R Weekly 2019-14 Shiny Contest, usethis for reporting

08 Apr 2019

Highlight

• Winners of the 1st Shiny Contest

• usethis for reporting

• Red/Blue Analglyphs with ggplot2 and ggthreed

• opencv Bindings to ‘OpenCV’ Computer Vision Library

Insights

• HCL-Based Color Palettes in grDevices

• Musings on missing data

• Standard Evaluation Versus Non-Standard Evaluation in R

R in the Real World

• Red/Blue Analglyphs with ggplot2 and ggthreed

• ‘Speaking as a…’: An Inquiry into Twitter Identities and Mansplaining

• Exploration of Foreign Direct Investment of Nepal

• Calculating the distance to the sea in R

• Kaggle survey 2018: Maps of programming languages used and repartition of reproducibility issues

• An inquiry into Twitter identities and mansplaining

• Wicked Fast, Accurate Quantiles Using ‘t-Digests’ in R with the {tdigest} Package

• C++ is Often Used in R Packages

• Why RcppDynProg is Written in C++

• What are the Popular R Packages?

R in Organizations

• Winners of the 1st Shiny Contest

• RInside Help in Testing

R in Academia

• Getting your toes wet in R: Hydrology, meteorology, and more

Resources

• CDSB Workshop 2019: How to Build and Create Tidy Tools

• A set of shiny apps for interactive data analysis and teaching.

• Interview with Abhi Datta

• R Markdown in Vim

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• AzureGraph Simple Interface to ‘Microsoft Graph’

• opencv - Bindings to ‘OpenCV’ Computer Vision Library

• SparkR - R Front End for ‘Apache Spark’

GitHub or Bitbucket

• popcircle

Updated Packages

• mapedit 0.5.0

• tint 0.1.1: New Styles

• ggdebug - v0.1.1

Tutorials

• Using svglite with web fonts by @ellis2013nz

• Scatter plots, best fit lines (and regression to the mean)

• usethis for reporting

• mapedit 0.5.0 and leaflet.pm

• I Hate Mondays! Execute .First() from .Rprofile on first login of the (Mon)day only

• Create Trending Animated Bar Charts using R

• A unified syntax for accessing models’ information

• Making Sense of Simulation Models with Metamodels Part 1 - Low-Order Polynomials with Arena and R

• Structure plots with ggplot2

• Where to find Sports data?

• Don’t forget the “utils” package in R

• Euler Problem 1 In R

• A data.table and dplyr tour

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

CHANGES IN R 3.6.0:

• Make macro ‘F77_VISIBILITY’ have been removed and replaced by ‘F_VISIBILITY’.

• Make macros ‘F77’, ‘FCPIFCPLAGS’ and ‘SHLIB_OPENMP_FCFLAGS’ have been removed and replaced by ‘FC’, ‘FPICFLAGS’ and ‘SHLIB_OPENMP_FFLAGS’ respectively. [‘F77’ has been reverted until Apr 15.]

• ‘as.matrix.data.frame()’ now produces better strings from logicals, thanks to PR#17548 from Gabe Becker.

• ‘R CMD build’ now removes ‘src/*.mod’ files on all platforms.
• ‘R_unif_index’ is now considered to be part of the C API.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• The Uncoast Unconference - 14th to 16th April

• Tokyo.R #77 - 13th 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.

Datasets

• Where to find Sports data?

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

the only good thing about mondays is the 20 tabs in my browser opened form @rweekly_org </br> – renata gerecke Apr 1st

An R-hub blog post as one of @rweekly_org’s highlights of last week! – R-hub Apr 2nd

My second session for #Cairo #R #meetup about #Feature_Engineering in #R in 13th of April https://www.facebook.com/tafranetwork/photos/a.309107492898659/603612940114778/?type=3&theater @AfricaRUsers @rweekly_org @R4DScommunity </br> – Mohammed Ali Apr 4th