R Weekly 2020-27 PhD Defenses, Lesser-known Packages, eRum 2020

06 Jul 2020

Release Date: 2020-07-06

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This week’s release was curated by Robert Hickman, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• My Physiological Response to my PhD Defence: Acute and Chronic

• Twitter’s Favorite Lesser Known Packages

• IMPRESSIONS FROM e-Rum2020

Insights

• IMPRESSIONS FROM e-Rum2020

• e-Rum 2020 Slides on Progressr

• Twitter’s Favorite Lesser Known Packages

• Rcpp now used by 2000 CRAN packages–and one in eight!

R in the Real World

• Future-Proofing Your Data Science Team

• LTV prediction for a recurring subscription with R

• Time Series Analysis: Forecasting Sales Data with Autoregressive (AR) Models

R in Organizations

• HYPERAUTOMATION – THE KEY TO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

• Tidymodels Internship

• Accessibility Internship

R in Academia

• My Physiological Response to my PhD Defence: Acute and Chronic

• Open-Source Authorship of Data Science in Education Using R

Resources

• R + Python = Rython

• Working with Spreadsheets

• Estimating Runtime for an R script

• PUZZLING REGRESSION ANATOMY

• R Objects, S Objects, and Lexical Scoping

• The Bechdel test and the X-Mansion with tidymodels and #TidyTuesday

• Uncanny X-Men: Bayesian take on Dr. Silge’s analysis

• Le Monde puzzle #1149

• one bridge further

• Simulating Spectroscopic Data Part 1

• Tip (4), Variable Explorer for both R and Python in RStudio

• Announcing Public Package Manager and v1.1.6

• Power Analysis by Data Simulation in R - Part I: Theoretical introduction to simulation

• Power Analysis by Data Simulation in R - Part II

• Power Analysis by Data Simulation in R - Part III

• A Social Network Simulation In The Tidyverse

• interactive spark-line, -bar, and -point charts for R and Shiny

• Learning enough front-end development to be dangerous: cranitup and hansolo

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {flightplot} 0.1.0: Plot airplane flight paths on maps

GitHub or Bitbucket

{nhlapi}: Exploring and plotting positional ice hockey data

• {sisimplec, simplecall, simplercpp}: demo packages incorporating C code

• {mplefortran}: small demo package for calling other languages from R:

• {mlsauce}: Miscellaneous Statistical/Machine learning stuff.

• {rorse}: Terse output for nested lists and data.frames

• {rollR}: R package inspired from RPGs to make all sorts of dice rolls

• {ptvapi}: Unofficial R wrapper for the Public Transport Victoria (PTV) timetable API

• {AfricaCountryBins}: Create bined heatmaps of the countries in Africa

• {pelotonR}: Provide users with simple access to the Peloton API through R

Updated Packages

• {actel}: Standardised analysis of acoustic telemetry data from fish moving through receiver arrays

• poorman: Version 0.2.1 Release

Videos and Podcasts

• Neural Networks using Tensorflow via Keras in R - Video

• Easiest ever authentication and user admin for shiny

• 110 - Who Needs Data?

Tutorials

A short blog post / tutorial on how to make Goldsberry-style NBA Shot Charts in R

• Learning learnr

A bootstrap example on how to create a paid data science app (DSaaS) with Shiny, Paddle, Firebase and Cloud Functions

• 12rd2vec in R

• Using Pyomo from R through the magic of Reticulate

• Visualizing Principal Components for Images

• ggplot2: Box Plots

• A introduction to creat RTF documents using huxtables in Rmarkdown

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 86th TokyoR (Virtual) Meetup: June 27, 2020

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

A short thread of #rstats resources I have made freely available online! First off, an introductory textbook on statistics with R pitched at beginners focusing on base R rather than tidyverse tools. https://t.co/gQPX26lRrB

— Danielle Navarro (@djnavarro) July 1, 2020

sometimes you just need the comforting warm embrace of rstudio #rstats pic.twitter.com/8bygY4vAYI

— Mandy Norrbo (@MandyNorrbo) July 2, 2020

📈This chart is my only response everytime I see someone claiming "no one" uses R#rstats #DataScience pic.twitter.com/jzvsNxvByj

— Jozef Hajnala (@jozefhajnala) July 2, 2020