R Weekly 2019-16 protect, solutions, packrat

22 Apr 2019

Highlight

• Common PROTECT Errors

• Advanced R Solutions

• Accessing OpenStreetMap data with R

• Docker and Packrat

DataCamp

For context, see last week issue

• An Exchange with DataCamp

• Boycott DataCamp

• Writing a Letter to DataCamp

• R community blasts DataCamp response to exec’s ‘inappropriate behavior’

• Before you take my DataCamp course please consider this info

• Standing with our Code of Conduct

Resources

• Features Engineering Art using R

• Advanced R Solutions

Insights

• What Docs When

• Common PROTECT Errors - The R Blog

• Technical Debt in Data Science

R in the Real World

• Using R To Analyze The Redacted Mueller Report

• Animating the US Treasury yield curve rates

• Exploratory data analysis using mock draft data from the 2018 NFL Draft.

R in Organizations

• When Standards Go Wild - Software Review for a Manuscript

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• dbparser - dbparser: ‘DrugBank’ Database XML Parser

GitHub or Bitbucket

• gganonymize - Anonymize the labels and text in a ggplot2

• rray - Simple Arrays and Matrices

Updated Packages

• rversions 1.1.0 - Query ‘R’ Versions, Including ‘r-release’ and ‘r-oldrel’

• attempt 0.3.0 - Easy Condition Handling

• tint 0.1.2 - A ‘tufte’-alike style for ‘rmarkdown’.

• plotly 4.9.0

R Internationally

• the Spanish R Users conference - XI Jornadas de usuarios de R. 14 Nov 2019, Madrid Spain.

• China-R Beijing 24 May - 26 May

Tutorials

• How to create ‘Warming Stripes’ in R

• Setting up RStudio Server on a Cloud for Collaboration and Reproducibility

• Going back to the basics: the correlation coefficient

• Implementing the Super Learner with tidymodels

• Docker and Packrat

• Number Lines in Code Blocks with RMarkdown

• Tidy correlation tests in R

• Exploring R Packages - plyr

• Download and Email reports in R Shiny app

• Edit datatables in R shiny app

• A Detailed Guide to Plotting Line Graphs in R using ggplot geom_line

• Bayesian Survival Analysis with Data Augmentation

• Calculating the distance to the sea in R

• Understanding Bayesian Inference with a simple example in R!

• Access to climate reanalysis data from R

• Accessing OpenStreetMap data with R

• RStudio Package Manager 1.0.8 - System Requirements

• Piping is Method Chaining

• Custom contrasts in emmeans

• Even with randomization, mediation analysis can still be confounded

• Controlling Data Layout With cdata

• Tukey, Design Thinking, and Better Questions

• The Redacted, Text-Extracted Mueller Report

• Are Google Earth Engine analyses reproducible?

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.

Datasets

• The Redacted Mueller Report

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

Exciting news! Live, on-the-fly spell checking is now available in @rstudio v.1.3.118, download it from https://t.co/Yl5GlH6UnB An important new feature for anyone who does professional or scholarly writing in #rstats markdown. Thanks @CMastication for the tip! pic.twitter.com/b7efIgaPNE

— Ben Marwick (@benmarwick) April 20, 2019

Did u know that we can make memes in R ? What a 😅 #rstats pic.twitter.com/lQ6De0qS6L

— Nur Azmi Prasetyo (@Nurazmip98) April 19, 2019

One of my favorite @rstudio shortcuts: Ctrl+I. If your code is misaligned/messy for whatever reason, RStudio will clean it right up for you. #rstats pic.twitter.com/BzPaPhP9Zl

— Kyle Walker (@kyle_e_walker) April 15, 2019