R Weekly 2019-04 Videos, News, Podcast

28 Jan 2019

Highlight

• rstudio::conf 2019 Videos

• Keeping up to date with R news

• R-Podcast episode 26: The podcast trifecta - Eric is joined by podcast hosts Hilary Parker and Nick Tierney to discuss their impressions of rstudio::conf 2019 and thoughts on the future of R. Plus Eric shares his insights from the excellent Advanced R Markdown workshop.

Insights

• Quick Hit: Automating Production Graphics Uploads in R Markdown Documents with googledrive

• Back from rstudio::conf 2019

• R Conference Costs v2.0

• satRdays Newcastle 2019 Conference is Here!

• Feeling the rstudio::conf ❤️

• rstudio::conf 2019 roundup

• My Tidyverse Developers Day and RStudio::Conf Reflections!

• rstudio::conf 2019 Videos

• Keeping up to date with R news

R in the Real World

• Which planet is closest to Earth?

• Calibrating soccer odds using the caret package

• Text network analysis of Twitter data on the day of the Colombian peace agreement referendum (plebiscito).

• Walkthrough on how to query and visualise OpenStreetMap data on interactive historical maps using osmdata, tidyverse packages and Leaflet.

• In thy foul throat thou liest–Playing BS without Lying

• R Studio Conf 2019 - Easing your FOMO with R Resources

• Climate change: Modeling 140+ years of temperature data with tsibble and fable

R in Organizations

• Summer Internships 2019

Resources

• R Studio Conf 2019 - Easing your FOMO with R Resources

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

GitHub or Bitbucket

• stringfix - string manipulation in a %>% way

• isoband - R package to generate contour lines and polygons

Updated Packages

• future 1.11.0 - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone

• getTBinR - Get WHO Tuberculosis Data (now with country level TB reports).

• hrbrthemes 0.6.0

Videos and Podcasts

• R-Podcast episode 26: The podcast trifecta: In this special episode, Eric is joined by podcast hosts Hilary Parker (Not So Standard Deviations) and Nick Tierney (Credibly Curious) to discuss their impressions of rstudio::conf 2019 and thoughts on the future of R. Plus Eric shares his insights from the excellent Advanced R Markdown workshop.

Tutorials

• gather() and spread() explained by gt

• An article on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and how to use them to generate satellite imagery in R. #rstats #DeepLearning #machinelearning #satellite

• Exploring the hidden beauty of multiplication tables with R

• ggstraw::geom_straw() is a custom ggplot2 geom for showing deviations from expected values, e.g. actual vs scheduled departure times.

• Create R Markdown reports and presentations even better with these 3 practical tips

• Fully General Record Transforms with cdata

• GeoPAT2: Entropy calculations for local landscapes

• wateRinfo - Downloading tidal data to understand the behaviour of a migrating eel

• Correlated longitudinal data with varying time intervals

• Tibbles, checking examples, & character encodings

• RStudio Server on Azure

• How to prepare data for NLP (text classification) with Keras and TensorFlow

• more concentration, everywhere

• My #TidyverseDevDay and #RStudioConf 2019 Reflections!

• Docker Images for R: r-base versus r-apt

• Using Word Similarity Graphs to Explore Themes in Text: A Tutorial

• Factor Analysis in R with Psych Package: Measuring Consumer Involvement

• Data exploration with alluvial plots - An introduction to easyalluvial

• Right Now It’s KDA…Asset Allocation.

• Quick Hit: Automating Production Graphics Uploads in R Markdown Documents with googledrive

• What’s the deal with wind chill?

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.

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Quotes of the Week

Streaming arduino sensor signals right into @rstudio! I wonder if there is really anything #rstats can’t do 😎😎😎 pic.twitter.com/nT6q6TT6xc

— Hao Zhu (@haozhu233) January 25, 2019

My daughter wants to be @RLadiesGlobal. She’s 9. Tonight we made mermaid tail scales. #rstats pic.twitter.com/TBGLtV41sL

— Jeremy Allen (@jeremy_data) January 24, 2019