R Weekly 2019-02 leafgl, purrr, timing, docker, vitae

14 Jan 2019

Highlight

• leafgl — An R package for fast web gl rendering of features on leaflet maps

• Going Off the Map: Exploring purrr’s Other Functions

• Timing the Same Algorithm in R, Python, and C++

• An Introduction to Docker for R Users

• vitae

Insights

• Timing the Same Algorithm in R, Python, and C++

• An even better rOpenSci website with Hugo

• Who is the greatest finisher in soccer?

• Friday follow-up: inspiration for an interactive look at unemployment

• R Tip: Use seqi() For Indexes

• Updated Review: jamovi User Interface to R

• Making R code over 100 times faster: An example

• French Baccalaureate Results

• Exploring the hidden beauty of multiplication tables with R

• Optimise your new year diet with >8000 scraped food nutrition and prices, crosstalk and plotly (renders slowly, lots of interactive data, best on a laptop or desktop)

• Map GOOGLE PHOTOS on google maps using leaflet

R in Organizations

• Alternative approaches to scaling Shiny with RStudio Shiny Server, ShinyProxy or custom architecture.

Resources

• An Introduction to Docker for R Users

• An R course for marketing students

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• vitae - Automate your CV with vitae

• AzureR packages now on CRAN

• wdpar: Interface to the World Database on Protected Areas

• tor: Import Multiple Files From a Single Directory at Once

GitHub or Bitbucket

• posterdown - Use RMarkdown to generate Latex PDF Conference Posters

• The csv files of Destatis, the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, don’t comply with common standards if a tidy, ready-to-use machine-readable dataset. This package helps to jump start the data analysis by assuming time-consuming cleaning tasks.

• leafgl — An R package for fast web gl rendering of features on leaflet maps

• destatiscleanr - Imports and cleans data from official German statistical offices to jump-start the data analysis

• pointdexter - Labels longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates located inside a polygon

Updated Packages

• doFuture 0.7.0 - A Universal Foreach Parallel Adapter using the Future API of the ‘future’ Package (blog post)

• future.batchtools 0.7.2 - A Future API for Parallel and Distributed Processing using ‘batchtools’ (see above ‘blog post’)

• future.BatchJobs 0.16.1 - A Future API for Parallel and Distributed Processing using ‘BatchJobs’ (see above ‘blog post’)

• future.callr 0.4.0 - A Future API for Parallel Processing using ‘callr’ (see above ‘blog post’)

• Import ragged data with readr::melt_csv()

• On the Road to 0.8.0 — Some Additional New Features Coming in the sergeant Package

• Waffle Geoms & Other Miscellaneous In-Development Package Updates

• pinp 0.0.7: More small YAML options

• haven 2.0.0

R Internationally

• Introducción a los Modelos de Regresión en R

• Los bucles de la familia apply

• Gérer les dates et les heures avec le package lubridate

Tutorials

• Getting started with TensorFlow Probability from R

• Visualizing the Asian Cup with R!

• Going Off the Map: Exploring purrr’s Other Functions

• Parallelize a For-Loop by Rewriting it as an Lapply Call

• Using R to download missing photos from JSON files after incorrect Google Takeout.

• Animating shot distances in NBA games.

• Optimise your new year diet with >8000 scraped food nutrition and prices, crosstalk and plotly (renders slowly, lots of interactive data, best on a laptop or desktop)

• Map GOOGLE PHOTOS on google maps using leaflet.

• gganimation for the nation

• Generating sample donors & gift data for nonprofits

• How To Combine Multiple Ggplot Plots To Make Publication-Ready Plots

• Add a static pdf vignette to an R package

• A Tip to Debug ggplot2

• [Linguistic Signals of Album Quality: A Predictive Analysis of Pitchfork Review Scores Using Quanteda]

• 10 years of playback history on Last.FM: “Just sit back and listen”

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• satRday Paris - 23rd february

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

• Announcing the 1st Shiny Contest

• Women’s Package Development Workshop - by R-Ladies Chicago and Forwards: Curious about package development, but not sure where to start? This workshop is for you! Run by R-Ladies Chicago, the goal of this workshop is to empower you to start contributing back to the R ecosystem with package development. Applications are now open! Deadline: 1/15/19 for out-of-town attendees, 2/2/19 for Chicago-based attendees.

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Quotes of the Week

‼️‼️ LOOK WHAT'S COMING TO RAYSHADER! I took this video last night. Intrigued? Excited? Want to learn more? Be the first to preview the new features coming in the next few months to #rayshader at my RStudio::conf talk next week!

📅⏰ Thursday at 4:24 PM#rstats #rstudioconf pic.twitter.com/qFxcc77aKv

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) January 11, 2019

Procrastination achievement of late afternoon: automatically add letter labels before your facet labels in #ggplot2 for helping to make publication ready plots. Works with different numbers of facets automatically. Gist here: https://t.co/khPimunxpw #rstats #ECRchat pic.twitter.com/aBGrMuiZvG

— Daniel Padfield (@padpadpadpad) January 8, 2019