R Weekly 2019-21 ITFM, rodev, visualization

27 May 2019

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

Highlight

• From RTFM to ITFM (Improve The Fine Manual)

• rodev: helpers for rOpenSci package authors

• Can I do that? Inspiration from a Pudding data visualization.

Insights

• A noLD platform on R-hub package builder

• From RTFM to ITFM (Improve The Fine Manual)

R in the Real World

• What is the probability that in a box of a dozen donuts picked from 14 flavors there’s no more than 3 flavors in the box?

• Add Dressbarn to the Continued Retailpocalypse

• Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 4: Classification of lab samples

• Can I do that? Inspiration from a Pudding data visualization.

R in Organizations

• I co-founded a company! Meet Problem Forward Data Science

Resources

• Headless Chrome Automation with R - The slides for the talk at @uRosconf on Headless Chrome Automation for the {crrri} package by Christophe Dervieux and Romain Lesur

• RinteRface: Production-ready UIs for Shiny

• Upgrading to R 3.6. on a Mac

• rodev: helpers for rOpenSci package authors

• Useful tips to be more productive while working with R Studio. Part 2.

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• partition 0.1.0: A fast and flexible framework for data reduction

• dde for integrating delay differential equations

• tidycode Analyze Lines of R Code the Tidy Way

• integr An Implementation of Interaction Graphs of Aleks Jakulin

• R62S3 Automatic S3 Method Generation from R6

• bib2df Parse a BibTeX File to a Data Frame

GitHub or Bitbucket

• `Rtistic A package-by-numbers repo

Updated Packages

• getTBinR 0.6.0 now on CRAN - from 80 Tuberculosis variables to more than 450!

Videos and Podcasts

• Free Video Lecture: Vectors for Programmers and Data Scientists

• NSSD Episode 81 Getting to Yes with Data Analysis - Hilary and Roger discuss the book Getting to Yes and how it applies to data analysis. Also, more sports, breaking changes to R, and sampling.

R Internationally

• Enquete Origine Destination 2017 et troisieme lien

Tutorials

• Center continuous palettes in ggplot2

• Create a CLI for R with npm

• Vignette: a ‘Copy & Paste’ R workflow for word clouds

• Part 2: Simple EDA in R with inspectdf

• Timing hash functions with the bench package

• Turning images into ridgeline plots

• Slides on making interactive leaflet maps with R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• China-R Beijing 24 May - 26 May

• Rstudio & ThinkR roadshow – June 6 – Paris

• satRday Berlin, June 15th

• useR2019

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Datasets

• R Text Data Compilation - List of textual data sources to be used for text mining in R.

Call for Participation

• MRAN snapshots, and you

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

This patch to #rstats-devel by @LukeTierney4 makes me very happy, thank you! 🎉

Thanks also to @HeathrTurnr for encouraging me, and explaining me how, to post to R-devel. 💜 #rladies https://t.co/du9cxtpJ0i

— Maëlle Salmon 🐟 (@ma_salmon) May 21, 2019