R Weekly 2018-31 Gifski, Question, Educator

30 Jul 2018

Highlight

• Gifski - the fastest GIF encoder in the universe

• Where to get help with your R question?

• rOpenSci Educators Collaborative: What Educational Resources Work Well and Why?

• Should R Consortium Recommend CII Best Practices Badge for R Packages: Latest Survey Results

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• fpeek: Check Text Files Content at a Glance

• Gifski - the fastest GIF encoder in the universe

Package Releases

• future 1.9.0 - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone. A major milestone release: Standard output is now relayed back to the master R session.

• Rcpp 0.12.18: Another batch of updates

Insights

• The Revamped bookdown.org Website

• Where to get help with your R question?

• rOpenSci Educators Collaborative: What Educational Resources Work Well and Why?

• rOpenSci Educators Collaborative: What Are The Challenges When Teaching Science With R?

• rOpenSci Educators Collaborative: How Can We Develop a Community of Innovative R Educators?

R in Organizations

• Interview R/Medicine 2018 conference organizer Micheal Kane

• Hacking our way through UpSetR

• LIBD rstats club remote useR!2018 notes

• Should R Consortium Recommend CII Best Practices Badge for R Packages: Latest Survey Results

• Announcing the 1st Bookdown Contest

• No worries! Afterthoughts from UseR 2018

R in the Real World

• autoSmry update 1 now live - autoSmry is a R tool I created that tries to find the most important sentences in an article

• Using satellite temperature data from the University of Alabama in Huntsville to look at global temperatures over the last 40 years.

• Really old R

• A post comparing the use of bubble grids and choropleths for visual encoding of geo-spatial data (using the sf functionality of ggplot2 v3!).

Tutorials

• future 1.9.0 - Output from The Future

• R.devices - Into the Void

• Animating the Goals of the World Cup with R: Comparing the old vs. new gganimate & tweenr API!

• Whether to use a data frame in R?

• External presentation goal

• Comments on data analysis workflow

• AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: July 2018

• Amazon’s Hanging Cable Problem (Golden Gate Edition)

• The Best Way to Support LaTeX Math in Markdown with MathJax

• A quick tour of AI services in Azure

• Shortest unique prefix - it’s a builtin function

• Make better maps in R with vector tiles

• Animating the Goals of the World Cup: Comparing the old vs. new gganimate and tweenr API!

• Slowly but Steadily, They Started to Help Me Answer Questions

• Thoughts on writing “AI in Actuarial Science”

• How to use rquery with Apache Spark on Databricks

• Partitioning the Variation in Data

• My old coding products

• unpipe - rewriting an expression without the pipes

• Arthur blinked, Ford shrugs, but Zaphod leapt; text as graph

• REST APIs and Plumber

• Using themes in ggplot2

• Maps with inlmisc

• Machine Learning Results in R: one plot to rule them all! (Part 2 – Regression Models)

• Real-time data visualization using R and data extracting from SQL Server

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• SatRday Aug 31-Sept 1
  Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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

• Econometrics and Statistics using R Sept 10-14
  Lisbon, Portugal.

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

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Quotes of the Week

Truth #rstats pic.twitter.com/2YNApUZtCu

— Sam Williams (@_sam_williams_) July 27, 2018

Had no idea that you could pull a Google map in one line of code and use ggplot2 to add layers to it until @LittleMissData just blew my mind. 💯 #rstats pic.twitter.com/41E4Gf2rDY

— Caitlin Hudon👩🏼‍💻 (@beeonaposy) July 26, 2018

1/4
“So that plot is an—“
“Yep, elevation map.”
“And this plot is also a—“
“Yep, also an elevation map.”
“So are you seriously telling me you turned all these plots into—“
“Elevation maps. It’s elevation maps all the way down.”

Preview: 3D ggplots w/🕶️#rayshader 😉#rstats pic.twitter.com/9boxiRzOzr

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) July 23, 2018