R Weekly 2019-51 R-hub, reticulate

23 Dec 2019

Highlight

• R-hub usage in a few figures

• reticulate 1.14 - a comprehensive set of tools for interoperability between Python and R

Insights

• R vs. Python: What’s the best language for Data Science?

• Thanks for Reviewing Bug Reports

• R-hub usage in a few figures

• Gabriela de Queiroz steps down from the R-Ladies Global Leadership Team

R in the Real World

• Most Recurring Word on each Country’s Wikipedia Page

• Exploring Eu Wide Data on New Car Registrations and Co2 Efficiency

• Collecting and Analyzing Twitter Data Using R

• Christmas Gifting with R

• Are We in Kansas Anymore? Judging the State of Hollywood Film with Data from Wikipedia

• Print Beautiful City Street Maps with R

R in Organizations

• NHS-R Community Conference II

• 2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, December 2019

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• November 2019: “Top 40” New R Packages

• hardhat 0.1.0

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {claremontrun 0.1.0}: Data package that provides data from the Claremont Run project. This project collects data on Chris Claremont’s iconic run on Uncanny X-Men.

Updated Packages

• BH 1.72.0-2

• Paletteer 1.0.0

• RSAGA 1.0.0

• reticulate 1.14

Videos and Podcasts

• Intro to {nflscrapR} in the Tidyverse (Live Coding Screencast!)

• Letter To A Young Maintainer - Hadley Wickham (@Monktoberfest)

R Internationally

• (Japanese) Exporting R graphs and tables to PowerPoint, Excel, and Word

• (Japanese) Using R and 3D printers to create a scaled model of Mount Yatsugatake

Tutorials

• New rquery Vignette: Working with Many Columns

Using the rco package to optimise R code

• Better SQL Generation via the data_algebra

• Quickly Create (Mostly) Responsive HTML Columns With {htmltools}

• Comparison of indices of significance in the Bayesian framework

• Shiny Apps: Development and Deployment

• Painting Santa with Letters

• Speeding up R Plotly web apps - R x Javascript part I

• Converting LOBSTER demo R code into Python

• Herds of statistical models

• an arithmetic mean identity

• Using R: Animal model with hglm and Stan (with Cholesky trick)

• Base Graphics – The “Drunk Uncle” of R ?

• We cleaned our website URLs with R!

• Locating parts of a string with stringr

• “trimmer” - trim an R object

• SKEWed perceptions

• Why R? 2019 Conference - Summary

• Completeing zeroes and dates in R charts (miskatonic.org)

• 10 Levels of ggplot2: From Basic to Beautiful

• How I built an interactive Shiny dashboard in 2 days without any experience in R

• Merging rows in R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• R @ ISSA, December 26

• Thinking about rstudio::conf 2020? See the full conference schedule!

• Tidyverse Dev Day, January 31

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats eventsMore past events at R conferences & meetups.

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Quotes of the Week

I found a really cool tool for drawing diagrams! It's called {nomnoml}. It's super easy and intuitive to use, looks pretty, has an #rstats package by @javierluraschi (https://t.co/F4YLxhSMnL) and even a live code editor here: https://t.co/yALBw6PflJ. pic.twitter.com/P67HKd2AEO

— Fabio Votta📊🦉 (@favstats) December 17, 2019