R Weekly 2019-39 reproducible workflows, machine learning, pipe connections

30 Sep 2019

Release Date: 2019-09-30

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

Highlight

• Community call: Reproducible workflows at scale with drake

• (Re)Launching my supervised machine learning course

• RStats tip #3 use pipe connections

Insights

• Why Do We Plot Predictions on the x-axis?

R in the Real World

• Biking in snow (smartwatch data) - (jechave.com)

• Who owns Montreal?

• Interactive globes for R, seamlessly integrated with shiny.

• 100% Stacked Chicklets

• Customer segmentation for R users

R in Organizations

• Super solutions for Shiny architecture 1 of 5 - using session data

• RSwitch 1.5.1 Released

R in Academia

• poor statistics

Resources

• (Re)Launching my supervised machine learning course

• JavaScript const in R

• More exploratory plots with ggplot2 and purrr: Adding conditional elements

• RStudio education website

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {stationaRy}: Detailed Meteorological Data from Stations All Over the World

• {timeperiodsR}: Simple Definition Of Time Intervals

• {gghalves}: Compose Half-Half Plots Using Your Favourite Geoms

• {CamelUp}: CamelUp Board Game as a Teaching Aid for Introductory Statistics

• {fairness}: Algorithmic Fairness Metrics

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Introducing the {hershey} package - raw data for the Hershey Vector Fonts`

• {fledge}: Streamline the process of versioning R packages and updating NEWS

• {applicable}: Quantify extrapolation of new samples given a training set

Updated Packages

• Updates to the rOpenSci image suite: {magick}, {tesseract}, and {av}

• {RcppAnnoy} 0.0.13

Videos and Podcasts

• Community call: Reproducible workflows at scale with drake

• Tidy Tuesday epsisode 5 - School Diversity

• RStats tip #3 use pipe connections

Gist & Cookbook

• xaringan-line-focus

Tutorials

• Drake, Docker, and Gitlab-CI

• A tutorial for a more convincing Leaflet visualizations from R - customizing markers, icons, color scales & HTML popups.

• Spatial networks in R with sf and tidygraph

R Project Updates

• GFortran Issues with LAPACK II

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 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.

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

The first hint that the next major release will be R v4.0.0https://t.co/zn1iivJSUB#rstats pic.twitter.com/8wEZgURp7a

— Henrik Bengtsson (@henrikbengtsson) September 27, 2019