R Weekly 2017-50 datapasta, Reproducible, Names
Highlight
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datapasta - R Tools for Data Copy-Pasta
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Names of b…..s badder than Taylor Swift, a class in women’s studies?
Insights
R in the Real World
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trackeR - Infrastructure for Running and Cycling Data from GPS-Enabled Tracking Devices in R
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The Cost of True Love (a.k.a. The Tidy — and expensive! — Twelve Days of Christmas)
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Names of b…..s badder than Taylor Swift, a class in women’s studies?
Videos and Podcasts
Resources
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Course materials for BIOST561, Computational Skills for Biostatistics
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Technical Foundations of Informatics: Section A, Autumn 2017
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Less (Exciting) is More. Slides from Boston Bioconductor Shiny Talk
R in Organizations
R in Academia
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Modeling the effects of interspecies competition on the growth of trees
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archivist: An R Package for Managing, Recording and Restoring Data Analysis Results
New Packages
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Rokemon - Pokemon themed R package
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foghorn - 📢 🚢 R package to summarize CRAN Check Results in the Terminal
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patchwork - The Composer of ggplots
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geniusr - interface to the Genius API (songs lyrics)
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PlackettLuce - Estimate the worth of items based on rankings data. Movies, puddings & more!
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togglr - an R and Rstudio wrapper for toggl API (time tracking)
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jmv - one R package (not just) for the social sciences
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ipumsr - Integrating IPUMS Data with R
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walmartAPI, Walmart Open API wrapper
Package Releases
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magick 1.6 - clipping, geometries, fonts, fuzz, and a bit of history
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tidyxl 1.0.0 - Read untidy Excel files in R
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RcppArmadillo 0.8.300.1.0 - an interface from R to and from Armadillo
Tutorials
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core:
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The version of LAPACK included in the sources has been updated to 3.8.0 (for the routines used by R a very minor bug-fix change).
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Sys.timezone()
is now used to find the system timezone to pass to the code used when R is configured with--with-internal-tzcode
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power.prop.test()
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Sys.timezone(location = FALSE)
is defunct, and is ignored (with a warning).
Upcoming Events
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RStudio conf 2018 January 31 to February 3
rstudio::conf is about all things R and RStudio! -
satRday Cape Town 2018 March 17
satRday Cape Town
More past events at R conferences & meetups.
Call for Participation
- satRday Cape Town 2018 - Call for papers
Quotes of the Week
You know what I like about the #rstats community? The inter-discliplinary interaction. R has lead me to people working in #PoliSci #psychology #finance #measure #stats #computationalbiology #Transportation
— Elea McDonnell Feit (@eleafeit) 7 de desembre de 2017
- Papa, what are you doing?
— Ilya Kashnitsky (@ikashnitsky) 4 de desembre de 2017
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How I ended up generating #rstats snow for my 3yo daughter Sophia#ggplot2 #dataviz pic.twitter.com/29sk1HpROJ