R Weekly 2017-20 Interactive Tutorials, Tidyverse Functions, Wikimedia Dashboards

15 May 2017

Highlight

• learnr - Interactive Tutorials for R

• rlang - Functions for Base Types and Core R and ‘Tidyverse’ Features

• Wikimedia Discovery Dashboards

Insights

• Travis-CI Flaw Exposed Some ‘Secure’ Environment Variable Contents

• Exploding barplot - Animation (with R-script and example data)

• reading/writing biggish data, revisited

• Introducing Stack Overflow Trends

• Automated Machine Learning — A Paradigm Shift That Accelerates Data Scientist Productivity @ Airbnb

R in the Real World

• Mapping the French second round results with R

• Analyzing data on CRAN packages

• Plot the Vote: Making U.S. Senate & House Cartograms in R

• R Questions Tag Pairs on Stackoverflow

• Modelling individual party vote from the 2014 New Zealand election study

• R⁶ — Tracking WannaCry Bitcoin Wallet Payments with R

• Measuring Impact from Giving Talks on My R Package Downloads

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD 38 - Banging on the Piano - Hilary and Roger revisit the desktop vs. cloud discussion, Hilary recaps csvconf, and Roger discusses the aesthetics of data analysis.

R in Organizations

• Wikimedia Discovery Dashboards

• Come see RStudio at an event near you next week!

• Predicting Hospital Length of Stay using SQL Server R Services

• Looking Forward to R/Finance 2017

• Forecasting GDP with R and dataseries.org

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New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• shinymaterial - Shiny Material adds the design of Google’s material design through the Materialize css framework

• pvm - Package Version Manager for R

• learnr - Interactive Tutorials for R

• rlang - Functions for Base Types and Core R and ‘Tidyverse’ Features

• tidygenomics - Tidy Verbs for Dealing with Genomic Data Frames

• brushthat - Brush up your tests!

• cyphr - :shipit: Humane encryption

Package Releases

• d3panels - d3panels and R/qtlcharts for D3 version 4

• opencpu 1.6.1 - Producing and Reproducing Results

Tutorials

• Extracting data from Twitter for #machinelearningflashcards

• Studying CRAN package names

• readxl Workflows

• Mapping Quandl Macroeconomic Data

• niceOverPlot, or when the number of dimensions does matter

• Google Page Rank and the impact of the Second EigenValue of the Google Matrix on Power Iteration Convergence in R

• Overdispersion tests in #rstats

• dplyr in Context

• Evolution of ice hockey players’ height: IIHF world championships 2001-2016

• R Quick Tip: parameter re-use within rmarkdown YAML

• Machine Learning. Regression Trees and Model Trees (Predicting Wine Quality)

• From Points to (Messy) Lines

• Turning kindle notes into a tidy data

• In case you missed it: April 2017 roundup

• Reports or Newspapers – The Two Sides of Healthcare Priorities

• Load a Python/pandas data frame from an HDF5 file into R

• Pretty histograms with ggplot2

• Which linear model is best?

• tidyquant: New Tools for Performing Financial Analysis within the Tidy Ecosystem

• Graphical Presentation of Missing Data; VIM Package

• Parsing Text for Emotion Terms: Analysis & Visualization Using R

• Adding CI To RMarkdown Documents

• How to go about interpreting regression cofficients

• Better block sampling in MCMC with the Automated Factor Slice Sampler

• Studying CRAN package names

• Installing Packages without Internet

• Analyzing the home advantage in English soccer, with R

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.

• rOpenSci Unconf 2017 May 25 and 26, 2017
  For a fourth year running, this event aims bring together scientists, developers, and open data enthusiasts from academia, industry, government, and non-profit to get together for a few days and hack on various projects (invite-only).

• R in Insurance 2017 June 8, 2017
  This one-day conference will focus on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation.

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Quotes of the Week

because R

— Joel Spolsky (@spolsky) May 9, 2017