Issue 28

05 Dec 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• Analysis of software developers in New York, San Francisco, London and Bangalorevarianceexplained.org ( varianceexplained.org ) 

• Announcing bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdownblog.rstudio.org ( rstudio.org ) 

Tutorials

• NHL shots analysis using Plotly shapesmoderndata.plot.ly ( moderndata.plot.ly ) 

• How to write and document %special% functions in Rpeter.solymos.org ( peter.solymos.org ) 

• Simulation in R For AP Statisticwww.saturnscience.com ( saturnscience.com ) 

• Extract Twitter Data Automatically using Scheduler R packagedatascienceplus.com ( datascienceplus.com ) 

• Jupyter And R Markdown: Notebooks With Rwww.datacamp.com ( datacamp.com ) 

• How to create a ggplot Theme - Unicorn Editionflovv.github.io ( flovv.github.io ) 

• Be careful evaluating model predictionswww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Writing Good R Code and Writing Wellwww.rstudio.com ( rstudio.com ) 

• Creating GeoJSON out of Shapefile in Rblog.exploratory.io ( exploratory.io ) 

• Extracting Tables from PDFs in R using the Tabulizer Packagedatascienceplus.com ( datascienceplus.com ) 

• Extreme Gradient Boosting and Preprocessing in Machine Learning – Addendum to predicting flu outcome with Rshiring.github.io ( shiring.github.io ) 

• ratio-of-uniforms [#4]xianblog.wordpress.com ( xianblog.wordpress.com ) 

• RStudio in the cloud with Amazon Lightsail and dockersas-and-r.blogspot.com ( sas-and-r.blogspot.com ) 

• Efficiently Saving and Sharing Data in Rwww.econometricsbysimulation.com ( econometricsbysimulation.com ) 

• How to send bulk email to your students using Runamatematicaseltigre.blogspot.com ( unamatematicaseltigre.blogspot.com ) 

• The hourly heatmap with ggplot2johnmackintosh.com ( johnmackintosh.com ) 

• Missing Values, Data Science and Rwww.rstudio.com ( rstudio.com ) 

• ggplot2: multiple legends for the same aestheticwww.quantide.com ( quantide.com ) 

• Bill and Ted Make the best out of a Shi… Stata situation: Rstudio + Rstata + Statamikejacktzen.wordpress.com ( mikejacktzen.wordpress.com ) 

• More about Flexible Frequency Modelsstatcompute.wordpress.com ( statcompute.wordpress.com ) 

• Error, trend, seasonality – ets and its forecast model friendsellisp.github.io ( ellisp.github.io ) 

• Building a column selecteredwinth.github.io ( edwinth.github.io ) 

R in the Real World

• How many Authors does the Prime Minister have for his speeches: A Stylometric Analysisaliarsalankazmi.github.io ( aliarsalankazmi.github.io ) 

• Can we predict flu deaths with Machine Learning and R?shiring.github.io ( shiring.github.io ) 

• Seasonal Analysis in EGRETowi.usgs.gov ( owi.usgs.gov ) 

• Daily metric tracking with ggplot2johnmackintosh.com ( johnmackintosh.com ) 

• Plotting my trips with ubeRdrsimonj.svbtle.com ( drsimonj.svbtle.com ) 

• An Analysis of Contributions to PubMed Commonsnsaunders.wordpress.com ( nsaunders.wordpress.com ) 

• The Effective Number of Parties in the Electorate by Year and Regiondanielmarcelino.github.io ( danielmarcelino.github.io ) 

• On the German Tank / Taxicab Problemfportman.com ( fportman.com ) 

• Replicating NYT Weather Appjkunst.com ( jkunst.com ) 

• Some Technical Readingwww.rstudio.com ( rstudio.com ) 

• Analysis of software developers in New York, San Francisco, London and Bangalorevarianceexplained.org ( varianceexplained.org ) 

• Heatmaps with Divvy Datawww.austinwehrwein.com ( austinwehrwein.com ) 

International R

• R & les expressions régulièrewww.thinkr.fr — English (auto-translate)translate.google.com  ( thinkr.fr ) 

R in Organization

• Free online course: Analyzing big data with Microsoft R Serverblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Announcing bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdownblog.rstudio.org ( rstudio.org ) 

• Working at RStudioappliedpredictivemodeling.com ( appliedpredictivemodeling.com ) 

• Russell 2000 Quantitative Stock Analysis in R: Six Stocks with Amazing, Consistent Growthwww.mattdancho.com ( mattdancho.com ) 

• Using R to Gain Insights into the Emotional Journeys in War and Peaceblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

R in Academia

• vtreat data cleaning and preparation article now available on arXivwww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

Videos and Podcasts

• DataChats: An interview with Garrett Grolemundwww.datacamp.com ( datacamp.com ) 
• PLOTCON 2016 on Youtubewww.youtube.com ( youtube.com ) 

Resources

• Learn to Analyze Big Data with R - Free Course101.datascience.community ( 101.datascience.community ) 
• Learning R programming by reading books: A book list #rstatsstatisticalestimation.blogspot.com ( statisticalestimation.blogspot.com ) 
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ggplot2 in Rpacha.hk ( pacha.hk ) 

New Packages and Tools

• pushoverrbconnelly.net - R Phone Home: Notifications with pushoverr ( bconnelly.net ) 
• fauxpasropensci.org - HTTP conditions package ( ropensci.org ) 
• elasticsearchralexioannides.com - a Lightweight Elasticsearch Client for R ( alexioannides.com ) 
• subprocesswww.r-bloggers.com - A new subprocess package for #RStats ( r-bloggers.com ) 
• ggguitarwww.r-chart.com - This package allows you to create guitar tablature in the style of ggplot2. ( r-chart.com ) 
• Santa’s Little Helperamywhiteheadresearch.wordpress.com – a function for randomly assigning Secret Santa presents ( amywhiteheadresearch.wordpress.com ) 
• datapastacran.r-project.org - Datapasta provides three Rstudio addins that give you complete freedom copy and paste data into your RStudio scource editor. ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• commonmarkropensci.org - High Performance CommonMark and Github Markdown Rendering in R ( ropensci.org ) 

• pdfsearcheducate-r.org - pdfsearch adds the ability to do keyword searches on pdf files. ( educate-r.org ) 

• BERTwww.thertrader.com - a newcomer in the R Excel connection ( thertrader.com ) 

New Releases

• Microsoft R Open 3.3.2blog.revolutionanalytics.com - Microsoft’s distribution of open source R. ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 
• D3PartitionR 0.3.0antoineguillot.wordpress.com - Plotting D3 Hierarchical Plots in R and Shiny ( antoineguillot.wordpress.com ) 
• anytime 0.1.1dirk.eddelbuettel.com - anytime is a very focussed package aiming to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered … format to POSIXct (or Date) objects. ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 

R Project Updates

Updates from R Coredeveloper.r-project.org. ( developer.r-project.org ) 

• Check customization via environment variables to detect side effects of .Call() and .External() calls which alter their arguments is described in §8 of the R Internals manual.

• The Just In Time byte code compiler is now enabled by default at level 3. For now, the compiler will not compile code containing explicit calls to browser(): this is to support single stepping from the browser() call.

• JIT compilation can be disabled using compiler::enableJIT(0) or by setting environment variable R_ENABLE_JIT to 0.

Upcoming Events

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

Quote of the Week

I did a statistical study (N=2) about saving factory jobs. R^2=1. Clear evidence that we're on the right track. #Rstatstwitter.com #ggplot2twitter.com #badstatstwitter.com pic.twitter.com/e1er8kO90Yt.co ( twitter.com ) 

— Lego Grad Student (@legogradstudent) twitter.com  ( twitter.com ) 

use ggmissing and visdat to let your coauthors LITERALLY see what they are missing #rstatstwitter.com by @nj_tierneytwitter.com pic.twitter.com/Vz8if3bG83t.co ( twitter.com ) 

— Andrew MacDonald (@polesasunder) twitter.com  ( twitter.com )