Issue 27

28 Nov 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• Announcing ggforce: Accelerating ggplot2

• DataChats Episode 1 - An Interview With Max Kuhn, Creator of Caret

• Eight visualisation challenges with ggplot2

Tutorials

• Launch RStudio Server in the Google Cloud with two lines of R

• Choosing which method to use for “optimizing” functions

• Lord’s Paradox in R

• Reading data from google sheets into R

• R Phone Home: Notifications with pushoverr

• An extensive tutorial of D3partitionR 0.2

• Deploying R, RStudio and Shiny applications on Unbuntu Server

• LR03: Residuals and RMSE

• Tracking progress in R

• “smooth” package for R. es() function. Part III. Multiplicative models

• Use Rstats to Share Google Map Stars with Friends

• Determine optimal cutpoints for numerical variables in survival plots

• Reading data from google sheets into R

• RStanARM basics: visualizing uncertainty in linear regression

• MySql in a container

• Popularity of Baby Names Since 1880

• Accessing ensemble weather models with rNOMADS

• Calculating AUC: the area under a ROC Curve

• RStudio Server on OS X Sierra

• Create an interactive web map with geotagged photos

R in the Real World

• Declining sea ice in the Arctic

• Earthquake energy over time

• Crime Analysis – Denver-Part 2

• Analysing the Gilmore Girls’ coffee addiction with R

• The 5 most popular R packages

• Reproducible Finance with R: A Sharpe Ratio Shiny App

International R

• Data & Vinyles — Exploration d’une bibliothèque Discogs avec R - English (auto-translate)

• #RStats — 3 livres à lire en novembre - English (auto-translate)

R in Organization

• How-to organize a satRday conference (v0.1)

• Tutorial: Build a live rental prediction service with SQL Server R Services

• RL10N hits its first milestone - R is gradually taking over the world (of data analysis). However, proficiency in English remains a prerequisite for effectively working with R.

Videos and Podcasts

• DataChats Episode 1 - An Interview With Max Kuhn, Creator of Caret

Resources

• Eight visualisation challenges with ggplot2

• Top Books on Time Series Forecasting With R

• Learning R programming by reading books: A book list #rstats

New Packages and Tools

• RLightGBM - R interface to Light Gradient Boosting Machine library.

• replyr - Convenience functions for working in R with tbl and dplyr.

• ggforce - Announcing ggforce: Accelerating ggplot2.

• ggstance - Horizontal ggplot2 components

• roxygen2md - Converts elements of roxygen documentation to markdown.

• prediction - Tidy, Type-Safe ‘prediction()’ Methods.

• ratelimitr - Rate limiting for R functions.

• OCRinShiny - OCR an image and get a word cloud.

• ggsn - R package to add north symbols and scale bars to maps created with ggplot or ggmap.

• Scientific Journal and Sci-Fi Themed Color Palettes for ggplot2 - Scientific Journal and Sci-Fi Themed Color Palettes for ggplot2.

• The rOpenSci geospatial suite

New Releases

• October Package Picks

• RcppExamples 0.1.8 - The RcppExamples package provides a handful of short examples detailing by concrete working examples how to set up basic R data structures in C++.

• data.table 1.9.8 - Extension of Data.frame

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• getDLLRegisteredRoutines() now produces its warning correctly when multiple DLLs match.

Upcoming Events

• rstudio::conf 2017 January 13 and 14, 2017
  The conference about all things R and RStudio.
  

Quote of the Week

Do you use SQL with R? With R Markdown and R Notebooks, you can run SQL statements right inside the editor. https://t.co/4IG1QWIkz6 #rstats pic.twitter.com/3dyKBUwBOq

— RStudio Tips (@rstudiotips)

#Rhub #rstats package builder has artifacts now, including binary packages: https://t.co/YZSZMlv9j2

— Gabor Csardi (@GaborCsardi)