R Weekly 2019-41 Report, Review

14 Oct 2019

Insights

• R Can Use Your Help: Reviewing Bug Reports

• Reflections on building my first few R packages

• rOpenSci: cran checks API, an update

• Comparing Efficiency and Speed of data.table: Adding variables, filtering rows, and summarizing by group

• r-bugs :: object_size

• Modern Data Science with R: A review

R in the Real World

• Twitter’s Feelings About Programming Languages

• Breast cancer awareness!

• Wikipedia Page View Statistics Late 2007 and Beyond

• Building a data-driven CV with R

• Twitter data analysis in R

• Opioid prescribing habits in Texas

• GitHub Streak: Round Six

R in Organizations

• Why R? Warsaw 2019 Recap

Resources

• AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: September/October 2019

• rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.3.0: Updates

• List-columns in data.table: Nesting and unnesting data tables and vectors

• Mastering Shiny - The first five chapters of https://mastering-shiny.org are basically complete

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {fgdr 1.0.0}: Read and Parse for Fundamental Geo-Spatial Data (FGD)

• {RcppArmadillo 0.9.800.1.0}

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {marker}: Highlight text in Shiny with markjs

• {svgpatternusgs}: Provides SVG patterns from the United States Geological Survey (USGS)

• {g3r}: 3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality Maps

• {devoutsvg}: Bespoke SVG graphics output device with pattern fill support

• {devoutverse}: a collection of non-standard graphics output devices

• {miniverse}: a collection of document creation packages

Updated Packages

• {protolite 2.0}: Pure C++ implementations for reading and writing several common data formats based on Google protocol-buffers

• {rayrender 0.4.0}: Build and Raytrace 3D Scenes

• {silicate 0.2.0}: Generate common data forms for complex data suitable for conversions and transmission by decomposition as paths or primitives

Videos and Podcasts

• #TidyTuesday Podcast #7: Pizza Party

• Statistics Sunday: Mixed Effects Meta-Analysis

R Internationally

• Lo que aprendí en LatinR 2019

Tutorials

• Building Interactive World Maps in Shiny

• Individuals are not small groups, I: Simpson’s paradox

• Cluster multiple time series using K-means

• Using R: When weird errors occur in packages that used to work, check that you’re not feeding them a tibble

• Deploying a Dash Application to Operationalize Machine Learning Models

• cran checks API: an update

• Using Spark from R for performance with arbitrary code - Part 3 - Using R to construct SQL queries and let Spark execute them

• ggplot2tutor: Powerlifting - How age affects squat performance

• Loading packages efficiently

• Exploring Highcharts in R

• updated aupolitics project to work with s3 instead of db

• Explaining Predictions: Boosted Trees Post-hoc Analysis (Xgboost)

• DFIR Redefined Part 3: visNetwork for Network Data

• Spatial networks in R with sf and tidygraph

• Rename Columns

• Gosset part 2: small sample statistics

• Shiny Tip: Choose Where to Run App with an Option

• Mediation, confounding, and measurement error

• A full RStudio Server setup for Data Science in 5 minutes

• Data Pivoting with tidyr

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Tokyo.R #82, October 26

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

• 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.

Datasets

• NHS-R Community datasets package released

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

An Rstudio shortcut everybody should know is Alt + Shift to create a multiline cursor. Huge time saver for code formatting! #rstats pic.twitter.com/s9EQMRk8kT

— Edwin Thoen (@edwin_thoen) October 11, 2019

#Rstats: Repeated measures ANOVA is traditionally a horrible nightmare in R. The `afex` package changes this. Easily specify a rm-model that gives identical results to SPSS using `afex::aov_car`. Automatically applies the GG correction.

install.packages("afex")#phdchat pic.twitter.com/aUPwoVSvcQ

— Guy Prochilo 🏳️‍🌈 (@GuyProchilo) October 12, 2019

Does anyone else have an #rstats thing (or things) they have to Google literally every time, even though they use it a lot? 🙃 🙃 🙃 I probably use this at least once a month and it still won't stick pic.twitter.com/nWpJfbnfne

— Emma Vitz (@EmmaVitz) October 11, 2019