R Weekly 2019-18 RMarkdown Driven Development, HIV

06 May 2019

Highlight

• RMarkdown Driven Development

• Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 1: HIV in sub-Sahara Africa

Insights

• Naming Software Packages with Common Words

• RMarkdown Driven Development

• Generative and Analytical Models for Data Analysis

• August 12, 1991 Review of S-PLUS Statistical Software

R in the Real World

• Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 1: HIV in sub-Sahara Africa

• Quebec floodable areas could use an update…

• What is the scope of NEON lakes data?

Resources

• Talk videos & slides from #satRdayJoburg (6 April 2019)

• How Do I? - A searchable list of data tasks referenced in the book “Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism”

R in Organizations

• RStudio 1.2 Released

• Availability of Microsoft R Open 3.5.2 and 3.5.3

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• Relaunching the qualtRics package

• inspectdf - Tools for Exploring and Comparing Data Frames

GitHub or Bitbucket

• runcharter

• devout - an ascii graphics output device

Updated Packages

• osrm

• serrsBayes

• RcppArmadillo

• dbplyr

Videos and Podcasts

• Shiny Developer Series Episode 1 - In this special RStudio Community webinar recording, Eric and Curtis Kephart are joined by Winston Chang to discuss the past and future of Shiny, along with Winston’s recommendations on how software design principles can greatly enhance developing complex Shiny applications.

Tutorials

• Dog Breed Popularity Chart

• How I Put Logos on ggplot2 Figures

• Drawing Fractals with grid graphics - part 2

• Interact with PostGIS from R

• Building a Shiny App as a Package

• Introducing AzureGraph: an interface to Microsoft Graph

• Set Analysis: A face off between Venn diagrams and UpSet plots

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 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.

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

#Rstats: datapasta is SO COOL! Easily copy data from excel (or even html tables from the web) & paste in R as fully-formatted dataframes!

1. install.packages("datapasta")
2. Set a useful keyboard paste shortcuthttps://t.co/hq9mHtRj5B

With thanks to @FaustoBustos :)#phdchat pic.twitter.com/OqzHHZGsd0

— Guy Prochilo 🏳️ 🌈 (@GuyProchilo) April 29, 2019

Ok #rstats twitter, which one of you was spotted on 95 near philly yesterday? pic.twitter.com/VM7jcIrJ4p

— Alice Walsh PhD (@alicenotalice) April 30, 2019