R Weekly 2018-40 Animating, Arrow, Tables

01 Oct 2018

Highlight

• What Are We Plotting, What Are We Animating

• Why do we use arrow as an assignment operator?

• Fall 2018: ISC Call for Proposals

• Give your tables some style with the formattable package!

R in Organizations

• Fall 2018: ISC Call for Proposals

• Chat with the rOpenSci team at upcoming meetings

R in the Real World

• Why Equity Requires Looking Beyond Averages - A Look at Minneapolis Public Schools

• Mapping the 2018 East Africa floods from space with smapr

• The complex process of obtaining Puerto Rico mortality data: a timeline

• XKCD “Curve Fitting”, in R

• Sri Lanka visitor arrivals

Insights

• What Are We Plotting, What Are We Animating

• Why do we use arrow as an assignment operator?

Resources

• Bootstrapping and Permutation Testing: A Shiny Dashboard

• R developer’s guide to Azure

• August 2018: Top 40 New Packages

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

GitHub or Bitbucket

• elite - scraping hockey data from EliteProspects in a [fairly] tidy manner for the purpose of analysis

• ggtextures - Drawing textured rectangles and bars with ggplot

Package Releases

• binb 0.0.2: Now with presento

• getTBinR 0.5.5 - Get WHO Tuberculosis Data, 2017 TB data now available.

Tutorials

• Give your tables some style with the formattable package!

• Going Down to South Park—Text Analysis with R

• Tuning a data preprocessing pipeline with recipes and modelgrid

• What Are We Plotting, What Are We Animating

• Import a directory of CSV files into a single data frame using {fs}, {purrr}, and {readr}.

• A Subtle Flaw in Some Popular R NSE Interfaces

• Memoise with object size limit

• simstudy update: improved correlated binary outcomes

• A Better Example of the Confused By The Environment Issue

• Nonograms in R - ‘nonogram’ package

• 3-D shadow maps in R: the rayshader package

• Creating nonograms with ‘nonogram’ and ‘magick’ packages

• Writing a nonogram solver in R

• Quick Hit: Using the New Equal Earth Projection in R

• Combining data in R: the skill of merging, joining, and stacking

• More health economics in R

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 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

One last trick for the day: after webscraping you often get these vectors with punctuation and additional words, when you just want numbers. I find readr::parse_number() even shorter than regexing the digits out of it. 🎉 #rstats pic.twitter.com/C8XdKvkSAb

— We are R-Ladies (@WeAreRLadies) September 26, 2018

If you're waiting around for a long-running analysis in R, try adding a sound effect from "beepr" to your script. Not only will it cue you when your results are ready, it makes #rstats more fun. After all, who doesn't want to hear Mario's flagpole fanfare?
beepr::beep(sound = 8)

— Jeff Dahlke (@JeffreyDahlke) September 24, 2018