R Weekly 2020-10 golem, Celebration2020, Patchwork

09 Mar 2020

Highlight

• {golem} v 0.2.1

• Celebration2020 – A great get together to celebrate 20 years of R-1.0.0

• Patchwork R package goes nerd viral

Insights

• Celebration2020 – A great get together to celebrate 20 years of R-1.0.0

• Using R: 10 years with R

• Alternatives to reporting a p-value: the case of a contingency table

• Drawdowns by the data

• 2020 Democratic Primaries

• Decision Boundary for a Series of Machine Learning Models

R in the Real World

• A SHINY QUIZ APP ABOUT THE RUSSIAN INFLUENCE CAMPAIGN BEFORE THE 2016 US ELECTIONS

• Predicting the video game hype train - Playing around with Naïve Bayesian Learning

• COVID-19 epidemiology with R

• When does “garbage time” in an start in an NBA game?

• Modeling roll call voting behavior in the US House

Resources

• Twitter for R programmers

• Source code chapter of ‘evidence-based software engineering’ reworked

• OpenIntro Labs - tidyverse

satRday Johannesburg

• Keynote - “ ‘prod’ is not a four-letter word “

• Spatial optimisation with OSRM and R

• Sporadic Retail Inflation

• Workshop - “Building Successful Shiny Apps with {golem}”

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {golem} v 0.2.1

• ggplot2 3.3.0

• The probabilities implied by bookmaker odds: Introducing the ‘implied’ package

• lillies: Estimation of Life Years Lost

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {catchpole} Redux and Hashing Files & Websites with {ssdeepr}

• tsmp v0.4.8 release – Introducing the Matrix Profile API

• A geom for ggplot to create bump plots

Updated Packages

• RcppSimdJson 0.0.3: Second Update!

Videos and Podcasts

• CelebRation 2020

R Internationally

• Manipuler ses données avec tidyr ou comment éviter la surchauffe cérébrale

• Opérations sur les fichiers et les dossiers sous R

Tutorials

• Bayes’ theorem in three panels

• Nice tables in R

• All you need to know on Correspondence Analysis

• Patchwork R package goes nerd viral

• Displaying time series with R

• Function Basis and Regression

• Analyzing Relational Contracts With R: Part 2

• R tips and tricks – Paste a plot from R to a word file

• R data.table symbols and operators you should know

• How to generate, play and solve Sudoku puzzles in R

• Use of the .data and .env Pronouns to Disambiguate Your Tidyverse Code

• Good-looking problems: customise your Shiny disconnected screen and error messages.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Postgres Conference 2020 - Keynote!

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

• Community Call - Maintaining an R Package

• 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

• satRday Neuchâtel 2020 will be REMOTE - detail

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

• Call for papers open for SatRday Santiago de Compostela 2020

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Quotes of the Week

Happy 20th birthday to R! Some might say you're a niche language focused solely on data and have little to no utility beyond that domain, but others see the (pathtraced bouncing LEGO brick) potential within 😀

Video rendered entirely in #rstats using the #rayrender package pic.twitter.com/dmSkqYLJJt

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) February 29, 2020

#rstats project of the day : make R code chunks interactive in html output from a #rmarkdown file.
Next try: integrate with #bookdown for interactive example chunks. Quick Demo doc: https://t.co/th95VxJ9QY
What do you think about this small example ? Is this of any interest ? pic.twitter.com/NyjlnVeqU2

— Christophe Dervieux (@chrisderv) March 5, 2020