R Weekly 2019-44 Mocking, skimr, shinymeta

04 Nov 2019

Highlight

• Mocking is catching

• (Re)introducing skimr v2 - A year in the life of an open source R project

• shinymeta — a revolution for reproducibility

Insights

• R as a First Programming Language

• Mocking is catching

• Reducing frictions in writing with R Markdown for html and pdf

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

R in the Real World

• Spelunking macOS ‘ScreenTime’ App Usage with R

• Rugby World Cup Standings

• Calculating (Twitter) Vocabulary Breadth of U.S. Presidential Candidates Using TTR

• United we Stand?

• Race for a family

• Guilford Registered Voters: An R Sampler

• 12 Months of restaurants

• dogs of new york

R in Organizations

• 81st TokyoR Meetup Roundup: A Special Session in {Shiny}!

• Working with New Haven Area Census Data Using R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• opendatatoronto 0.1.0

• Sept 2019: “Top 40” New R Packages

• {connections 0.1.0}

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {MapPalettes 0.0.2}: A set of nifty palettes and functions for maps designed by the DiSARM team at UCSF

• {unnestIfElse 0.1.0}: RStudio Addin to quickly and roughly convert nested ifelse() statements to dplyr::case_when()

• {conflicted}: The goal of conflicted is to provide an alternative conflict resolution strategy

Updated Packages

• {workflowr 1.5.0}

• {AzureRMR 2.3.0}

• {TSstudio 0.1.5}

Videos and Podcasts

• MLverse: Discover and Share datasets with pins

• Forecast Combination talk

Tutorials

• Why should I use the here package when I’m already using projects?

• An Amazon SDK for R!?

• shortened iterations [code golf]

• (Re)introducing skimr v2 - A year in the life of an open source R project

• Tutorial: plotting maps of Spain with ggplot2

• Testing the tune package from tidymodels - analysing the relationship between the upsampling ratio and model performance

• A brief primer on Variational Inference

• Offensive Programming in action (part III)

• shinymeta — a revolution for reproducibility

• New Introduction to the data_algebra

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Yes We Cran: A conference on R packages and their applications, December 6-8

• Japan.R 2019, December 7

• rOpenSci OzUnconf, December 11-13

• R @ ISSA, December 26

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

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Quotes of the Week

Some advice on managing your online presence if you're applying for a job or scholarship, based on my experiences reviewing rstudio::conf scholarship applications (results out soon):

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) October 31, 2019

PCA of cocktail statistics using data from @CookingIssues's book "Liquid Intelligence." Solid circle size is sugar content, hollow acid. pic.twitter.com/B9BwCjzF3R

— Harold Pimentel (@hjpimentel) October 4, 2017

One of my fave/most frequently used #rstats commands:

options(scipen = 999)

turns off scientific notation in R, aka turns 5.3e-2 to 0.053 😇🙏🏻

— Dr. Gavin Jones (@ecologyofgavin) October 28, 2019