R Weekly 2019-07

Release Date: 2019-02-18

Highlight

Insights

• “Correlation is not causation”. So what is?

• Most popular machine learning R packages – part 2

• Deep learning at rstudio::conf 2018

• Mastering your day as a programmer

• We Want to be Playing with a Moderate Number of Powerful Blocks

• Data Science Education: Some Thoughts

• Package Building: How DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE, roxygen, and devtools::document work together

Resources

• The ggplot2 flipbook

• ggplot2 extensions gallery

• R for Journalism

• R for Political Data

R in the Real World

• How did Axios rectangle Trump’s PDF schedule? A try with R

• What Do Freelance Writers Make?

• Trump tweet time

• How did Axios rectangle Trump’s PDF schedule? A try with R

• Liverpool is the Most Popular City in the World (relative to use as password per inhabitant)

• Text mining the EU withdrawal bill Hansard II

• R for Political Data Science Week 7: The 2020 Twitter Primary

• Visualizing Brooklyn Nine-Nine with R!

R in Organizations

• Community Call Follow-up - Governance of Open Source Research Software Organizationss

• What does Microsoft do with R?

R in Academia

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• VapoRwave 📦: Featuring three vaporwave ggplot2 themes and 13 (lucky) color palettes 🏂

• ghactions, GitHub actions for R and accompanying R package.

CRAN

• shinyalert: Easily create pretty popup messages (modals) in Shiny

• olsrr, a set of tools for improved output from linear regression models, designed keeping in mind beginner/intermediate R users.

• Introducing tidyLPA (an R package for carrying out Latent Profile Analysis)

• Using the ropendata R Package to Access Petabytes of Free Internet Telemetry Data from Rapid7

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

Updated Packages

• staplr, toolkit to manipulate PDF files.

• vcr - Record test suite ‘HTTP’ requests and replays them during future runs.

• A Major Upgrade of the V8 package

• tidygraph 1.1 – A tidy hope

• BH 1.66.0-1

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD Episode 74 - I Draw the Line at Fans: Hilary and Roger discuss Roger’s foray into cloud computing and how they determine whether they can trust an algorithm or R package. Also, a bonus discussion of the state of data science as a field.
• R-Podcast Episode 27 - Get the {gt} Tables!: Eric shares a behind-the-scenes look at his rstudio::conf 2019 presentation about Shiny modules, and talks to RStudio software engineer Rich Iannone about his journey from atmospheric science to creating the DiagrammeR and gt packages.
• Another R-Podcast with Eric Nantz (Yihui Xie)

Gist & Cookbook

R Internationally

Tutorials

• Inserting “Edit on GitHub” Buttons in a Single R Markdown Document

• Web Scraping 🕸️🤖 Google Sheets with RSelenium

• Writing Text in Minecraft with R

• Coupling Web scraping with Functional Programming in R for scale

• cdata Control Table Keys

• Quick Hit: Speeding Up a Slow/Mundane Task with a Little Rcpp

• Investigating words distribution with R – Zipf’s law

• 8 out of 10 cats does countdown - part 2

• object of type ‘closure’ is not(?) subsettable

• chull()

• convex hulls part 2

• Is 10,000 Cells Big?

• Evaluating R code from potentially malicious sources - part 1; part 2, part 3, part 4.

• A Shiny app for your perfect circle

• Anatomy of a logistic growth curve

• tfestimators - Package: Embeddings for Categorical Variables

• Importing 30GB of data in R with sparklyr

• Predicting job search by training a random forest on an unbalanced dataset

• Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning: Exploring Brexit with PLS and PCA

• Population growth and Doubling times with tidyverse

• The relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and electoral vote results - part 2 : get census data and plot the results

• Connecting R and arduino wirelessly through websockets

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Staged Install

• R CMD check has more comprehensive checks on the data directory and the functioning of data() in a package.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

• Diversity scholarships for upcoming R conferences

Events in 3 Months:

• satRday Paris - 23rd February

• satRday Johannesburg - 6th April

• satRday Newcastle - 6th April

• satRday Los Angeles - 6th April

• 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

• RStudio Summer interns

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

Roses are red,
Iris data forgettable.
Objects of type closure,
Are not subsettable#rstats valentine

— Danielle Navarro (@djnavarro) 13 de febrer de 2019

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