R Weekly 2018-30

Release Date: 2018-07-16

Highlight

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• Stickylabeller - easily include summary statistics and even automatically number/letter your facets for use in papers and reports

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

Package Releases

• plotly 4.8.0 - Create Interactive Web Graphics via ‘plotly.js’

• fst 0.8.0 - Lightning fast serialization of data frames using the fst package

• RcppClassic 0.9.11

• pinp 0.0.6: Two new options

• nanotime 0.2.2

• R.devices 2.16.0 - Unified Handling of Graphics Devices

Insights

• Highlights from the useR! 2018 conference in Brisbane

R in the Real World

• Twitter Coverage of the useR Conference 2018

• Regional population structures at a glance

• A quick #WorldEmojiDay exploration

• Alleviating AWS Athena Aggravation with Asynchronous Assistance

• This post talks about using Random Forests to model the Number of Votes a Zomato restaurant gets.

• Recreating (more) data visualizations from the book “Knowledge is Beautiful”: Part IV

• A hex sticker wall, created with R

• A thought experiment: How CRAN saved 3,620 (working) lives

• Don’t Worry: Google Only Checks Your Location Every 10 Minutes

R in Academia

Resources

• Why I rarely use apply

Videos and Podcasts

• UseR! 2018 Videos

• Recipes for Data Processing by Max Kuhn - part 1 & part 2

Gist & Cookbook

R in Organizations

• Come see R Consortium and R Ladies at Open Source Summit NA in Vancouver this August

• The 2018 R Conference Was the Biggest Yet

R Internationally

Tutorials

• Introduction to mapping with {sf} & Co.

• Automated Text Feature Engineering using textfeatures in R

• Multi-threaded hashing with xxHash from R

• Introducing the monitoring and evaluation bullet chart

• FROM DATA TO VIZ FIND THE GRAPHIC YOU NEED

• Hamiltonian tails

• Get on your soapbox! R blog content and promotion

• mapedit and leaflet.js > 1.0

• Simulate! Simulate! - Part3: The Poisson edition

• The “Invisible Baby” Metaphor

• What’s inside? pkginspector provides helpful tools for inspecting package contents

• How Will an Animated GIF Work in a Textbook?

• Explaining Black-Box Machine Learning Models - Code Part 1: tabular data caret

• 🎨 Palettes - Archer poster edition

• Creating legends when aesthetics are constants in ggplot2

• Learn to R blog series - Operators and Objects

• Randomize by, or within, cluster?

• stickylabeller

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• LatinR 2018 Sept 4-5
  Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• Econometrics and Statistics using R Sept 10-14
  Lisbon, Portugal.

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Datasets

Jobs

Call for Participation

• Econometrics and Statistics using R - Econometrics and Statistics usin R is organized in 5 training days that will provide you a full set of tools and techniques that any modern applied researcher needs to know. 10-14 September - Lisbon, Portugal

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

😳 Thanks to the @RConsortium, I'm gonna need a solid month to get through all the 📹 awesomeness from @useR2018_conf… https://t.co/kzKWI6W5cf #rstats #useR2018 pic.twitter.com/wlHvqKbulM

— Mara Averick (@dataandme) July 16, 2018

How I stopped worrying about formatting regression analyses tables and learned to love the `ggcoefstats` function (https://t.co/pn9YtXOI2i)

ICYWW, this is unpublished data where we fail to replicate the finding that autistics morally judge accidental harms more severely#rstats pic.twitter.com/cPxbk4E2to

— Indrajeet Patil (@patilindrajeets) July 12, 2018

#gganimate is fantastic! It just works. So many GIFs to make for upcoming stats textbook. Here's one showing how pseudo-correlations arise due to sampling error (when two random variables are drawn from a uniform distribution) as a function of sample-size (10,50,100,1000) #rstats pic.twitter.com/U5K0ngQ4v1

— Matt Crump (@MattCrump_) July 15, 2018