R Weekly 2017-24 Analyzing, Growing, Building

12 Jun 2017

Highlight

• Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy analysis

Insights

• In case you missed it: May 2017 roundup

• Rediscovering Rd2roxygen

• The Ghost Printer Behind Top-level R Expressions

• What is the tidyverse?

R in the Real World

• Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy analysis

• Building Dot Density Maps with UK Census Data in R

Videos and Podcasts

• Analyzing Lengths of Not So Standard Deviations Episodes

• Wildfire Smoke Composition

R in Organizations

• Unconf projects: skimr, emldown, testrmd, webrockets and more - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

• Microsoft AI – Now Serving Critical Care Patients, Water-Insecure Populations in Africa, Bank Customers in New Zealand & Many More

• A Year of rOpenSci’s Unconf

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• proustr — access the work of Marcel Proust, ready for text analysis.

• plotdap - visualize ‘tabledap’ and ‘griddap’ objects obtained via the rerddap package.

• cld3 - Google’s Compact Language Detector 3

• electionsBR - An R to download and clean Brazilian electoral data.

• covfefe - Covfefy Any Word, Sentence or Speech

Package Releases

• here - constructs paths to your project’s files.

• RcppArmadillo 0.7.900.2.0

• anytime 0.3.0 - Convert Any Input to Parsed Date or Datetime

• quantmod 0.4-9 - Quantitative Financial Modelling & Trading Framework for R

R Internationally

• (Spanish) Visualizing Google Location History with R

• (French) Dataviz — Il n’y a pas que ggplot dans la vie !

Gist & Cookbook

• spark things - put Tufte-like sparkbars in R markdown documents

Tutorials

• Ode to the here package

• New book: Data Munging with R. Now available in early access; add suggestions and comments to drafts.

• Tutorial on using the Keras for R interface - build deep learning models using R!

• A brief inquiry into skimr’s console histograms

• Deferred & Remote Function Execution in R

• datazar

• Global choropleth maps of military expenditure

• R summary() got better!

• Shiny app to explore ggplot2

• Weather forecast with regression models – part 2

• R⁶ — Scraping Images To PDFs

• There is usually more than one way in R

• Who Survives Riddler Nation?

• Housing supply, population, and house prices: Tableau Dashboard

• Freedman’s paradox

• The Many-Faced Future

• Web data acquisition: from database to dataframe for data analysis and visualization (Part 4)

• Package “SentimentAnalysis” released on CRAN

• 2017-02 Variable-Width Line Ends and Line Joins

• More on safe substitution in R

• The Blissful Ignorance of the Narrative Fallacy

• How to create dot-density maps in R

• Add P-values and Significance Levels to ggplots

• Deep Learning with R

• Campaign Response Testing no longer published on Udemy

• Get the best from ggplotly

• Introduction to Set Theory and Sets with R

• Run massive parallel R jobs cheaply with updated doAzureParallel package

• Go packages in R packages

• Data Science for Business - Time Series Forecasting Part 2: Forecasting with timekit

• Consider Netlify instead of GitHub Pages for Your Static Websites

• Managing intermediate results when using R/sparklyr

• Introducing the MonteCarlo Package

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Reading from connections in text mode is buffered, significantly improving the performance of readLines(), as well as scan() and read.table(), at least when specfiying colClasses.

• order() is smarter about picking a default sort method when its arguments are objects.

• Extending S4 classes with slots corresponding to special attributes like dim and dimnames now works.

Upcoming Events

• angletR 2017 June 28 - 30, 2017
  angletR aims to provide a national forum to exchange and share ideas on the use of R in different subjects such as visualisation, applied statistics, biostatistics and bioinformatics, Bayesian statistics, data analysis, Big Data, modelling, machine learning, high performance computing, etc.

• 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

Fame at last: https://t.co/x4wIePKR6b -- it's always nice to get a bit of recognition! Coded in #rstats back in 2005, and it still runs.

— David Firth (@firthcity) June 7, 2017

When someone tells me they can't do something with #rstats ggplot2 I tell them to have a look at https://t.co/Y0QKOs9Dzx

— Maëlle Salmon (@ma_salmon) June 9, 2017

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