R Weekly 2019-19 R 3.6.0, countdown, R-Podcast

13 May 2019

Release Date: 2019-05-13

Highlight

• What’s new in R 3.6.0

• countdown

• R-Podcast Episode 30: Origins and Future of RStudio with Tareef Kawaf - Eric is joined by RStudio’s president Tareef Kawaf to discuss his journey to RStudio, building a robust organization structure, and how an open-core model drives RStudio’s vision for the present and future.

Insights

• Speedmining the Cubing Community with dbplyr

• a perfectly normally distributed sample

• countdown

• Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 2: Drug resistance testing

• Introducing RStudio Server Pro 1.2 - New Features, Packaging, and Pricing

• Introducing RStudio Team

• Open Trade Statistics

• Porting and redirecting a Hugo-based blogdown website to an HTTPS-enabled custom domain and how to do it the easy way

• What is “Tidy Data”?

R in the Real World

• Get me to the church on time: Proving to the vicar that I’d attended church often enough to marry at church, using Google location data.

• Data-driven design in Curious City: In, Out, Above, Beyond Saint Paul

• Machine Learning with a Heart

• Taking a Peek at Personal Hiking Data

• How to visualize data with more than 2 dimensiones: some basic concepts and examples

• My experience at R UnConference Chicago

Resources

• satRdays Chicago 2019 slides

• Network Visualization workshop - David Schoch

• Free online r course

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {attachment} is on CRAN !

• jpndistrict 0.3.3

• vroom 1.0.0

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Introducing ‘asciicast’ - some utilities for the asciicinema animation format

Updated Packages

• RcppArmadillo 0.9.400.3.0

• x13binary 1.1.39-2

• future 1.13.0 - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone

• future.batchtools 0.8.0 - A Future API for Parallel and Distributed Processing using ‘batchtools’

• PSCBS 0.65.0 - Analysis of Parent-Specific DNA Copy Numbers

• rmdfiltr - ‘Lua’ filters for R Markdown

• attachment - Deal with Dependencies

• tabplot - Tableplot, a Visualization of Large Datasets

• batchscr - Batch Script Helpers

• todor - Find All TODO Comments and More

• RVenn - Set Operations for Many Sets

• paws - Amazon Web Services Software Development Kit

• paws.analytics - Amazon Web Services Analytics APIs

• paws.machine.learning - Amazon Web Services Machine Learning APIs

• shinylogs - Record Everything that Happens in a ‘Shiny’ Application

• gtsummary - Presentation-Ready Data Summary Tables

• radlibs - Build Your Own Madlibs!

Videos and Podcasts

• R-Podcast Episode 30: Origins and Future of RStudio with Tareef Kawaf - Eric is joined by RStudio’s president Tareef Kawaf to discuss his journey to RStudio, building a robust organization structure, and how an open-core model drives RStudio’s vision for the present and future.

Tutorials

• Learn about the R package we use internally at Auth0 for ETL / Data analysis. How we use it for data warehousing, analyzing data and making it available for other teams.

• Practical Introduction to Market Basket Analysis - Asociation Rules

• Customising ggplot2 graphics

• Tadpoles on Tensorflow: Hierarchical partial pooling with tfprobability

Datasets

• ensemblepp - Ensemble Postprocessing Data Sets

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core

• What’s new in R 3.6.0

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• useR2019

• China-R Beijing 24 May - 26 May

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

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Quotes of the Week

Just pushed up {redoc}, a #rstats 📦 for *reversible* reproducible documents. redoc() your .Rmd, edit in Word, dedoc() it back. Built-in diffing, Critic Markup/track changes support, & RStudio plugins! https://t.co/NKveunM8Kz. Feedback and contributions welcome! 🙏 #rstatsnyc pic.twitter.com/xOXNYO5CgQ

— Noam Ross (@noamross) May 11, 2019

Just merged: {data.table} dev supports I/O (fread+fwrite) for CSVY (https://t.co/eKhbSZhhAo) format! 🎉

We've all dealt with our share of inscrutable CSV files; we hope facilitating some basic metadata in the file header will be part of a trend towards cleaner non-binary data!

— Michael Chirico (@michael_chirico) May 11, 2019

If you're having date problems
I feel bad for you son
You should meet my friend ISO
Eighty-Six Oh One

— Sean Kross (@seankross) June 2, 2017