R Weekly 2017-24 Analyzing, Growing, Building

12 Jun 2017

Highlight

• Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy analysisvarianceexplained.org ( varianceexplained.org ) 

Insights

• In case you missed it: May 2017 roundupblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Rediscovering Rd2roxygenyihui.name ( yihui.name ) 

• The Ghost Printer Behind Top-level R Expressionsyihui.name ( yihui.name ) 

• What is the tidyverse? rviews.rstudio.com ( rviews.rstudio.com ) 

R in the Real World

• Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy analysisvarianceexplained.org ( varianceexplained.org ) 

• Building Dot Density Maps with UK Census Data in Rblog.cultureofinsight.com ( cultureofinsight.com ) 

Videos and Podcasts

• Analyzing Lengths of Not So Standard Deviations Episodesanalystmindset.com ( analystmindset.com ) 

• Wildfire Smoke Compositionwww.youtube.com ( youtube.com ) 

R in Organizations

• Unconf projects: skimr, emldown, testrmd, webrockets and moreropensci.org - 1ropensci.org, 2ropensci.org, 3ropensci.org, 4ropensci.org, 5ropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• Microsoft AI – Now Serving Critical Care Patients, Water-Insecure Populations in Africa, Bank Customers in New Zealand & Many Moreblogs.technet.microsoft.com ( blogs.technet.microsoft.com ) 

• A Year of rOpenSci’s Unconfseankross.com ( seankross.com ) 

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• proustrcolinfay.me — access the work of Marcel Proust, ready for text analysis. ( colinfay.me ) 

• plotdapgithub.com - visualize ‘tabledap’ and ‘griddap’ objects obtained via the rerddap package. ( github.com ) 

• cld3cran.r-project.org - Google’s Compact Language Detector 3 ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• electionsBRcran.r-project.org - An R to download and clean Brazilian electoral data. ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• covfefecran.r-project.org - Covfefy Any Word, Sentence or Speech ( cran.r-project.org ) 

Package Releases

• herecran.r-project.org - constructs paths to your project’s files. ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• RcppArmadillo 0.7.900.2.0dirk.eddelbuettel.com ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 

• anytime 0.3.0dirk.eddelbuettel.com - Convert Any Input to Parsed Date or Datetime ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 

• quantmod 0.4-9blog.fosstrading.com - Quantitative Financial Modelling & Trading Framework for R ( fosstrading.com ) 

R Internationally

• (Spanish) Visualizing Google Location History with Rbitsandbricks.github.io ( bitsandbricks.github.io ) 

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

Gist & Cookbook

• spark thingsgist.github.com - put Tufte-like sparkbars in R markdown documents ( gist.github.com ) 

Tutorials

• Ode to the here packagegithub.com ( github.com ) 

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

• Tutorial on using the Keras for R interface - build deep learning models using R!projects.rajivshah.com ( projects.rajivshah.com ) 

• A brief inquiry into skimr’s console histogramsdaranzolin.github.io ( daranzolin.github.io ) 

• Deferred & Remote Function Execution in Rrandom-remarks.net ( random-remarks.net ) 

• datazarxianblog.wordpress.com ( xianblog.wordpress.com ) 

• Global choropleth maps of military expenditureellisp.github.io ( ellisp.github.io ) 

• R summary() got better!www.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Shiny app to explore ggplot2r-posts.com ( r-posts.com ) 

• Weather forecast with regression models – part 2datascienceplus.com ( datascienceplus.com ) 

• R⁶ — Scraping Images To PDFsrud.is ( rud.is ) 

• There is usually more than one way in Rwww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Who Survives Riddler Nation?ntguardian.wordpress.com ( ntguardian.wordpress.com ) 

• Housing supply, population, and house prices: Tableau Dashboardlenkiefer.github.io ( lenkiefer.github.io ) 

• Freedman’s paradoxwww.alexejgossmann.com ( alexejgossmann.com ) 

• The Many-Faced Futurewww.jottr.org ( jottr.org ) 

• Web data acquisition: from database to dataframe for data analysis and visualization (Part 4)r-posts.com ( r-posts.com ) 

• Package “SentimentAnalysis” released on CRANwww.rblog.uni-freiburg.de ( rblog.uni-freiburg.de ) 

• 2017-02 Variable-Width Line Ends and Line Joinsstattech.wordpress.fos.auckland.ac.nz ( stattech.wordpress.fos.auckland.ac.nz ) 

• More on safe substitution in Rwww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• The Blissful Ignorance of the Narrative Fallacymultithreaded.stitchfix.com ( multithreaded.stitchfix.com ) 

• How to create dot-density maps in Rblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Add P-values and Significance Levels to ggplotswww.sthda.com ( sthda.com ) 

• Deep Learning with Rdatascienceplus.com ( datascienceplus.com ) 

• Campaign Response Testing no longer published on Udemywww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Get the best from ggplotlywww.r-graph-gallery.com ( r-graph-gallery.com ) 

• Introduction to Set Theory and Sets with Rwww.aaronschlegel.com ( aaronschlegel.com ) 

• Run massive parallel R jobs cheaply with updated doAzureParallel packageblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Go packages in R packagesromain.rbind.io ( romain.rbind.io ) 

• Data Science for Business - Time Series Forecasting Part 2: Forecasting with timekitshiring.github.io ( shiring.github.io ) 

• Consider Netlify instead of GitHub Pages for Your Static Websitesyihui.name ( yihui.name ) 

• Managing intermediate results when using R/sparklyrwww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Introducing the MonteCarlo Packagefirstdifferences.wordpress.com ( firstdifferences.wordpress.com ) 

R Project Updates

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

• 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 2017angletr2017.com 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. ( angletr2017.com ) 

• 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

Fame at last: https://t.co/x4wIePKR6bt.co -- it's always nice to get a bit of recognition! Coded in #rstatstwitter.com back in 2005, and it still runs. ( t.co ) 

— David Firth (@firthcity) June 7, 2017twitter.com ( twitter.com ) 

When someone tells me they can't do something with #rstatstwitter.com ggplot2 I tell them to have a look at https://t.co/Y0QKOs9Dzxt.co ( twitter.com ) 

— Maëlle Salmon (@ma_salmon) June 9, 2017twitter.com ( twitter.com ) 

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