R Weekly 2017 Issue 16

17 Apr 2017

Highlight

• dplyr 0.6.0 coming soon!

• Writing an R Package

Resources

• Basic Regex in R

• Workshop on Generalized Linear Mixed-Effects Modeling in R

• remake-tutorial - A hands-on tutorial for remake, Make-like declarative workflows in R

• Shiny User Showcase

• Writing an R Package

Insights

• R is for Archaeology: A report on the 2017 Society of American Archaeology meeting

• Reproducible assignments with R-markdown

• R benchmark for High-Performance Analytics and Computing (II): GPU Packages

• Statistical Errors in the Medical Literature

• dplyr 0.6.0 coming soon!

R in the Real World

• Rcpp now used by 1000 CRAN packages

• Sow the seeds, know the seeds - From Github API search endpoint you can get up to 1,000 results corresponding to a query which in the case of set.seed occurrences in R code.

• Data Amp: a major on-line Microsoft event, April 19

• The Walking Dead TV Series is becoming worse season after season

• Some Facts about Jeff Leek

• Plotting house price trends with FRED and R

• Come Fly With Me (well, not really) — Comparing Involuntary Disembarking Rates Across U.S. Airlines in R

• Mortgage rates after dark

Videos and Podcasts

• R Weekly Podcast 2017:16 - dplyr new features - Podcast Feed

• 8th MilanoR Meeting - Presentations, photos and video

• NSSD 36 - Ripped From the Headlines

• Open SourceCraft 10 - Interview with Dirk Eddelbuettel

R Internationally

• How I learned R - Wie ich R gelernt habe

R in Academia

• Interactive Graphics for Visually Diagnosing Forest Classifiers in R

Tutorials

• Create a pixel map with R

• Data Validation with assertr: Dates and Regular Expressions

• Plotting house price trends with FRED and R

• ReinforcementLearning: A package for replicating human behavior in R

• #4: Simpler shoulders()

• #5: Easy package information

• A Python-Like walk() Function for R

• Exploring propensity score matching and weighting

• How to Integrate R with PHP

• Data on tour: Plotting 3D maps and location tracks

• Test driving Python integration in R, using the ‘reticulate’ package

• How and when: ridge regression with glmnet

• Transaction Costs are Not an Afterthought; Transaction Costs in quantstrat

• Plot inspiration via FiveThirtyEight

• Teaching pivot / un-pivot

• Prepare real-world data for analysis with the vtreat package

• Web Scraping and Applied Clustering Global Happiness and Social Progress Index

• pandas “transform” using the tidyverse

• Copper, Gold and Ten-Year Treasury Notes

• Extending existing packages: Rmisc

• QR Decomposition with Householder Reflections

• Nuts and Bolts of Quantstrat, Part V

• Custom comparison function for sorting data in R

• Sakura blossoms in Japan

• Linear splines with convenient parametrisations

• Fuzzy string Matching using fuzzywuzzyR and the reticulate package in R

• Impact of omitted variables on estimating causal effects - simulations

• Predicting tides in R

• How to learn R and statistics on your own?

• Feature Selection using Voice Gender Data and the #caret package

• Choosing R packages for mixed effects modelling based on the car you drive

• CoachellaR - A Cluster Analysis

• Optimising your blog with R and Google Optimize

• Seeing Theory: Learn Statistics through simulation

• Modified Age Bias Plot

• Hybrid content-based and collaborative filtering recommendations with {ordinal} logistic regression (2): Recommendation as discrete choice

New Packages

Go Live for More New Pkgs

• assertr - Data validation with the assertr package

• fastqcR - An R Package Facilitating Quality Controls of Sequencing Data for Large Numbers of Samples

• ggparliament - Simple parliament plots using ggplot2

• thankr - Find out who maintains the R packages you use and say ‘thank you’

• March ‘17 New Package Picks

Package Releases

• tidyverse updates

• checkpoint 0.4.0 - Package Time Machine

• RSiteCatalyst 1.4.12 - R Client for Adobe Analytics API V1.4

• RcppArmadillo 0.7.800.2.0 - Provides an interface from R to and from Armadillo by utilising the Rcpp R/C++ interface library.

• RStudio Connect 1.4.6

Call for Participation

• Contribute to the R language track on exercism.io

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• readRDS(url(....)) now works.

Upcoming Events

• R/Finance 2017 May 19 and 20, 2017
  From the inaugural conference in 2009, the annual R/Finance conference in Chicago has become the primary meeting for academics and practioners interested in using R in Finance.

• CSAMA 2017 June 11 - 16, 2017
  Statistical Data Analysis for Genome-Scale Biology teaches statistical and computational analysis of multi-omics studies in biology and biomedicine. Practical hands-on exercises are based on the R / Bioconductor environment.

• useR! 2017 July 4, 2017
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Quotes of the Week

We are pleased to announce that the #rstats conference useR! 2018 will take place in Brisbane, Australia on 10-13 July 2018. Save the date.

— The R Foundation (@_R_Foundation) April 11, 2017

#rstats at Google means ... pic.twitter.com/1FCtlCOLwU

— Matt Dowle (@MattDowle) April 12, 2017

😂 pic.twitter.com/LD4inGCQGW

— Drew Conway (@drewconway) April 12, 2017