R Weekly 2019-25

24 Jun 2019

Release Date: 2019-06-24

Highlight

• The joy of functional programming

• Videos of NYR 2019

• Feature Engineering and Selection: A Practical Approach for Predictive Models

Insights

• Feature Engineering and Selection: A Practical Approach for Predictive Models

• The joy of functional programming

• A Gentle Introduction to tidymodels

• A Guide to R for Excel Users

• Calculating and visualizing error bars for within-subjects designs

• Plotting mixture models, part 2: sum of gaussians

• Solving Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Regression using Gradient Descent

• Why I migrated from Excel to R

• SQL Server Database connections in R

• SQL 101 in R

R in the Real World

• Visualizing the Copa América: Historical Records, Squad Profiles, and Player Profiles with xG statistics!

• THE 10 TYPES OF BEATLES SONG

R in Organizations

• Videos of NYR 2019

R in Academia

• Teaching replication in archaeology

• Code repository and raw data for Ebihara et al. 2019. “Growth Dynamics of the Independent Gametophytes of Pleurorosiopsis makinoi (Polypodiaceae)” Bulletin of the National Science Museum Series B (Botany) 45:77-86.

Resources

• The Promise and Perils of Packaging Your Processes (slides)

• Introducing tsibbledata

• Free R (Shiny app): A collection of books about the R programming language and Data Science, that you can read for free!

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• git2rdata: Store and Retrieve Data.frames in a Git Repository

• basetheme: Themes for Base Graphics Plots

• tsibbledata: Diverse Datasets for ‘tsibble’

GitHub or Bitbucket

• bbcharts: An interface to the Billboards Top Charts

• holepunch: Make your R project Binder ready

• sortable: R htmlwidget for Sortable.js

• learndrake: An R package that teaches drake

• bcdata: An R package for searching & retrieving data from the B.C. Data Catalogue

Updated Packages

Videos and Podcasts

• Noam Ross - Reproducibility in an Office World: Tools for Crossing the Abyss

Gist & Cookbook

R Internationally

Tutorials

• Changing Glyph in legend in ggplot2

• A Printable Custom Weekly Planner with ggplot2

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• TokyoR #79, June 29th

• useR2019

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

• 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

Jobs

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

Here's a fun #rstats design pattern I've become more and more fond of: use magrittr's %T>% tee operator to keep returning the original value in the chain of functions so you can do multiple things at once, like saving a ggplot in multiple formats pic.twitter.com/yUF1WKEtjP

— Andrew Heiss, PhD (@andrewheiss) June 20, 2019