R Weekly 2019-31 recover(), Facebook political ads, TokyoR

05 Aug 2019

This week’s release was curated by Ryo Nakagawara, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Release Date: 2019-08-05

Highlight

• stop() - breathe - recover(): Debugging Techniques in R!

• The Use of Political Ads on Facebook in the Run-up to the European Parliament Elections 2019 in Austria

• 80th TokyoR Meetup Roundup: Econometrics vs. ML, Python with R, & Translating tidyverse.org into Japanese!

Insights

• Rmd first: When development starts with documentation

• dependency parsing with {udpipe}

• 80th TokyoR Meetup Roundup: Econometrics vs. ML, Python with R, & Translating tidyverse.org into Japanese!

• Rant about Dependencies: Reflection on #tinyverse vs #tidyverse and #rstats vs #python

• Data Chats: An Interview with Avision Ho

R in the Real World

• The Use of Political Ads on Facebook in the Run-up to the European Parliament Elections 2019 in Austria

• Burden of roof: revisiting housing costs with {tidycensus}

• Estimating important things with public data

• All Road Lead to Rome

• Visualizing Locke and Mill: A {tidytext} analysis

R in Organizations

• {mlr3} (Machine Learning in R) - Initial release

R in Academia

• Simulating pluralism: the language of democracy in hegemonic authoritarianism - Maerz, S. F. (2019)

• {revtools}: An R package to support article screening for evidence synthesis - Westgate, M. J. (2019)

Resources

• Shiny app: Teaching sampling from distributions with R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {mlr3 0.1.1}: Efficient, Object-oriented Programming on the Building Blocks of Machine Learning

• {mlr3misc 0.1.1}: Helper Functions for {mlr3}

• {paradox 0.1.0}: Define and Work with Parameter Spaces for Complex Algorithms

• {idmodelr 0.3.0}: Infectious Disease Model Library and Utilities

• {gitignore 0.1.3}: Provides a simple R Interface to the gitignore.io API

• {apexcharter 0.1.1}: htmlwidget for apexcharts.js

• {stplanr}: Sustainable Transport Planning with R

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {demoR}: Code highlighting in presentations

• {bunny}: Useful helper functions for {magick}

• {armacmp}: Create a DSL to formulate linear algebra code in R that is compiled to C++ using the ARmadillo Template Library

• {titanicon}: Titanic animated icons to Shiny and Rmarkdown

Updated Packages

• {udpipe 0.8.3}

• {RSQLite 2.1.2}

• {tidytext 0.2.2}

• {hrbraddins}

Videos and Podcasts

• stop() - breathe - recover(): Debugging Techniques in R!

• R-Podcast Episode 31 - Data Science Education with R: Eric shares insights gained from the JSM 2019 conference and is joined by RStudio’s education team members Alison Hill & Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel to discuss new ideas for teaching data science effectively, as well as how tools like R-Markdown are opening many new possibilities for both students and teachers.

Tutorials

• Beyond Plot Labels: Hacking {gganimate}’s Frame Variables

• How to embed Excel-like Spreadsheet Table in RMarkdown with {excelR}

• Validating Type I and II Errors in A/B Tests in R

• Introducing the {funneljoin} package

• A History of Polar Area / Coxcomb / Rose charts & how to make them in R’s {ggplot2}

• Miracles with {magick} and {bunny}

• From H2O to POJO Models: Getting Started with a Minimal Example

• Textures and geometric shapes (12 Months of aRt, July)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Mexico CDSB Workshop 2019, July 29 - August 2 - How to Build and Create Tidy Tools

• R/Pharma Conference 2019, August 21 - 23

• R/Medicine 2019, September 12 - 14

• LatinR 2019, Santiago de Chile, September 25 - 27 - Latinamerican Conference About the Use of R in R&D

• 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

• “Women in Parliament” data set

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

I’m so excited to see my friend and colleague @hadleywickham honored with the 2019 COPSS award at #JSM2019 #rstats 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/sqc2nBqoXt

— Jenny Bryan (@JennyBryan) July 31, 2019

This is wild. Solomon Kurz has “ported” @rlmcelreath _Statistical Rethinking_ to use brms & Tidyverse. And made the ported book open source. #rstats https://t.co/NcklzifvDH Statistical Rethinking with brms, ggplot2, and the tidyverse - bookdown

— JD Long (@CMastication) July 28, 2019

Windows #rstats users: did you know make screenshots directly from R on Windows using image_read("screenshot:") in the magick package? Make them extra fancy with the new image_shadow() function. pic.twitter.com/ZxakavszRL

— Jeroen Ooms (@opencpu) July 27, 2019