R Weekly 2019-07 Flipbook, package building

18 Feb 2019

Highlights

• The ggplot2 flipbook

• Package Building: How DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE, roxygen, and devtools::document work together

Insights

• “Correlation is not causation”. So what is?

• Most popular machine learning R packages – part 2

• Mastering your day as a programmer

Resources

• ggplot2 extensions gallery

• R for Journalism

• R for Political Data

R in the Real World

• What Do Freelance Writers Make?

• Trump tweet time

• How did Axios rectangle Trump’s PDF schedule? A try with R

• Liverpool is the Most Popular City in the World (relative to use as password per inhabitant)

• Text mining the EU withdrawal bill Hansard II

• R for Political Data Science Week 7: The 2020 Twitter Primary

• Visualizing Brooklyn Nine-Nine with R!

• Use algebra and calculus with R and yacas to find Chidi’s optimal level of pizza and frozen yogurt consumption

• H-indexes of CRAN package maintainers. Search your own.

R in Organizations

• Community Call Follow-up - Governance of Open Source Research Software Organizationss

R in Academia

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• shinyalert: Easily create pretty popup messages (modals) in Shiny

• olsrr, a set of tools for improved output from linear regression models, designed keeping in mind beginner/intermediate R users.

• Introducing tidyLPA (an R package for carrying out Latent Profile Analysis)

• Using the ropendata R Package to Access Petabytes of Free Internet Telemetry Data from Rapid7

• Announcing the First Release of noaaoceans

• sdpt3r: Semi-Definite Quadratic Linear Programming Solver

• sparsenet: Fit Sparse Linear Regression Models via Nonconvex Optimization

• calendar: Create, Read, Write, and Work with ‘iCalander’ Files, Calendarsand Scheduling Data

• TmCalculator: Melting Temperature of Nucleic Acid Sequences

• Rfssa: Functional Singular Spectrum Analysis

• expSBM: An Exponential Stochastic Block Model for Interaction Lengths

• IrregLong: Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Irregular Observation Times

• CB2: CRISPR Pooled Screen Analysis using Beta-Binomial Test

• matsindf: Matrices in data frames

• leiden: Implementation of the ‘Python leidenalg’ Module

• metaMix: Bayesian Mixture Analysis for Metagenomic Community Profiling

• rrum: Bayesian Estimation of the Reduced Reparameterized Unified Modelwith Gibbs Sampling

• uclust: Clustering and Classification Inference with U-Statistics

• rPACI: Placido Analysis of Corneal Irregularity

• HRW: Datasets, Functions and Scripts for Semiparametric Regression Supporting Harezlak, Ruppert & Wand (2018)

• Ropj: Import Origin(R) Project Files

• cgwtools: Miscellaneous Tools

• rosr: Create Reproducible Research Projects

• ptmixed: Poisson-Tweedie Generalized Linear Mixed Model

• Claddis: Measuring Morphological Diversity and Evolutionary Tempo

• seedwater: Models for Drying and Soaking Kinetics of Seeds

• EGRETci: Exploration and Graphics for RivEr Trends Confidence Intervals

• rcitoid: Client for ‘Citoid’

• tidystopwords: Customizable Lists of Stopwords in 53 Languages

• fxtract: Feature Extraction from Grouped Data

• ICD10gm: Metadata Processing for the German Modification of the ICD-10Coding System

• mRMRe: Parallelized Minimum Redundancy, Maximum Relevance (mRMR)Ensemble Feature Selection

• mlbgameday: Tools to Gather Data from Major League Baseball Advanced Media

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

GitHub or Bitbucket

• VapoRwave: Featuring three vaporwave ggplot2 themes and 13 (lucky) color palettes 🏂

• ghactions, GitHub actions for R and accompanying R package.

• cbrt, provides functions for finding, and downloading data from the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey’s database (more than 22,000 time series variables on Turkish economy).

Updated Packages

• staplr, toolkit to manipulate PDF files.

• vcr - Record test suite ‘HTTP’ requests and replays them during future runs.

• A Major Upgrade of the V8 package

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD Episode 74 - I Draw the Line at Fans: Hilary and Roger discuss Roger’s foray into cloud computing and how they determine whether they can trust an algorithm or R package. Also, a bonus discussion of the state of data science as a field.

• R-Podcast Episode 27 - Get the {gt} Tables!: Eric shares a behind-the-scenes look at his rstudio::conf 2019 presentation about Shiny modules, and talks to RStudio software engineer Rich Iannone about his journey from atmospheric science to creating the DiagrammeR and gt packages.

Tutorials

• Inserting “Edit on GitHub” Buttons in a Single R Markdown Document

• Web Scraping 🕸️🤖 Google Sheets with RSelenium

• Writing Text in Minecraft with R

• Coupling Web scraping with Functional Programming in R for scale

• cdata Control Table Keys

• Quick Hit: Speeding Up a Slow/Mundane Task with a Little Rcpp

• Investigating words distribution with R – Zipf’s law

• 8 out of 10 cats does countdown - part 2

• object of type ‘closure’ is not(?) subsettable

• A Shiny app for your perfect circle

• Anatomy of a logistic growth curve

• tfestimators - Package: Embeddings for Categorical Variables

• Connecting R and arduino wirelessly through websockets

• Verbose data.table and uncovering hidden cedta’s data table awareness decisions

• Query Generation in R

• Excel email address cleaner & aggregator in R (#readxl, #openxlsx)

• Meetup API tracking in R (Part 1) - Analytics>Forward in RTP, NC

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Staged Install

• R CMD check has more comprehensive checks on the data directory and the functioning of `data() in a package.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• satRday Paris - 23rd February

• satRday Johannesburg - 6th April

• satRday Newcastle - 6th April

• satRday Los Angeles - 6th April

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Jobs

• RStudio Summer interns, application deadline 02/22

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

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Iris data forgettable.
Objects of type closure,
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