R Weekly 2018-16 Questions, Readings, Inferences

16 Apr 2018

Highlight

• Stack Overflow questions around the worldjuliasilge.com ( juliasilge.com ) 

• Readings in applied data sciencegithub.com ( github.com ) 

• Statistical Inference: A Tidy Approachismayc.github.io - Slides for short course at the New England Statistical Symposium. ( ismayc.github.io ) 

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• promisescran.r-project.org - Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• pkgnetcran.r-project.org - Get Network Representation of an R Package ( cran.r-project.org ) 

GitHub or Bitbucket

• klrfomegithub.com - Kernel Logistic Regression on Focal Mean Embeddings, for solving the distribution regresion problem ( github.com ) 

Package Releases

• future 1.8.0www.jottr.org - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone ( jottr.org ) 

• tint 0.1.0dirk.eddelbuettel.com - Styles provided by the tufte package. ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 

• Shiny Server (Pro) 1.5.7blog.rstudio.com ( rstudio.com ) 

• CRANalerts: Get email alerts when a CRAN package gets updateddeanattali.com ( deanattali.com ) 

Resources

• Readings in applied data sciencegithub.com ( github.com ) 

• Developing Your First R Package: A Case Study with esviswww.dandersondata.com ( dandersondata.com ) 

• Turning your PhD (or other research project) into an R packagehtmlpreview.github.io ( htmlpreview.github.io ) 

• The Little Book of LDA - An Overview of Latent Dirichlet Allocationldabook.com ( ldabook.com ) 

• Statistical Inference: A Tidy Approachismayc.github.io - Slides for short course at the New England Statistical Symposium. ( ismayc.github.io ) 

• R-ecology-lessongithub.com - Data Carpentry R lessons on ecology. ( github.com ) 

Insights

• .rprofile: Noam Rossropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• Dissecting R Package “Utility Belts”rud.is ( rud.is ) 

R in Organizations

• Package Licensing: Would the R Community like some help? Feedback from the trencheswww.r-consortium.org ( r-consortium.org ) 

R in the Real World

• Does Congress Really Care About Your Privacy?rud.is ( rud.is ) 

• Exploring the Relationship Between Dog Names and Breedskaylinwalker.com ( kaylinwalker.com ) 

• Where aRe the Rufous Hummingbirds?github.com ( github.com ) 

• Analysis of sleep data with R.www.seanlnguyen.com ( seanlnguyen.com ) 

• Web scraping from Wikipedia with rvest and topic modelling with LDAannamarbut.blogspot.com ( annamarbut.blogspot.com ) 

• My first Shiny app, scaling ingredients for buttermilk pancakessnewns92.shinyapps.io ( snewns92.shinyapps.io ) 

• Exploring Tuberculosis Monitoring Indicators in England; Using Dimension Reduction and Clustering (with fingertipsR)www.samabbott.co.uk ( samabbott.co.uk ) 

• Extending DT child rows examplewww.reigo.eu ( reigo.eu ) 

• How do the different character-to-datetime convertors in R perform?rsangole.netlify.com ( rsangole.netlify.com ) 

• Stack Overflow questions around the worldjuliasilge.com ( juliasilge.com ) 

• Struggle with Harry Potter Datawww.questionflow.org ( questionflow.org ) 

Tutorials

• Regular Expressions Every R programmer Should Knowblog.jumpingrivers.com ( jumpingrivers.com ) 

• A short tutorial on how to create interactive maps with popup images using leaflet. peerchristensen.netlify.com ( peerchristensen.netlify.com ) 

• Convert epub to Text for Processing in Rrud.is ( rud.is ) 

• Forcing Yourself to Make Your Life Easierropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• In case you missed it: March 2018 roundupblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• How to use dplyr’s mutate in R without a vectorized functiondeanattali.com ( deanattali.com ) 

• Solving the 8 queens problemcoolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ( coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ) 

• R Tip: Use match_order() to Align Datawww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Get basic summary statistics for all the variables in a data framewww.brodrigues.co ( brodrigues.co ) 

• Weighted survey data with Power BI compared to dplyr, SQL or surveyfreerangestats.info ( freerangestats.info ) 

• Neglected R Super Functionswww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Introduction to Fama Frenchrviews.rstudio.com ( rviews.rstudio.com ) 

• Generating Executable ASCII artcoolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ( coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ) 

• The case for R, for AI developersblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• An R vlookup? Not so silly ideawww.daeconomist.com ( daeconomist.com ) 

R Project Updates

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

• dput() and dump() are no longer truncating when options(deparse.max.lines = *) is set.

• Interrupts can be suspended while evaluating an expression using suspendInterrupts. Subexpression can be evaluated with interrupts enabled using allowInterrupts. These functions can be used to make sure cleanup handlers cannon be interrupted.

• R 3.5.0 includes a framework that allows packages to provide alternate representations of basic R objects (ALTREP). The framework is still experimental and may undergo changes in future R releases as more experience is gained. For now, documentationsvn.r-project.org is provided. ( svn.r-project.org ) 

• mantelhaen.test() no longer suffers from integer overflow in largish cases, thanks to Ben Bolker’s PR#17383.

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 ) 

• 7eme Rencontres Rr2018-rennes.sciencesconf.org July 5 & 6
  Rennes - Agrocampus ( r2018-rennes.sciencesconf.org ) 

• useR! 2018user2018.r-project.org July 10
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community. ( user2018.r-project.org ) 

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

Call for Participation

• CarpentryConwww.carpentrycon.org - May 30 - June 1 at University College Dublin. Conference about how to teach and communicate ideas effectively. ( carpentrycon.org ) 

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Quotes of the Week

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