefly entertained a fantasy of becoming a novelist. After I tried to write a novel, my the wisdom of not quitting my day job was affirmed. But in the course of that, I briefly investigated software that novelists are using to organize their books and research. The most popular is called Scrivener. I was thinking though that it would be neat if someone would customize the R packages Markdown or Bookdown for writing, because then especially if you are writing non-fiction you could have all your data, analysis code, tables, figures, references etc. in one place along with your prose. This post describes a system that allows the author to actually combine the use of Scrivener and R Bookdown.