R Weekly 2017-27 R Survey, dbplyr

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R in the Real World

Colorcoded map: regional population structures at a glance

R in Organizations

Videos and Podcasts

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

  • mapedit - Interactive Editing of Spatial Data in R

  • sparsio - I/O Operations with Sparse Matrices

  • leaflet.extras - Extra Functionality for ‘leaflet’ Package

Package Releases

Tutorials

Playing with R, infix functions, and pizza

Characterizing Twitter followers with tidytext

HexJSON HTMLWidget for R, Part 1

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

  • Setting the LC_ALL category in Sys.setlocale() invalidates any cached locale-specific day/month names and the AM/PM indicator for strptime() (as setting LC_TIME has since R 3.1.0).

  • system and system2 now allow to specify a timeout (this feature is currently experimental and subject to change).

  • within(<list>, rm(x1, x2)) works correctly again.

  • regexec(pattern, text, *) now also applies as.character(.) to its first two arguments, as documented.

  • The list method of within() gets an option keepAttrs = FALSE for speed up.

Upcoming Events

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

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