R Weekly 2019-27 R artefacts, reordering, ggchicklet

08 Jul 2019

Highlight

• A Short Essay on Duplicated R Artefacts

• Reordering and facetting for ggplot2!

• Make Refreshing Segmented Column Charts with {ggchicklet}

Insights

• A Short Essay on Duplicated R Artefacts

• 79th TokyoR Meetup: {tidyr} 1.0.0, RAW image processing, and more!

• Imagine Your Data Before You Collect It - R Views

• Why I Love data.table

• {glue} magic: Part 1

R in the Real World

• Celebrating £1.4bn for the Global Fund - Trying out gganimate on Tuberculosis data from getTBinR

• Text Parsing and Text Analysis of a Periodic Report (with R)

• Optimal Transport on Large Networks: A Practitioner Guide

• Comrades Marathon (2019) Splits

• Exploring {gt} with useR! 2019 Schedule

R in Organizations

• BioC2019 Notes

• BiocWorkshops2019

• Updates on Microsoft’s R Roadmap in Azure

Resources

• useR! 2019 Schedule! (Made with {gt} & {flexdashboard})

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• jSDM: Joint Species Distribution Models in a hierarchical Bayesian framework

• economiccomplexity Methods Used in the Economic Complexity Literature

GitHub or Bitbucket

• twittercache: Robust sampling of a Twitter network

Updated Packages

• odin: ODE Generation and Integration

• NNLM: Fast and Versatile Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

• factorMerger: The Merging Path Plot

Tutorials

• How to make stunning 3D Plots for better storytelling?

• Build Thousands of Automated Demand Forecasts in 15 Minutes Using AutoCatBoostCARMA in R

• Reordering and facetting for ggplot2!

• How to pick a random number from 1-10

• Experimentation with Unsupervised Learning

• Make Refreshing Segmented Column Charts with {ggchicklet}

• Replicating a Linear Model

• Communication between modules and its whims

• Making a Cheat Sheet with Rmarkdown

• Curly Curly: How to pass bare variable arguments to things?

• Exploring The Guardian’s “The Knowledge” Football Trivia (June 2019)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• useR2019

• TokyoR #80, July 27

• Mexico CDSB Workshop 2019, July 29 - August 2 - How to Build and Create Tidy Tools

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

• 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

tidyverse getting a lot of heat lately. I was a died-in-the-wool #rstats base user until about two years ago. Here’s what changed.
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[terrible gifs warning] pic.twitter.com/wdc3tAxoEM

— alastair rushworth (@rushworth_a) July 6, 2019

Thanks @alistair604 for pointing me towards ggdag, an incredibly powerful tool to visualize graphs in #rstats.

Just look at this: So little code, so much amaze!! @lindanab1 @SachaEpskamp @MaartenvSmeden https://t.co/PLjKzr0DU5 pic.twitter.com/sIRzXo5Spt

— Eiko Fried (@EikoFried) July 2, 2019