R Weekly 2020-02 tidylog, Forwards Southern Africa

13 Jan 2020

Release Date: 2020-01-13

This week’s release was curated by Maëlle Salmon, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.

Highlights

• tidylog, feedback for dplyr and tidyr commands

• Forwards Southern Africa Project 2020: Help us put on R workshops and meetups in Southern Africa to support the development of the local R community. (crowdfunding)

Insights

• From Shock to Competence: How Not to Panic When You Receive E-mail from CRAN about Failed Checks

• Overfitting: a guided tour

R in the Real World

• Quick Time Series Analysis of the CCI30 Cryptocurrency Index

• Twitter in collage: a year in the life of a freshman Congresswoman

• The ‘Spelling Bee Honeycomb’ puzzle: efficient computation in R

• How to use your Garmin watch to tell your team you’re going for a run

• Counting Days in Canada: Using ggmap to track time spent in Canada

Resources

• Open materials for teaching reproducible research by the psyTeachR team at the University of Glasgow School of Psychology.

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

GitHub or Bitbucket

• browse, Navigate and generate links to remote files

• ravelRy, an interface to the Ravelry API

• sessionDiffo, Compare sessionInfos in a smooth way

• tweetbotornot2, Detect Twitter Bots – Accurate AND Fast!

• slackteams, Manage and Interact with multiple Slack teams in R

• glueformula, simply build regression formulas from vectors with variable names

• podlover, Get and analyze download stats from the Wordpress podcasting add-on “Podlove Publisher”

• flashcards, Test Hebrew vocab

Updated Packages

• tidylog, feedback for dplyr and tidyr commands

• heatmaply 1.0.0 – beautiful interactive cluster heatmaps in R

• BH 1.72.0-3 on CRAN

• New vtreat Feature: Nested Model Bias Warning

R Internationally

• Données manquantes – causes, identification et imputation

• Sneak peek of {ggplot2 3.3.0} (Japanese)

Tutorials

• Building Color Palette Proofs of Concept with purrr and ggplot2

• Use {patchwork} and R Markdown for multi-image slide layouts in PowerPoint

• Exploring the Curse of Dimensionality - Part I.

• Daily Volumes, Holidays and BLS Reports

• Vignette: Podlover – A Package to Analyze Podcasting Data

• Psst, don’t tell anybody: The World is getting more rational!

• How to create Bar Race Animation Charts in R

• Working with Windows CMD system commands in R

• Complex coloring and contour levels

• Visual Testing for Graphics in R

• Exploring tidyr pivot_longer function on water chemistry data.

• Efficient iterations in R

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• {golem} live coding - 2020-01-13 21.00 Paris time

• Thinking about rstudio::conf 2020? See the full conference schedule!

• Tidyverse Dev Day, January 31

• satRday Newcastle upon Tyne, April the 4th, Call for speakers for #satRdayNCL closes 31st Jan.

• 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

• Aviation Data

Call for Participation

• Forwards Southern Africa Project 2020: Help us put on R workshops and meetups in Southern Africa to support the development of the local R community. (crowdfunding)

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

When CRAN opens the doors after the holidays ...

155 #rstats packages in the 'pretest' stage right now pic.twitter.com/on2A7L0im1

— Henrik Bengtsson (@henrikbengtsson) January 7, 2020

Words of wisdom from @allison_horst to her data analysis class this quarter: You don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car safely, and you don't need to be a computer scientist or developer to use R safely. #rstats #tidytuesday

— Amelia Ritger (@ameliaritger) January 7, 2020