Issue 11

08 Aug 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• JSM 2016 Slides
• Attribution model with R (part 1: Markov chains concept)
• 2016 Australian Federal Election Flexdashboard

News & Blog Posts

Tutorials

• Finding second level variable interactions in XGBoost trees
• Creating Annotated Data Frames from GEO with the GEOquery package
• Eclipse – an alternative to RStudio – part 2
• Merge a list of datasets together
• Getting Started With CaricRture

• Plot some variables against many others with tidyr and ggplot2
• Plotting GPX tracks with Shiny and Leaflet

• Plain vanilla recurrent neural networks in R: waves prediction
• Getting Your Colleagues Hooked on R

• Simulating from the Bivariate Normal Distribution in R

• fashion() output with corrr
• Attribution model with R (part 1: Markov chains concept)

• Understanding the empirical law of large numbers and the gambler’s fallacy

• ROC Curves in Two Lines of R Code

• Visualisation of Likert scale results

• Tips on Creating Presentations with RStudio and Webpage Embedding

• Using blscrapeR to Map County Unemployment Data

• Why SQL is not for Analysis, but dplyr is

R in the Real World

• Using Cohort Analysis to measure NBA Draft Value
• How R Packages are Licensed

• 2016 Australian Federal Election Flexdashboard

• Getting Started With CaricRture
• Map the Life Expectancy in United States with data from Wikipedia
• Swiss Olympians - the solo specialists

• A Case Study in Reproducible Model Building from The U.S. Geological Survey
• Finding possible class schedules

• Results from the R Shapefile Contest!

R in Organization

• JSM 2016 Slides
• Farewell, inside-r.org: where to find alternative R resources
• Azure ML Studio now supports Microsoft R Open, Python 3

R in Academia

• Statistical Methods for Linguistic Research

Video and Podcast

• NSSD Episode 20 - Face Time - About JSM2016 and more.

Resources

• Introduction to R for Excel Users
• Stackoverflow R Documentation

New Releases

• ttbbeer 1.1.0 - An R dataset package for US Beer Statistics from the US Treasury.
• formattable 0.2 - Creating formattable data structures.
• RcppStreams 0.1.1 - RcppStreams brings the Streamulus C++ library to R.
• readr 1.0.0 - Read many types of rectangular data, including csv, tsv and fixed width files.
• digest 0.6.1 - Hash for R objects.
• sjstats 0.3.0 - Update introduces some pipe-friendly bootstrapping-methods.

New Packages & Tools

• intubate - Interface to Popular R Functions for Data Science Pipelines.
• condvis - Conditional Visualisation for Statistical Models.
• rgeoapi - A package to access the French GéoAPI.
• nzcensus - New Zealand Census Results.
• Heuristica - An R package for testing models of binary choice.
• ghostr - Dataset of Ghost Sightings in Kentucky.
• margins - An R Port of Stata’s margins Command.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• Use options(deparse.max.lines) to limit the number of lines recorded in .Traceback and other deparsing activities.
• pmax() and pmin() now work with (more ?) classed objects, such as "Matrix" from the Matrix package, as documented for a long time.
• unique(warnings()) works more correctly, thanks to a new duplicated.warnings() method.
• The version of LAPACK included in the sources has been updated to 3.6.1, a bug-fix release including a speedup for the non-symmetric case of eigen().

Jobs

• 7 new R jobs from around the world

Call for Participation

• satRday! in Budapest, Hungary

Upcoming Events

• R Competition on education in South Africa 8 July - 21 August

• EARL 2016 London 13 September - 15 Septemberth
  The primary focus of the Conference is the commercial usage of R across a range of industry sectors with the aim of sharing knowledge and applications of the language.
  

• eRum 2016 Poznan, Poland 12 October - 14 October
  European R users meeting (eRum) is an international conference that aims at integrating users of the R language. eRum 2016 will be a good chance to exchange experiences, broaden knowledge on R and collaborate.
  

Quote of the Week

Teaser for my #JSM2016 on interactive graphics with @plotlygraphs #rstats pic.twitter.com/koAqMg7t8j

— Carson Sievert (@cpsievert) August 1, 2016

R pendants arrived today, will make them available in shop in few days #DataScience #rstats (black one also metal) pic.twitter.com/YT8ZBkLTN2

— Linda Terlouw (@lindaterlouw) August 5, 2016