R Weekly 2019-16

Release Date: 2019-04-22

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Highlight

Insights

• What Docs When

• Setting up RStudio Server on a Cloud for Collaboration and Reproducibility

• RStudio Package Manager 1.0.8 - System Requirements

• Common PROTECT Errors - The R Blog

• Technical Debt in Data Science

DataCamp

For context, see last week issue

• An Exchange with DataCamp

• Boycott DataCamp

• Writing a Letter to DataCamp

• R community blasts DataCamp response to exec’s ‘inappropriate behavior’

R in the Real World

• Exploratory data analysis using mock draft data from the 2018 NFL Draft.

R in Organizations

R in Academia

Resources

• Features Engineering Art using R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• dbparser - dbparser: ‘DrugBank’ Database XML Parser

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

• gganonymize

Updated Packages

• rversions 1.1.0 is on CRAN!

Videos and Podcasts

Gist & Cookbook

R Internationally

• the Spanish R Users conference - XI Jornadas de usuarios de R. 14 Nov 2019, Madrid Spain.

• China-R Beijing 24 May - 26 May

Tutorials

• Implementing the Super Learner with tidymodels

• Docker and Packrat

• Number Lines in Code Blocks with RMarkdown

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• China-R Beijing 24 May - 26 May

• 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

• The Redacted Mueller Report

Jobs

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Quotes of the Week