R Weekly 2018-28 ggplot2, Factfulness

09 Jul 2018

Highlight

• ggplot2 3.0.0 - Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics

• Factfulness: Building Gapminder Income Mountains

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• packagefinder - Search for packages from the R console

Package Releases

• ggplot2 3.0.0 - Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics

• styler 1.0.2 - Non-invasive pretty printing of R code

• tikzDevice 0.12 - R Graphics Output in LaTeX Format has a new home

• nanotime 0.2.1 - nanotime uses the RcppCCTZ package for (efficient) high(er) resolution time parsing and formatting up to nanosecond resolution

• seplyr 0.5.8 - Improved Standard Evaluation Interfaces for Common Data Manipulation Tasks

• anytime 0.3.1 - Convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered format to either POSIXct or Date objects

Insights

• One year as a subscriber to Stack Overflow

• What Should be Done When Data Have Creators?

• Current Challenges and Opportunities in Clinical Prediction Modeling

• Once in a Blue Moon, I Reached “Issue Zero” in a Github Repo

R in the Real World

• Recreating (more) data visualizations from the book “Knowledge is Beautiful”: Part III

• Markov-chaining my PhD thesis - Build your own thesis with a Markov chain that generates text snippets of jargon about rotting leaves

• Elo and EloBeta models in snooker

• Visualizing macOS App Usage with a Little Help from osqueryr & mactheknife

• Life (expectancy), animated

• Spend on petrol by income

R in Organizations

• Why R Conference

R Internationally

• Faire des cartogrammes avec R

Tutorials

• Marginal Effects for Regression Models in R

• Handling Outliers with R

• Missing data imputation and instrumental variables regression: the tidy approach

• Factfulness: Building Gapminder Income Mountains

• Speed Up Shiny Coding with Data

• Introducing kapow: an explosive but maybe irresponsible way to assign variables from objects

• Missing data imputation and instrumental variables regression: the tidy approach

• Update on Polynomial Regression in Lieu of Neural Nets

• Freeing PDF Data to Account for the Unaccounted

• Visualizing the World Cup with R: Part 2 - How the Group Tables Evolved During the Final Matchday!

• Elo and EloBeta models in snooker

• Red Flags In Data Science Interviews

• Tidily evaluated ggplot2

• More tidy evaluation with ggplot2

• Fractals with matrices - sierpinski carpet

• Exploring ways to address gaps in maternal-child health research

• seven digit addition

• Barnsley Ferns (fractal)

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 7eme Rencontres R July 5 & 6
  Rennes - Agrocampus

• useR! 2018 July 10
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.

• LatinR 2018 Sept 4-5
  Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

• Tokyo.R #71 July 15
  Tokyo, Japan.

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Quotes of the Week

👌 Dead-simple 3D surface plotting in the next version of rayshader! Apply your hillshade (or any image) to a 3D surface map. Video preview with rayshader's built-in palettes. #rstats

Code:

elmat %>%
sphere_shade() %>%
add_shadow(ray_shade(elmat)) %>%
plot_3d(elmat) pic.twitter.com/FCKQ9OSKpj

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) July 2, 2018

I love the #rstats community.
Someone is like, "oh hey peeps, I saw a big need for this mundane but difficult task that I infrequently do, so I created a package that will literally scrape the last bits of peanut butter out of the jar for you. It's called pbplyr."
What a tribe.

— Frank Elavsky ᴰᵃᵗᵃ ᵂᶦᶻᵃʳᵈ (@Frankly_Data) July 3, 2018

Bubble-grid-map of regional population change in Europe 2012 to 2017. Blue regions grow, red regions loose population. Sized by absolute number. HowTo: https://t.co/fScKDPrl4H #rstats #viz pic.twitter.com/EpJy1kickh

— Jonas Schöley (@jschoeley) July 2, 2018