R Weekly 2017 Issue 17

24 Apr 2017

Highlight

• R 3.4.0 is released!stat.ethz.ch ( stat.ethz.ch ) 

• Release ‘open’ data from their PDF prisons using tabulizerropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• gluegithub.com - Interpreted String Literals ( github.com ) 

R in the Real World

• What programming languages are used late at night?stackoverflow.blog ( stackoverflow.blog ) 

• Of kernels and beeswarms: Comparing the distribution of house values to household incomelenkiefer.github.io ( lenkiefer.github.io ) 

• Pokemon Types Distribution by Region [OC]www.reddit.com ( reddit.com ) 

• Shuttering Pies With Retiring Storesrud.is ( rud.is ) 

• Personal data collection and analysisrandomjohn.github.io ( randomjohn.github.io ) 

• Gather round and spread the word: Wrangling global house price datalenkiefer.github.io ( lenkiefer.github.io ) 

R in Organizations

• Microsoft R Server 9.1 now availableblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• First openEO hackaton reportr-spatial.org ( r-spatial.org ) 

Insights

• Book Review: Introduction to Empirical Bayes by David Robinsondandermotj.github.io ( dandermotj.github.io ) 

• mabbles - The missing piece of a unified theory of tidyness4dpiecharts.com ( 4dpiecharts.com ) 

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Resources

• Computing and Fitting Monotone Splinesrpubs.com ( rpubs.com ) 

• Circular Visualization in Rzuguang.de ( zuguang.de ) 

Tutorials

• Easy XML to Data Frames with xml2 while mapping power outagesrud.is ( rud.is ) 

• Decomposing Composers with Rrud.is ( rud.is ) 

• Random GeoJSON and WKT with randgeoropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• How to use the US National Map as a base layer for your US mapping processesowi.usgs.gov ( owi.usgs.gov ) 

• Prophet Explore: A Simple Shiny App to Get Introduced to Prophetomaymas.github.io ( omaymas.github.io ) 

• Network visualization with Rkateto.net ( kateto.net ) 

• When Homoglyphs Attack! Generating Phishing Domain Names with Rrud.is ( rud.is ) 

• A Shiny App for Importing and Forecasting Commodities Prices from Quandlrviews.rstudio.com ( rviews.rstudio.com ) 

• R for Enterprise: Understanding R’s Startup rviews.rstudio.com ( rviews.rstudio.com ) 

• Let’s Pixelate Americalenkiefer.github.io ( lenkiefer.github.io ) 

• Composing reproducible manuscripts using R Markdownr-posts.com ( r-posts.com ) 

• Comprehensive Guide on t-SNE algorithm with implementation in R & Pythonwww.analyticsvidhya.com ( analyticsvidhya.com ) 

• Encoding categorical variables: one-hot and beyondwww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Online But In-Class Examinations (with an R Example)matloff.wordpress.com ( matloff.wordpress.com ) 

• Happy EasteR: Plotting hare populations in Germanyshiring.github.io ( shiring.github.io ) 

• Playing with Prophet on Bike Sharing Demand Time Seriesmedium.com ( medium.com ) 

• Generating Dynamic Nomograms using DynNomr-posts.com ( r-posts.com ) 

• Housing gets off to a good startlenkiefer.github.io ( lenkiefer.github.io ) 

• Bland-Altman Plot for Age Comparisons?derekogle.com ( derekogle.com ) 

More

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• antiwordgithub.com - Wraps the AntiWord utility to extract text from Microsoft Word documents. ( github.com ) 

• JeffLeekMemegithub.com - ‘True’ facts about Jeff Leek ( github.com ) 

• hgrgithub.com - Tools to Work with the Postlight Mercury API. Mercury takes any web article and returns only the relevant content — headline, author, body text, relevant images and more. ( github.com ) 

• mastodongithub.com - R based Mastodon client ( github.com ) 

• roadoigithub.com - Use oaDOI.org with R, a simple interface which links DOIs and open access versions of scholarly works. oaDOI powers unpaywall. ( github.com ) 

• hoardrcran.r-project.org - Suite of tools for managing cached files, targeting use in other R packages. ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• gluegithub.com - Interpreted String Literals ( github.com ) 

• March ‘17 New Package Picksrviews.rstudio.com ( rviews.rstudio.com ) 

Package Releases

• R 3.4.0 is released!stat.ethz.ch ( stat.ethz.ch ) 

• huxtable 0.2.0hughjonesd.github.io - an R package for creating HTML and LaTeX tables ( hughjonesd.github.io ) 

• ompr 0.6.0cran.r-project.org - Model and Solve Mixed Integer Linear Programs ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• RcppQuantuccia 0.0.1dirk.eddelbuettel.com - header only essentials of QuantLib ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 

• readxl 1.0.0blog.rstudio.org - The readxl package makes it easy to get data out of Excel and into R. ( rstudio.org ) 

• Rblpapi 0.3.6dirk.eddelbuettel.com - Connecting R to Bloomberg ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 

Jobs

• Technical Program Manager at Johns Hopkins Universityjobs.jhu.edu ( jobs.jhu.edu ) 

Call for Participation

• 2017 China-R Beijing May 19-21china-r.org - The biggest R conference in China. ( china-r.org ) 

R Project Updates

Updates from R Coredeveloper.r-project.org: ( developer.r-project.org ) 

• Changes in R 3.4.0stat.ethz.ch ( stat.ethz.ch ) 

Upcoming Events

• R/Finance 2017www.rinfinance.com 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. ( rinfinance.com ) 

• CSAMA 2017www.huber.embl.de 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. ( huber.embl.de ) 

• useR! 2017user2017.brussels July 4, 2017
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community. ( user2017.brussels ) 

More past events at R conferences & meetupsconf.rweekly.org. ( conf.rweekly.org ) 

Quotes of the Week

#rstatstwitter.com R version 3.4.0 "You Stupid Darkness" (source version) is out of the door now ( twitter.com ) 

— Peter Dalgaard (@pdalgd) April 21, 2017twitter.com ( twitter.com ) 

Clippy is sad, because readxl v1.0.0 is out! He's afraid you'll move your data out of Excel and into #rstatstwitter.com. https://t.co/nG0NmwYYklt.co pic.twitter.com/yfSwc0UfOmt.co ( twitter.com ) 

— Jenny Bryan (@JennyBryan) April 19, 2017twitter.com ( twitter.com ) 

R and #Pythontwitter.com cheatsheets for #DataScientiststwitter.com: https://t.co/1uZN8FgNL9t.co #abdsctwitter.com #BigDatatwitter.com #DataSciencetwitter.com #Rstatstwitter.com #MachineLearningtwitter.com @rstudiotwitter.com pic.twitter.com/MGLvkedX69t.co ( twitter.com ) 

— Kirk Borne (@KirkDBorne) April 19, 2017twitter.com ( twitter.com )