R Weekly 2018-8 Environments, Diversity, Tidy Evaluation

19 Feb 2018

Highlight

• Explain R environments like I’m fivecolinfay.me ( colinfay.me ) 

• R-Podcast Episode 24: Yihui Xie Returns (rstudio::conf 2018)r-podcast.org Eric reconnects with the first-ever guest of the R-Podcast, RStudio software engineer Yihui Xie. In their conversation you’ll hear about Yihui’s journey since joining RStudio, his vision of how blogdown and bookdown could lead to a streamlined publishing worflow, and much more. ( r-podcast.org ) 

• Diversity scholarships for upcoming R conferencesblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Tidy evaluation in 5 minuteswww.youtube.com ( youtube.com ) 

R in the Real World

• How to maraaverickfy a blog post without even reading ititsalocke.com ( itsalocke.com ) 

• Using Flexdashboards to Monitor Clinical Researchjenthompson.me ( jenthompson.me ) 

• Happy Galentine’s Day!suzan.rbind.io - Tidytext analysis on selected episodes of Parks & Recreation ( suzan.rbind.io ) 

• Exploratory data Analysis of US Fatal Police Shootings Since 2015brennonborbon.wordpress.com ( brennonborbon.wordpress.com ) 

• Visualizing population growth rates and doubling times across the world with UN datakanishka.xyz ( kanishka.xyz ) 

• Map prisons in the United Stateswww.gl-li.com ( gl-li.com ) 

• Meetup “Yes” RSVP tracking and ggplot graphing using Meetup API (inspired by rladies/meetupr package)rickpackblog.wordpress.com ( rickpackblog.wordpress.com ) 

• The relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and electoral vote results - part 2www.simoncoulombe.com ( simoncoulombe.com ) 

• Pym.js Library Vulnerability in widgetframe Packagerud.is ( rud.is ) 

• How to scrap data from YouTube channels/videos with the hope to gain some statistically driven insights into the notoriety of particular online content.medium.com ( medium.com ) 

• Geocoding in NYC from Rmltconsecol.github.io ( mltconsecol.github.io ) 

• What sites do New York Times op-ed columnists link to? I used rvest, tidyverse, visNetwork to find out.etachov.io ( etachov.io ) 

Insights

• Takeaways from the RStudio Conferenceohi-science.org ( ohi-science.org ) 

• Reflection: A year of R-Ladies #LdnOnttheaknowles.com ( theaknowles.com ) 

• Recapping the best parts of the rstudio::conf 2018 in San Diego, CA.www.blue-granite.com ( blue-granite.com ) 

• Sentiment Analysis of 5 popular romantic comediesappsilondatascience.com - Short tutorial on analyzing a sentiment in romantic comedies and creating interesting data visualizations. ( appsilondatascience.com ) 

R in Organizations

• Evidence Synthesis Hackathonevidencesynthesishackathon.com ( evidencesynthesishackathon.com ) 

• Diversity scholarships for upcoming R conferencesblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Summer internsblog.rstudio.com ( rstudio.com ) 

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• cancensuscran.r-project.org - an R interface to access, retrieve, and improve working with Canadian Census data and geography. Site for documentation and examples.mountainmath.github.io ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• shinyalertcran.r-project.org - adding popup messages (modals) in Shiny. README for detailsgithub.com or click here for a demodaattali.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• future.callrcran.r-project.org - Parallel processing via futures using the callrcran.r-project.org package as the parallel backend. Can be used anywhere in the futurecran.r-project.org ecosystem, e.g. future.applycran.r-project.org and doFuturecran.r-project.org (a foreach adaptor). ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• Cluster.OBeu: Cluster Analysis ‘OpenBudgets’cran.r-project.org ( cran.r-project.org ) 

GitHub only

• ghentrgithub.com - tools to make it easier for you to build and share a private package-ecosystem using your instance of GitHub Enterprise [pkgdown siteijlyttle.github.io] ( github.com ) 

Package Releases

• future 1.7.0cran.r-project.org - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone - now with even less friction and more power to the end user and the developer. … and future_lapply() has moved to the future.applycran.r-project.org package. ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• matrixStats 0.53.1cran.r-project.org - Functions that Apply to Rows and Columns of Matrices (and to Vectors) ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• BH 1.66.0-1dirk.eddelbuettel.com - provides a sizeable portion of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for R ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 

• tidygraph 1.1www.data-imaginist.com - A Tidy API for Graph Manipulation ( data-imaginist.com ) 

Videos and Podcasts

• Tidy evaluation in 5 minuteswww.youtube.com ( youtube.com ) 

• NSSD NO.54: Soft Spot for Microsoftnssdeviations.com Hilary and Roger follow up on his talk at WEHI and the discussion on intelligence analysts. They also discuss Microsoft’s R-related tools, movie spoilers, and other miscellaneous topics. ( nssdeviations.com ) 

• DataFramed Ep9: Data Science and Online Experiments at Etsy.www.datacamp.com Discover how data science and online experiments impact business and decision making at Etsy. Hugo Bowne-Anderson’stwitter.com interview with @Emily Robinsontwitter.com. ( datacamp.com ) 

• R-Podcast Episode 24: Yihui Xie Returns (rstudio::conf 2018)r-podcast.org Eric reconnects with the first-ever guest of the R-Podcast, RStudio software engineer Yihui Xie. In their conversation you’ll hear about Yihui’s journey since joining RStudio, his vision of how blogdown and bookdown could lead to a streamlined publishing worflow, and much more. ( r-podcast.org ) 

R Internationally

• Itération de fonctions avec purrrperso.ens-lyon.fr - Tutorial on purrr in French ( perso.ens-lyon.fr ) 

Tutorials

• Deep learning at rstudio::conf 2018rviews.rstudio.com ( rviews.rstudio.com ) 

• Explain R environments like I’m fivecolinfay.me ( colinfay.me ) 

• a use-case for shiny modules for downloadable plotswww.ildiczeller.com ( ildiczeller.com ) 

• ggplot2 features for visualizing the NHANES datadatascienceplus.com ( datascienceplus.com ) 

• [How to] Build an API wrapper package in 10 minutes.colinfay.me ( colinfay.me ) 

• Multilevel Modeling in R with NHL Power Play Datamattkmiecik.com ( mattkmiecik.com ) 

• On struggling with aes(): an intro to writing functions with ggplot outputskatiejolly.io ( katiejolly.io ) 

• Introducing tidyLPA (an R package for carrying out Latent Profile Analysis)jrosen48.github.io ( jrosen48.github.io ) 

• Basic Relational Database Functionsannamarbut.blogspot.com ( annamarbut.blogspot.com ) 

• This post tells the story of how we developed Liss, an AI for sentiment analysis in Luxembourguish trained on more than 50 000 movie reviews. blog.rdata.lu ( rdata.lu ) 

• Getting Started with Geocoding for NYC in R using the new NYC GeoSearch toolmltconsecol.github.io ( mltconsecol.github.io ) 

• A tutorial on visualizing negative space in a meaningful way, using fish encounter historiesfishsciences.github.io ( fishsciences.github.io ) 

• A gentle introduction to tidy descriptive statistics, ANOVAs, and publication-style graphics in R towardsdatascience.com ( towardsdatascience.com ) 

• Using Flexdashboards to Monitor Clinical Researchjenthompson.me ( jenthompson.me ) 

• Using the ‘breaks’ argument in ggplot to drop items from legends, with some background and a possible contribution to the ggplot2 documentation.luisdva.github.io ( luisdva.github.io ) 

• Predicting job search by training a random forest on an unbalanced datasetwww.brodrigues.co ( brodrigues.co ) 

• tfestimators - Package: Embeddings for Categorical Variablesflovv.github.io ( flovv.github.io ) 

• Evaluating R code from potentially malicious sourcescoolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ( coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ) 

• The relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and electoral vote results - part 2 : get census data and plot the resultswww.simoncoulombe.com ( simoncoulombe.com ) 

• Tidy evaluation in 5 minswww.youtube.com ( youtube.com ) 

• Is 10,000 Cells Big?www.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Evaluating R code from potentially malicious sources Part 4coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ( coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ) 

• Support for hOCR and Tesseract 4 in Rropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• shinyalert: Easily create pretty popup messages (modals) in Shinydeanattali.com ( deanattali.com ) 

• What does Microsoft do with R?blog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning: Exploring Brexit with PLS and PCAfeedproxy.google.com ( feedproxy.google.com ) 

• Population growth and Doubling times with tidyversekanishka.xyz ( kanishka.xyz ) 

• Introducing tidyLPA (an R package for carrying out Latent Profile Analysis)jrosen48.github.io ( jrosen48.github.io ) 

• chull()coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ( coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ) 

• We Want to be Playing with a Moderate Number of Powerful Blockswww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• neo4j gRaphsgithub.com - Rmarkdown to start playing with Neo4j in R. Importing data, making queries and graph analytics in a R+Neo4j workflow. ( github.com ) 

• convex hulls part 2coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ( coolbutuseless.bitbucket.io ) 

• A fresh look for base graphicsblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Importing 30GB of data in R with sparklyrwww.brodrigues.co ( brodrigues.co ) 

• Because it’s Friday: Hold the Doorblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Books I liked in 2017ellisp.github.io ( ellisp.github.io ) 

R Project Updates

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

• Finalizers are now run with interrupts suspended.

Upcoming Events

• satRday Cape Town 2018 March 17
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• 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, 2018 Portland, OR, US ( cascadiarconf.com ) 

• 7eme Rencontres Rr2018-rennes.sciencesconf.org 5 & 6 July 2018
  Rennes - Agrocampus ( r2018-rennes.sciencesconf.org ) 

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

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• Head of BI at German publishing companymitarbeiterwerben.vnrag.de ( mitarbeiterwerben.vnrag.de ) 

Call for Participation

• rOpenSci unconf18 self-nominations, deadline 2018/03/08ropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• Rladies NYC Event on Feb 15, 2018www.meetup.com Creating Websites in R and A Data Science Update. Check out more on http://www.rladiesnyc.org ( meetup.com ) 

• R-Ladies NYC April 2018 Book Clubwww.goodreads.com R-Ladies NYC are still gathering suggestions for the bookclub. ( goodreads.com ) 

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