R Weekly 2018-45 Version, Communicating, Certification

05 Nov 2018

Highlight

• What R version do you really need for a package?

• Communicating results with R Markdown

• RConsortium — Building an R Certification

Insights

• RStudio IDE Custom Theme Support

• Thoughts on the NHS-R conference

• What R version do you really need for a package?

• The role of academia in data science education

• The Data Person as Project Manager

• An Introduction to Hierarchical Modeling

R in the Real World

• Election Hacking: Exploring 10 Million Tweets from the Russian Internet Research Agency Dataset

• RConsortium — Building an R Certification

• Celebrate Halloween with Creepy Computer Games in R

• In Support of Open Seeding in the NBA

• Fringe FM conversation on AI Ethics

• Neural networks, the Lee-Carter Model and Large Scale Mortality Forecasting

R in Organizations

• R-users & Community: give us your feedback on a R Certification to teach & verify skilled R Professionals

• Sharing the Recipe for rOpenSci’s Unconf Ice Breaker

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• crfsuite for natural language processing

GitHub or Bitbucket

• shinipsum - Lorem-Ipsum-like Helpers for fast Shiny Prototyping

Package Releases

• RcppAnnoy 0.0.11 - Annoy is a small, fast and lightweight library for Approximate Nearest Neighbours.

• RcppTOML 0.1.5 - Small extensions

• RcppRedis 0.1.9 - Provide R with read and write access to the Redis key-value store.

• Azure ML Studio now supports R 3.4

R Internationally

• Análise do discurso dos candidatos, Fernando Haddad e Jair Bolsonaro

• Manuel d’analyse spatiale — Théorie et mise en oeuvre pratique avec R

Tutorials

• Visualising scheduled tasks on Windows with R

• How to perform merges (joins) on two or more data frames with base R, tidyverse and data.table

• Communicating results with R Markdown

• alternatives to bar charts for multiple observations

• Use the collateral package 📦 to automatically map complex operations safely or quietly, and quickly see the captured side effects!

• Writing a CV in markdown so it can be rendered as HTML, a PDF, and a Word document

• Scatterplot matrices (pair plots) with cdata and ggplot2

• Conway’s Game of Life in R: Or On the Importance of Vectorizing Your R Code

• Play with spatial tools on 3D cells images

• Is the answer to everything Gaussian?

• Bootstrap Testing with MCHT

• Analysis essentials: An example directory structure for an analysis using R

• carbonate

• Machine Learning Basics - Random Forest

• Creating fractals with ggplot2 and patchwork

• reprex-ing with {datapasta} 🍝

• Use Pseudo-Aggregators to Add Safety Checks to Your Data-Wrangling Workflow

• How to Create a Correlation Matrix in R

• namer, Automatic Labelling of R Markdown Chunks

• facet_inception()

• Spooky! Gravedigger in R

• Quick overview on the new Bioconductor 3.8 release

• Automated Email Reports with R

• From webscraping data to releasing it as an R package to share with the world: a full tutorial with data from NetHack

• Feature Selection with the Boruta Algorithm

• The blocks and rows theory of data shaping

• collateral

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 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

What does this #rstats code do if you run it in your head? (i.e. predict the result without using R or looking at the docs)

switch("b", a = 1, b = , c = 3)

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) November 1, 2018

Visualizing interstate migration for 2018-Q1 with #mapdeck.
Hit this link to play >> https://t.co/5go820muLO #rstats pic.twitter.com/p3xqMvFWQx

— Samuel Wong (@SamueL_WonG_) October 31, 2018

🧐Trying out ggplot 3.1.0's new features in my own, spatial way. #rstats

(just built facet support into 🕶️#rayshader's 3D ggplots) pic.twitter.com/Kjk0dz2irA

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) October 30, 2018