R Weekly 2020-03, Rprofile, Feller's coin

20 Jan 2020

Release Date: 2020-01-20

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

Highlights

• Customising your Rprofile

• Feller’s coin tossing puzzle: tidy simulation in R

Insights

• Debugging and Fixing CRAN’s ‘Additional Checks’ errors

• A Journey into a Team’s Workflows

R in the Real World

• Mapping World Languages’ Difficulty Relative to English

• Record Dec temperature and snow in Scotland

R in Academia

• On Cochran Theorem (and Orthogonal Projections)

• On the conjugate function

• RNA Velocity Analysis (In Situ) - Tutorial and Tips

Resources

• Biomedical Data Science Textbook Available

• R Markdown and Bookdown for Academic Writing in R

• “Tidy data” chapter of “R for Data Science” now using tidyr::pivot_wider() and tidyr::pivot_longer()

• Introduction to R - This repository contains the documentation, background material, scripts, and data for a tutorial on the Introduction to R. This introductory workshop is greared towards people with a interest/ background in geography and environmental science.

• David Robinson Screencast Annotations

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• nse2r - Fetch data from National Stock Exchange, India

GitHub or Bitbucket

• cicerone - Provide guided tours of Shiny apps.

• lemis - R package providing access to data on wildlife imports into the United States

• ddd - A Realistic Guide to Making Data Available Alongside Code to Improve Reproducibility.

• ggridges - Ridgeline plots in ggplot2

• ggrough - ggrough is an R package that converts your ggplot2 plots to rough/sketchy charts, using the excellent javascript roughjs library.

Updated Packages

• datapasta 3.1.0: Datapasta in the cloud

• RQuantLib 0.4.11: More polish

• RcppRedis 0.1.10: Switch to tinytest

• pointblank 0.3

• queryparser 0.2.0

Videos and Podcasts

• Not So Standard Deviations: Don’t Do What You Like

R Internationally

• How to get the Légion d’honneur in 10 steps

Tutorials

• Introducing googleCloudRunner - serverless R on Google Cloud Platform

• How to reverse engineer a heat map into its underlying values

• Sudoku game with R

• Convert Apple Card PDF Statements to Tidy Data (i.e. for CSV/Excel/database export)

• No Framework, No Problem! Structuring your project folder and creating custom Shiny components

• OMG O2G!

• How to import Python classes into R

• Business Case Analysis with R (Guest Post)

• Exploring the tightened EU CO2 emission standards for cars in 2020

• Customising your Rprofile

• Feller’s coin tossing puzzle: tidy simulation in R

• Skew who?

• santoku - a visual introduction

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

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

• LondonR & R-Ladies to host ‘watch party’ at RStudio Conference, Jan 29th

• Tidyverse Dev Day, January 31

• Intro to R for Plant Pathologists, Feb 19

• satRday Johannesburg 2020

• 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.

Jobs

Data Scientist position at RStudio

Call for Participation

• eRum 2020 call for speakers (ends 29 Jan 2020)

• useR! 2020 European Hub, call for tutorials (ends February 16th, 2020)

• EARL London 2020 call for abstracts

• satRday Johannesburg 2020 call for papers

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

A thread of classifiers learning a decision rule. Dashed line is optimal boundary. Animations with #gganimate by @thomasp85 and @drob. #rstats

Logistic regression {stats::glm} with each class having normally distributed features. (1/n) pic.twitter.com/kKmqdO2zGy

— Ryan Holbrook (@ryanpholbrook) January 18, 2020

Excited to say that #spotifyr has officially made its way into the @Spotify app! This week we launched an A/B test featuring data pulled straight from #spotifyr https://t.co/9xuCsSA6zj#rstats #DataScience

— Charlie Thompson (@_RCharlie) January 17, 2020