R Weekly 2019-26 rlang, parser

01 Jul 2019

Highlight

• rlang 0.4.0 - curly-curly, a new operator to make it easier to create #rstats functions around #tidyverse pipelines.

• Using AWK and R to parse 25tb

Insights

• Create Easy to Follow Technical Tutorials

• Stata 16, as seen from R

• data.table is Much Better Than You Have Been Told

• The Psychology of Flame Wars, re: dplyr vs. data.table debate

R in the Real World

• Text Parsing and Text Analysis of a Periodic Report (with R)

• Using AWK and R to parse 25tb

• The Nelson Siegel Model and P2P Bonds: Financial Models using R

• Causation doesn’t imply Correlation either

• Look who’s tweeting: 2020 Presidential Candidates

• On TIOBE Index

Resources

• Introduction to R Markdown (slides and workshop materials)

• Another Book on Data Science

• AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: June 2019

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• May 2019: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

GitHub or Bitbucket

• pbjob - Run R Scripts and Jobs with Pushbullet Alerts

• poissoned - a package for poisson disc sampling

Updated Packages

• rlang 0.4.0 - curly-curly, a new operator to make it easier to create #rstats functions around #tidyverse pipelines.

• RcppArrayFire v0.1.0 - Support for sparse matrices and Mac OS

• MODIStsp 1.3.9 - A Tool for Automating Download and Preprocessing of MODIS Land Products Data

• RStudio Connect 1.7.6 - Publish Git-backed Content

• binb 0.0.4 - Several nice improvements

• RcppTOML 0.1.6 - Tinytest support and more robustification

Tutorials

• Information Theory Provides a Consistent Framework for the Analysis of Spatial Patterns

• A Model and Simulation of Emotion Dynamics

• Changing Glyph in legend in ggplot2

• Simulating the bias-variance tradeoff in R

• The Distribution of the Sample Maximum - application to hiring

• Vignette: Write & Read Multiple Excel files with purrr

• How data.table’s fread can save you a lot of time and memory, and take input from shell commands

• My Free Online Tutorial on R

• R Plumber API in a Docker container? Of course, but security matters…

• Stacked Waterfall Graphs in R

• Many similar models - Part 1: How to make a function for model fitting

• Information theory provides a consistent framework for the analysis of spatial patterns

• How to hide a password in R with the keyring package

• Word2Vec Text Mining & Parallelization in R. Join MünsteR for our next meetup!

• Quick Hit: Above the Fold; Hard wrapping text at ‘n’ characters

• shinyApp(), runApp(), shinyAppDir(), and a fourth option

• New Versions of R GUIs: BlueSky, JASP, jamovi

• Quick hit: ‘dig’-ging Into DNS Records with {processx}

• Explaining Predictions: Interpretable models (logistic regression)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• useR2019

• TokyoR #80, July 27

• Mexico CDSB Workshop 2019, July 29 - August 2 - How to Build and Create Tidy Tools

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

Me, learning #rstats with the community https://t.co/z1BJcJjDGv

— Thomas Lin Pedersen (@thomasp85) June 28, 2019

I 💙 @nytgraphics temporal chicklet stacked column charts showing the time/topic-speaking length (https://t.co/41XLuMNSg4 / https://t.co/H0ocL1blQV) that I had to re-make them in #rstats {ggplot2}. pic.twitter.com/l2zRYxybfl

— boB 🇷udis (@hrbrmstr) June 28, 2019

1/5 THE LONG WAIT IS OVER! I'm happy to announce the release of rayshader with 3D ggplots. Pull up your favorite ggplot viz and throw it into the new plot_gg() function, and watch rayshader transform it into 3D. #rstats #rayshader #dataviz

Blog post: https://t.co/acRROGgtRS pic.twitter.com/tJrh04crE2

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) June 25, 2019