R Weekly 2019-08 No Warranty, Weather

25 Feb 2019

Highlight

• Absolutely No Warranty

• forcats::fct_match

• Where are the places with the best (and the worst) weather in the United States

Insights

• Interview with Stephanie Hicks

• Open letter to journal editors: dynamite plots must die

• Notes on porting Ruby to R

• Conquering Caffeinated Amazon Athena with the metis Trio of Packages

• forcats::fct_match

• Absolutely No Warranty

• The Ultimate Infinite Moon Reader for xaringan Slides

R in the Real World

• Visualize Language Loss in Taiwan: Create an “Age-Sex Pyramid of Language” with ggplot2

• Where are the places with the best (and the worst) weather in the United States

• discog-purrr

• An Empirical Analysis of RuPaul’s Drag Race Contestants

• R for Political Data Science Week 8: Four Parties in America? Probably Not Anytime Soon.

• Seasonality in NZ voting preference?

• LEGO mosaics, Part 3(D)

• Visualisation of Squiggle Tipsters

• “Correlation is not causation”. So what is?

R in Organizations

• Meetup API tracking in R - Analytics>Forward in RTP, NC - Part 1 and Part 2

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• sen2r - R toolbox to find, download and preprocess Sentinel-2 data

• CBRT - Easy access to the CBRT database, provides functions for finding, and downloading more than 22,000 time series from the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey’s database.

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Package for deep feature extraction from images and natural language text

• Encryptr - easily encrypt and decrypt columns of sensitive data

Updated Packages

• ssh 0.4 - The ssh package provides a native ssh client for R.

• Rblpapi 0.3.9 - Connecting R to Bloomberg

• RVowpalWabbit 0.0.13 - RVowpalWabbit connects GNU R to the very impressive Vowpal Wabbit fast out-of-core learning system.

• babynames - For each year from 1880 to 2017, the number of children of each sex given each name.

Videos and Podcasts

• Tidy Tuesday screencast: tidying and analyzing US PhDs in R

Gist & Cookbook

• classify - Help us classify functions from data analysis R scripts into categories

Tutorials

• Running your R script in Docker

• How to generate and plot the mysterious Recamán sequence with R

• Announcing “Just Three Things”

• omg binder!

• Finding Economic Articles with Data

• An introduction to Text Analysis with tidytext, where we analyse the State of the Union Address speeches from three different Presidents!

• Vivid: Toward A Next Generation Statistical User Interface

• Shiny App to access NOAA data

• Descriptive/Summary Statistics with descriptr

• Use algebra and calculus with R and yacas to find Chidi’s optimal level of pizza and frozen yogurt consumption

• Excel email address cleaner & aggregator in R (#readxl, #openxlsx)

• Verbose data.table and uncovering hidden cedta’s data table awareness decisions

• Query Generation in R

• A Spoonful of Hugo - Page Bundles, The netlify.toml File, Archetypes

• Getting Started With rquery

• In Dev: WiGLE Your Way Into A Hotspot with wiglr

• Playing With Pipe Notations

• I Just Wanted The Data : Turning Tableau & Tidyverse Tears Into Smiles with Base R (An Encoding Detective Story)

• Setting Up Raspberry Pi Temperature/Humidity Sensors for Data Analysis in R

• Developments in AzureR

• Cloudy with a chance of Caffeinated Query Orchestration – New rJava Wrappers for AWS Athena SDK for Java

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• satRday Johannesburg - 6th April

• satRday Newcastle - 6th April

• satRday Los Angeles - 6th 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

• call for sessions and labs at Bay2sC0mp²⁰

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Quotes of the Week

THIS IS SO COOL!!!

Instantaneous #xaringan #rstats slide previews! 🤩 @xieyihui, you rock! https://t.co/MEGhQCuq7e pic.twitter.com/yYG5zIRM0C

— Garrick Aden-Buie (@grrrck) February 21, 2019

Added a Workflow section to our #tensorflow with #rstats repo: https://t.co/nT2NnevgMm It uses @wmlandau awesome drake package to prepare, run and visualize the plan. Outstanding work Willl!! https://t.co/YGphATxVdO https://t.co/SWofnrjike pic.twitter.com/G9mftzoXsB

— Edgar Ruiz (@theotheredgar) February 21, 2019