R Weekly 2019-34 LondonR, gargle, Pokémon

26 Aug 2019

Highlight

• LondonR: Hadley Wickham & tidyverse’s greatest hits

• What Types Should You Have on Your Pokémon Team? Efficient Simulation with Matrices in R!

• $50,000 in New Grants Approved

• {gargle}: The goal of gargle is to take some of the agonizing pain out of working with Google APIs

Insights

• What Types Should You Have on Your Pokémon Team? Efficient Simulation with Matrices in R!

• PassSonar: Visualizing Player Interactions in Soccer Analytics

• LondonR: Hadley Wickham & tidyverse’s greatest hits

R in the Real World

• Visualizing Soccer with StatsBomb Data and R, Part 1: Simple xG and Pass Partner Plots!

• Generating Oxford Comma triples, and sequenced BibTeX entries using the Tidyverse

• Rcpp now used by 1750 CRAN packages

R in Organizations

• $50,000 in New Grants Approved

• Introducing Open Forensic Science in R

• Organize Why R? 2019 pre-meeting in your city

Resources

• Elevated blood lead level test results (St. Louis, MO) visualizations

• ggplot2 book 3rd edition

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {clean}: cleaning and checking data columns in a fast and easy way!

• {tidycells}: Read Tabular Data from Diverse Sources and Easily Make Them Tidy!

• {gargle}: The goal of gargle is to take some of the agonizing pain out of working with Google APIs

• {ragg}: AGG library for R

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {pinpoint}: Interactively explore and compare a distribution of numeric points

Updated Packages

• {googledrive 1.0.0}

• {RcppQuantuccia} 0.0.3

• {RSwitch} 1.3.0

• {RcppExamples} 0.1.9

• {clean} 1.1.0 Fast and Easy Data Cleaning

Tutorials

• Learn to purrr

• Fun with progress bars: Fish, daggers and the Star Wars trench run

• A New Website by Noam Ross

• ggplot visualization of conditional inference trees

• Visualizing the relationship between multiple variables

• Tutorial on processing volcano video data using the imagefx package.

• Spurious correlations and random walks

• Geographic projections and transformations

• Changing the variable inside an R formula

• Where do p-values come from? Fundamental concepts and simulation approach

• Modern Reporting or R with Dash.

• How to setup a blog using the distill RStudio package

• Detecting outlier samples in PCA

• Dash with golem: First contact

• How to get an AUC confidence interval

• How to Use CSS to Style Your R Shiny Projects

• Notes on Becoming an RStudio Certified Trainer

• Quick Hit: A new 64-bit Swift 5 RSwitch App

• Eliminating Tail Calls in Python Using Exceptions

• Polyglot FizzBuzz in R (Plus: “Why Can’t Johnny Code?”)

• Inferring a continuous distribution from binned data

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• R/Medicine 2019, September 12 - 14

• LatinR 2019, Santiago de Chile, September 25 - 27 - Latinamerican Conference About the Use of R in R&D

• Why R? 2019 Conference - Warsaw 26-29 September 2019

• rOpenSci OzUnconf (Sydney, Australia), December 11 - 13 2019

• 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

Added an #rstats pep talk to my syllabus to assuage fears pic.twitter.com/EciFlMuUza

— Andrew Heiss, PhD (@andrewheiss) August 24, 2019