R Weekly 2017 Issue 3

16 Jan 2017

Highlight

• How Stack Overflow plans to survive the next DNS attack - Server Fault Blog - Visualization with R

• Top 50 ggplot2 Visualizations - The Master List (With Full R Code)

• The best R package for learning to “think about visualization”

Live in rstudio::conf 2017

• Announcing RStudio Connect – For all the work your teams do in R

• What’s New in the RStudio IDE?

• kbroman/RStudioConf2017Slides - Links to slides for talks at the 2017 rstudio::conf

• RStudio Conference 2017 Recap

• Best tips & takeaways from RStudio Conference

• Intermediate Shiny Workshop

• The R-Podcast Episode 19: Talking Shiny at RStudio Conf with Barbara Borges and Dean Attali

Tutorials

• Animated barplot and google map with R

• Raccoon Ch 2.3 – 1-way Anova

• Extensions for simmer

• Regression model with auto correlated errors – Part 1, the data

• R for Beginners: Some Simple Code to Produce Informative Graphs, Part One

• Simulation of empirical Bayesian methods (using baseball statistics)

• Repeatedly applying a function

• Random Forest Classification of Mushrooms

• Delaware River Water Quality Visualization App

• Magic reprex

• Knit directly to jupyter notebooks from RStudio

• Using xml schema and xslt in R

• Building Particle Filters and Particle MCMC in NIMBLE

• New year resolution

• Trading Models and Distributed Lags

• Third Actuarial Pricing Game

• Plot Colour Helper – Finally an easy way to pick colours for your R plots!

• Entropy Based Image Binarization with imager and FSelectorRcpp

• Controlling Expenses on Ali Express with RSelenium

• Clustering executed SQL Server queries using R as tool for

• Using R sp_execute_external_script with JSON

Insights

• Rcpp now used by 900 CRAN packages

• Top 50 ggplot2 Visualizations - The Master List (With Full R Code)

• Some R News

• The best R package for learning to “think about visualization”

• Is it a job offer for a Data Scientist?

• Mapping useRs - The first in a series of posts on the useR! 2016 survey.

R in the Real World

• Text Mining Amazon Mobile Phone Reviews: Interesting Insights

• What can we learn from StackOverflow data?

• Fantasy Hockey with rvest and purrr

• benchmarkme Update

• The anatomy of a useful chart: NOAA’s flood forecasts

• How Stack Overflow plans to survive the next DNS attack - Server Fault Blog - Visualization with R

R in Organization

• SQL Server R Services – Why we built it

• Microsoft R Server tips from the Tiger Team

• Education Analytics with R and Cortana Intelligence Suite

Videos and Podcasts

• The R-Podcast Episode 19: Talking Shiny at RStudio Conf with Barbara Borges and Dean Attali

Resources

• In case you missed it: December 2016 roundup

• The Complete ggplot2 Tutorial - Part1 Introduction To ggplot2 (Full R code)

• Books I like

New Packages and Tools

• brms - R packages interfacing with Stan

• rtrie - The rtrie package allows you to quickly create Tries from a list of strings.

• fivethirtyeight - Data and Code Behind the Stories and Interactives at ‘FiveThirtyEight’

• shinytest - Unit tests for shiny apps — Work in Progress

• taskscheduleR - New RStudio add-in to schedule R scripts

• 2017-01 Authored Package Updates

• December 2016 Package Picks

New Releases

• DiagrammeR 0.9 - Create graph diagrams and flowcharts using R.

• RcppCCTZ 0.2.0 - ‘Rcpp’ Bindings for the ‘CCTZ’ Library

• nanotime 0.1.0 - Now on Windows

• Custom images for Shiny dashboard valueBox icons - I’ve provided a gist that shows how to achieve the use of custom icons with local image files.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• The format() and print() methods for object.size() results get new options standard and digits; notably, standard = "IEC" and standard = "SI" allow more standard abbreviations than the default ones, e.g., for kilo bytes. From contributions by Henrik Bengtsson.

• The order of flags when LinkingTo other packages has been changed so their include directories come earlier, before those specified in CPPFLAGS. This will only have an effect if non-system include directories are included with -I flags in CPPFLAGS (and so not the default -I/usr/local/include on most platforms).

• bug.report() now tries to extract an email address from a BugReports field, and if there is none, from a Contacts field.

• R CMD check now checks any BugReports field to be non-empty and a suitable single URL.

• bug.report() did not do any validity checking on a package’s BugReports field. It now ignores an empty field, removes leading whitespace and only attempts to open http:// and https:// URLs, falling back to emailing the maintainer.

• findMethod failed if the active signature had expanded beyond what a particular package used. (Example with packages XR and XRJulia on CRAN).

• On some systems, very small hexadecimal numbers in hex notation would underflow to zero. (PR#17199)

• (Windows only) dir.create() did not check the length of the path to create, and so could overflow a buffer and crash R. (PR#17206)

• Environmental variable _R_CHECK_TESTS_NLINES_ controls how R CMD check reports failing tests (see §8 of the R Internals manual).

Call for Participation

• R / Finance 2017 Call for Papers

• Call to join Forwards - the R Foundation taskforce on women and other under-represented groups.

Upcoming Events

• SatRday #2 Conference - Cape Town, South Africa 18 Feb, 2017
  The R community and some of South Africa’s most forward thinking companies have come together to bring satRday to Cape Town. This conference brings an opportunity to hear from and network with top Researchers, Data Scientists and Developers from all over the country and the world.

• useR! 2017 July 4, 2017
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community. Its program consists of both invited and user-contributed presentations.

Quotes of the Week

The tidyverse has a comfortable lead on base R in #rstudioconf tweets! (subtitle establishes my neutrality on the subject) #rstats pic.twitter.com/AuNmLVMjLF

— Mike Kearney📊 (@kearneymw) January 14, 2017

By one crude measure (page views on Wikipedia), R is catching Python in popularity. pic.twitter.com/9OUdj3dWI6

— Sean J. Taylor (@seanjtaylor) January 12, 2017

my 11-yr-old son just said to me, “I read your blog.” Urp.

— Karl Broman (@kwbroman) January 12, 2017