R Weekly 2018-14 reticulate, R-Ladies, BotRNot

02 Apr 2018

Highlight

• reticulate: R interface to Pythonblog.rstudio.com ( rstudio.com ) 

• R Consortium welcomes R-Ladies as a top level projectwww.r-consortium.org ( r-consortium.org ) 

• BotRNot: An R app to detect Twitter botsblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• Feb 2018: “Top 40” New Package Picksrviews.rstudio.com ( rviews.rstudio.com ) 

• dynprogmailund.github.io - dynamic programming domain-specific language ( mailund.github.io ) 

• ggdagmalco.io - tidy causal directed acyclic graphs ( malco.io ) 

• realtRasbcllc.com - Your gateway to residential property information. ( asbcllc.com ) 

• reticulateblog.rstudio.com - R interface to Python ( rstudio.com ) 

• DoORropensci.org - The Database of Odorant Responses ( ropensci.org ) 

GitHub or Bitbucket

• mathart: create mathematical art with Rgithub.com ( github.com ) 

Package Releases

• smoothr 0.0.1strimas.com - Spatial Feature Smoothing in R ( strimas.com ) 

• auk 0.2.0cornelllabofornithology.github.io - eBird data extraction and processing ( cornelllabofornithology.github.io ) 

• DT 0.4blog.rstudio.com - Editing Tables, Smart Filtering, and More ( rstudio.com ) 

Resources

• A titanic kaggle solve using caret and tidy-toolsrsangole.netlify.com ( rsangole.netlify.com ) 
• CRANalerts - Get email alerts when a CRAN package gets updatedcranalerts.com ( cranalerts.com ) 

Insights

• Lintr Bot, lintr’s Hester eggwww.masalmon.eu ( masalmon.eu ) 

• Global Terrorismdominikkoch.github.io ( dominikkoch.github.io ) 

• What’s a variable in R?rex-analytics.com ( rex-analytics.com ) 

• Startup with Secrets - A Poor Man’s Approachwww.jottr.org ( jottr.org ) 

• Which world leaders are twitter bots?blog.jumpingrivers.com ( jumpingrivers.com ) 

R in Organizations

• R Consortium welcomes R-Ladies as a top level projectwww.r-consortium.org ( r-consortium.org ) 

R in the Real World

• Building a shinydashboard that features an adapted JAWS statistic for evaluating nominees and members of a MLB franchise’s Hall of Fameerbo.rbind.io ( erbo.rbind.io ) 

• How to map public debt data with ggplot2www.sharpsightlabs.com ( sharpsightlabs.com ) 

• BotRNot: An R app to detect Twitter botsblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

R Internationally

• Autoformation avec swirl tutoriels-data-mining.blogspot.fr ( tutoriels-data-mining.blogspot.fr ) 

Tutorials

• R⁶ — Capturing [YouTube] Captionsrud.is ( rud.is ) 

• Settlers of Catanemmavestesson.netlify.com ( emmavestesson.netlify.com ) 

• Exploring NSE: enquo, quos and …www.daeconomist.com - How do you make your customs play well with your favourite tidyverse packages? ( daeconomist.com ) 

• A vignette and introduction to a tiny package that creates node and edge lists for use in working with text and network data. Uses a public dataset as an example.aczane.netlify.com ( aczane.netlify.com ) 

• What is Tidy Eval and Why Should I Care?thisisnic.github.io ( thisisnic.github.io ) 

• Exploring Tidy Eval at a Snail’s Pacethisisnic.github.io ( thisisnic.github.io ) 

• Using tidy eval with dplyr::filterthisisnic.github.io ( thisisnic.github.io ) 

• Exploring the underlying theory of the chi-square test through simulation - part 2www.rdatagen.net ( rdatagen.net ) 

• Parsing data part 1. The minilexer package - A Simple Lexer in Rcoolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ( coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ) 

• Freeing Educational Data With A Shiny Appkgilds.rbind.io ( kgilds.rbind.io ) 

• Use let() to Re-Map Nameswww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Explorations in Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) - comparing results from MCMCglmm and lme4jrosen48.github.io ( jrosen48.github.io ) 

• a small chess plotting package for R :)www.robert-hickman.eu ( robert-hickman.eu ) 

• Unstandardizing coefficients from a GLMMaosmith.rbind.io ( aosmith.rbind.io ) 

• a null hypothesis with a 99% probability to be true…xianblog.wordpress.com ( xianblog.wordpress.com ) 

• Generate image captions with the Computer Vision APIblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Use Lists to re-Map Valueswww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Use Named Vectors to Re-Map Valueswww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Great Circles with Rjessesadler.com ( jessesadler.com ) 

• Discriminant Analysis: Statistics All The Wayr-posts.com ( r-posts.com ) 

• Steps to Perform Survival Analysis in Rr-posts.com ( r-posts.com ) 

• Data Visualization Website with Shinyr-video-tutorial.blogspot.hk ( r-video-tutorial.blogspot.hk ) 

• Adding arguments to existing R functions, or A Weirdly Esoteric Thing I’ll Probably Never Do Againblog.karawoo.com ( karawoo.com ) 

R Project Updates

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

• match.arg() more carefully chooses the environment for constucting default choices, fixing PR#17401 as proposed by Duncan Murdoch.

• optim(*, control = list(warn.1d.NelderMead = FALSE)) allows to turn off the warning when applying the default "Nelder-Mead" method to 1-dimensional problems.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• New York R conference Aprl 20-21
  New York R conferencewww.rstats.nyc, Discount Code : rladies ( rstats.nyc ) 

• eRum 20182018.erum.io May 14-16
  European R Users Meeting @ Budapest, Hungary ( 2018.erum.io ) 

• R/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
  Applied Finance with Rwww.rinfinance.com. ( rinfinance.com ) 

• CascadiaRConfcascadiarconf.com June 2 Portland, OR, US ( cascadiarconf.com ) 

More past events at R conferences & meetupsconf.rweekly.org. ( conf.rweekly.org ) 

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

using #Pythontwitter.com and #rstatstwitter.com in the same RMarkdown document is pretty awesome with the Reticulate Package. Objects from Python are accessible in R using the magic `py` object. Pretty amazing, imo. pic.twitter.com/iQPqWuJ4RNt.co ( twitter.com ) 

— JD Long (@CMastication) March 28, 2018twitter.com ( twitter.com ) 

devtools: my life coach #rstatstwitter.com pic.twitter.com/65OpAOHM26t.co ( twitter.com ) 

— Max Kuhn (@topepos) March 31, 2018twitter.com ( twitter.com )