Issue 3

13 Jun 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• How to send a bunch of emails from R

• Good Books for All Things Data

R Community Updates

News & Blog Posts

Tutorials

• Understanding data.table Rolling Joins

• Using geom_step

• Bootstrap and cross-validation for evaluating modelling strategies

• Linking bigmemory and RcppEigen

• Handling missing data with MICE package; a simple approach

• R profiling

• Analyze Face Emotions with R

• A very useful set of 254 slides on high performance computing

• Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Models

• Static and dynamic network visualization with R - code and tutorial from Polnet 2015 workshop.

• How to send a bunch of emails from R

• The R Project for Maps

• Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice

• Travis with Cron Jobs - Useful for R package developers.

• Plotting logistic regression in R

• Radial bar charts in R using Plotly

R in the Real World

• Right or Wrong? - Validate Numbers Like a Boss - How does a statistician ensure that an analysis that comprises of outputting results is correct?

• When Should One Stop Testing Software? - How long to continue testing your software before shipping.

• Why is it really difficult to hire testers? - A Study of Software Testers.

• Understanding regression through the NBA boxscores

• Dream Analysis in R - Whether I can predict the number of dreams I’ll remember and how happy those dreams will be using data collected in self-tracking apps.

• Oil Price Trend in South African Rands

• Rexer Data Science Survey: Satisfaction Results

• Women in Orchestras - The members of ten top orchestras of the world.

• Time Series Analysis Using Max/Min… and some Neuroscience

• What are the Best Machine Learning Packages in R?

• Building the Data Matrix for the Task at Hand and Analyzing Jointly the Resulting Rows and Columns

• Exploring Quantum Gate operations with QCSimulator

• Economist Liquidity Index

• Text and Sentiment Analysis with Trump, Clinton, Sanders Twitter data

• Dataviz Remix: Housing Trilemma

• Scraping and Plotting Minneapolis Property Prices with RSelenium, ggmap and ggplots

• Interactive network of RePEc economists on Twitter

R in Organization

• In case you missed it: May 2016 roundup

• News: New Package Submission Process - bioconductor

• IBM Invests in R Programming Language for Data Science; Joins R Consortium

• Microsoft announces major commitment to Apache Spark

• R, Python Duel As Top Analytics, Data Science software – KDnuggets 2016 Software Poll Results - R remains the leading tool, with 49% share

• This House(ing Market) is on Fire! - Analysing US Housing Market with Census & Zillow Data in R

• R Consortium and User! 2016 News

• Good Books for All Things Data

R in Academia

• camtrapR: an R package for efficient camera trap data management - Methods in Ecology and Evolution - on CRAN

• rOpenSci Biweekly 2016-06-06

• R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use (finally) - and the comments on Hacker News

• Rootograms a new way to assess count models - paper link

• Social problems with a paper in Social Problems

R for Fun

• R for cats and cat lovers

• Puppet Roger Peng ep1 - Render a totally heavy metal 3d interactive skull, in R.

Videos & Podcasts

• Developing Shiny Applications: Using Leaflet in R

• XGBoost A Scalable Tree Boosting System - blog post link

• JJ Allaire - What new things from RStudio are you excited for?

• ggplot2 SparkR: Rebooting ggplot2 for Scalable Big Data Visualization

• Introducing Flexdashboard: an R Markdonw Format for Quick, Intelligent Dashboards by Garrett Grolemund (@garrettgman) - materials

• NSSD Podcast - Diurnal High Variance

• Complex Ecological and Evolutionary Systems - A course in the R statistical computing language by video podcast.

Resources

• Book - Exploring Data Science

• htmlwidgets Gallery

• Data Science for Political and Social Phenomena - The motivation for this site and ongoing book project is to bridge that gap: to create a practical guide to applying data science to political and social phenomena.

New Releases

• BetaBit - Frequency analysis challenge console-based game

• fodr - An R package to access French Open Data portals.

• haven - Conversion semantics - Better support for SPSS/Stata/SAS NAs + labels in haven.

• sunburstR - With more precise color control for coord.

• bdvis - Visualize completeness of biodiversity data.

New Packages & Tools

• shinytoastr - Notifications in shiny apps via toastr.js

• idbr on CRAN - access the US Census Bureau International Data Base in R

• ggplot1 - ggplot1 is mostly made available out of historical interest, to illustrate how Hadley thinking about API design in R has evolved over the years.

• manhattanly - interactive plots for manhattan and Q-Q plots.

• rbhl - R interface to the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) API.

• rprev - Simulating disease prevalence estimates.

• gdeltr2 - R interface to the data stores and APIs of The GDELT Project.

• googleway - Retrieves data from Google Maps APIs.

• HIBPwned - Bindings for the HaveIBeenPwned.com Data Breach API.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• diff(<difftime>) now keeps the "units" attribute, as subtraction already did, PR#16940.

• extSoftVersion() now reports the version (if any) of the readline library in use. And some other patches about readline library.

• as<-() avoids an infinite loop when a virtual class is interposed between a subclass and an actual superclass.

• Fix S3 dispatch on S4 objects when the methods package is not attached.

• Internal S4 dispatch sets .Generic in the method frame for consistency with standardGeneric(), PR#16929.

• Fix order(x, decreasing=TRUE) when x is an integer vector containing MAX_INT. Ported from a fix Matt Dowle made to data.table.

Call for Participation

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Upcoming Events

• 2016 useR! Stanford - The R User Conference 2016
  June 27 - June 30
  
  • Video Stream
  • Schedule
  • Twitter #user2016

Jobs

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Quote of the Week

Twitter @ Sam Firke

Just realized that tidyr (#rstats package for cleaning dirty data) is an anagram of “dirty”. Whoa.

Twitter @ Karl Broman

Summer reading. #rstats (click the link to read more)

Twitter @ James Curley

CRAN submit help: 1. @hadleywickham - http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/ 2. @kwbroman - http://kbroman.org/pkg_primer/pages/cran.html 3. @xieyihui http://yihui.name/en/2009/10/50000-revisions-committed-to-r/ !