R Weekly 2019-15 Package Development, Data Journalism, R Community

15 Apr 2019

This week release was curated by Colin Fay, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• How to get help with R package development? R-package-devel and beyond

• On Meeting Data Journalists (R Views)

• Curb Cuts, Universal Design, and the Creation of a Welcoming R Community

• A data.table and dplyr tour

Insights

• On Meeting Data Journalists (R Views)

• This is a short description about my experience at R Unconference Chicago.

• How to get help with R package development? R-package-devel and beyond

• A workflow for lightweight R dependency management

Datacamp

• A note to our community

• R-Ladies Global’s disapproval of DataCamp

• DataCamp Sponsorship of satRday Events

If you think @DataCamp deserves credit for a public post that they did not discipline an executive for sexual misconduct, consider that they put this code in the HTML, so no search engines would index it. I don't see it anywhere else on their blog. #rstats #python #datasci #metoo pic.twitter.com/xbQoSaQl5J

— Noam Ross (@noamross) April 12, 2019

• Don’t Take My DataCamp Course, There Must be Consequences for Sexual Assault

• A Note to Our Community On How To Hide Your Content From Search Engines

• A note to our community on building trust

• The Worst Behavior

• Datacamp took 521 days to announce an unwanted physical contact (Harassment) event

An open invite to all #datacamp instructors (and others willing to help): If you have (or know of) open source blogs/vignettes/materials that can stand in for particular DC courses/content, please post them in this thread. I’ll aggregate and make a GitHub repo. #rstats #python

— Chris Engelhardt (@EngelhardtCR) April 12, 2019

R in the Real World

• Twitter #rstats activity

• Exploring Career Progression of Current Premier League Players

• The trendiest baby names in Poland

• Is the U.S. Housing Recovery Over? Housing Fluctuations Across Time and Frequencies

• Lost In [SQL] Translation: Charting d[b]plyr Mapped SQL Function Support Across All Backends

R in Academia

• A set of shiny apps for interactive data analysis and teaching.

Resources

• R Markdown - Florian Privé & Julyan Arbel

• R Podcast - resources

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• getCRUCLdata: Use and Explore ‘CRU’ ‘CL’ v. 2.0 Climatology Elements

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Introducing the ‘foist’ package for fast output of images

Updated Packages

• usethis 1.5.0

• attempt 0.3.0

• rhub 1.1.1 is on CRAN!

• plotly 4.9.0 now on CRAN

Videos and Podcasts

• Community Call - Security for R

• RStats tip #1: avoid dots in names

Gist & Cookbook

• WIP - Building Big Shiny Apps - A Workflow

Tutorials

• When Charts are Integrated in the Web Page

• Sending Telegram notifications from R scripts

• Understanding the spectral theorem for matrices using R

• A data.table and dplyr tour

• Render mesh3d objects with rayshader and rayrender

• Accessing OpenStreetMap data with R

• Access to reanalysis data from R

• How to create ‘Warming Stripes’ in R

• Historical newspaper scraping with {tesseract} and R

• Analyse Site Structure and Internal Linking Structure with igraph

• Testing numeric variables for NA/NaN/Inf

• How to model with gradient boosting machine in R

• How to Create GPS Heatmaps in ggplot2

• Using svglite with web fonts

• Faster code with Rcpp

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• The Uncoast Unconference - 14th to 16th April

• Tokyo.R #77 - 13th April

• 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

the boy who cried wolf is good for type 1 and type 2 errors bc it happens in order - first there’s a type 1 error bc people believe something is happening when it’s not, then there’s a type 2 error bc people don’t believe something is happening when it is: https://t.co/ZVAeBtJlhQ

— Luuuda (@ludmila_janda) April 10, 2019