R Weekly 2020-08

Release Date: 2020-02-24

Highlight

Videos and Podcasts

• Explore complex objects with the str() function

• Our first ever NHS-R webinar!

Insights

• 2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, February 2020

R in the Real World

• BIMI Up, Scotty! A look at Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) Adoption with R and the Alexa Top 1m

• Rebalancing! Really?

• The significance of the sector on the salary in Sweden, a comparison between different occupational groups

• The significance of the sector on the salary in Sweden, a comparison between different occupational groups

R in Organizations

• R Community Explorer – Google Summer of Code Projects

• rOpenSci’s Leadership in #rstats Culture

R in Academia

• Saul, B., & Hudgens, M. (2020). The Calculus of M-Estimation in R with geex. Journal of Statistical Software, 92(2), 1 - 15.

• Lang, M. N., Schlosser, L., Hothorn, T., Mayr, G. J., Stauffer, R., & Zeileis, A. (2020). Circular Regression Trees and Forests with an Application to Probabilistic Wind Direction Forecasting. arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.00412.

Resources

• conveRt to R: the short course

• A collection of links to Shiny apps that have been shared on Twitter

• Interactive Course using mgcv

• Basics & Cheatsheets

• Patterns in research and data sharing for the study of form and function in caviomorph rodents: Interactive Web App

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• osfr - provides a suite of functions for interacting with the Open Science Framework.

• unheadr - The goal of unheadr is to help wrangle data when it has embedded subheaders, or when values are wrapped across several rows.

BioC

*GitHub or Bitbucket

• seer - Feature-based Forecast Model Selection

• demodebates2020 - Transcripts of democractic debates for 2020 presedential election.

• nakedpipe - Pipe multiple calls without repeating the pipe syoperator

• {dmc} - Convert Colour to DMC Embroidery Floss and Back

• {templar}: Template and autogeneration for common documents

• {ggannotate}: Interactively annotate ggplots

Updated Packages

• arrow 0.16

• lintr 2.0.1

• {devtools 2.2.2}

• {gghighlight 0.2.0}

Gist & Cookbook

R Internationally

Tutorials

• comparing two data frames: one #rstats, many ways!

• gghighlight 0.2.0

• R, Public Health and Politics

• Disintegration, part 2 (12 Months of aRt, November)

• Spatial predictions with GAMs and rasters

• relgam: Fitting reluctant generalized additive models

• ChemoSpec2D Update

• rWind is working again!

• dataviz workshop at rstudio::conf

• Screen like RStudio Project

• Creating MS Word reports using the officer package

• Part 6: How not to validate your model with optimism corrected bootstrapping

• Is that a Mickey Mouse Blowing a Trumpet?

• Software for Flexible Bayesian Modeling – New release

• How is information gain calculated?

• What and who is IT community? What does it take to be part?

• RStudio 1.3 Preview: Configuration and Settings

• Getting started in R markdown

• Get Better: R for absolute beginners

• Quantile Regression (home made, part 2)

• Lasso Regression (home made)

• Aligning 2D NMR Spectra Part 1

• Analysing tweets with the rtweet package

• Debugging: Signals and Subprocesses

• Circular regression trees and forests

• Testing for a causal effect (with 2 time series)

• A classification approach to predicting air crash survival

• Create a specific feed in your Jekyll blog

• Movers & Shakers: trying to make sense of Fantasy Premier League data

• DALEX v 1.0 and the Explanatory Model Analysis

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Kurt Hornik: stringsAsFactors

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• TokyoR #84: February 29, 2020

• Time-to-Event Analytics: Probabilistic Programming with R and Stan (Malmö, Sweden), March 31

• satRday Johannesburg 2020

• satRday Newcastle upon Tyne, April the 4th, Call for speakers for #satRdayNCL closes 31st Jan.

• 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

Jobs

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

😱 HOW. HAVE. I. NEVER. HEARD. OF. PATCHWORK?!?!

So easy to combine multiple #rstats plots into one image. #dataviz https://t.co/x8pQ1tGfd8 pic.twitter.com/Bf3uWxxmcU

— Laura Ellis (@LittleMissData) February 16, 2020