Bringing tidy principles to a fundamental visualization for gene expressions, being on your best "behavior" for organizing your tests, and how data.table stacks up to DuckDB and polars for reshaping your data layouts.Episode Links
---This week's curator: Jon Carroll - [@jonocarroll@fosstodon.org] (https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll) (Mastodon) & [@carroll_jono] (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono) (X/Twitter)
--- [Exploring the tidyHeatmap R package] (https://tomsing1.github.io/blog/posts/tidyHeatmap/)
--- [Don't Expect That "Function Works Correctly", Do This Instead] (https://jakubsob.github.io/blog/how-to-improve-your-unit-test-titles/)
--- [Comparing data.table reshape to duckdb and polars] (https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-10-17-duckdb_polars_reshape-toby_hocking/)
---Entire issue available at [rweekly.org/2024-W43] (https://rweekly.org/2024-W43.html)
Supplement Resources
---tidyHeatmap: Draw heatmap simply using a tidy data frame [https://stemangiola.github.io/tidyHeatmap/] (https://stemangiola.github.io/tidyHeatmap/)
---Novel App knock-in mouse model shows key features of amyloid pathology and reveals profound metabolic dysregulation of microglia [https://molecularneurodegeneration.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13024-022-00547-7] (https://molecularneurodegeneration.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13024-022-00547-7)
---Shiny App-Packages chapter on writing tests and specifications [https://mjfrigaard.github.io/shiny-app-pkgs/test_specs.html] (https://mjfrigaard.github.io/shiny-app-pkgs/test_specs.html)
---WANT CLEANER UNIT TESTS? TRY ARRANGE, ACT, ASSERT COMMENTS [https://jakubsob.github.io/blog/want-cleaner-test-try-arrange-act-assert/] (https://jakubsob.github.io/blog/want-cleaner-test-try-arrange-act-assert/)
---Super Data Science Podcast 827: Polars: Past, Present and Future, with Polars Creator Ritchie Vink [https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast/827] (https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast/827)
---duckplyr: A DuckDB-backed version for dplyr [https://duckplyr.tidyverse.org/] (https://duckplyr.tidyverse.org/)
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