R Weekly 2019-11 R 3.5.3, R Consortium, chirunconf

18 Mar 2019

Highlight

• R 3.5.3 now available

• 2019 Update One: R Consortium and ISC Announce the Newest Funded Projects for the R Community

• #chirunconf

Insights

• R 3.5.3 now available

• Anonymous Functions in R (Part 1)

• 10 things R can do that might surprise you

• #20: Dependencies. Now with badges!

• RStudio 1.2 Preview: Jobs

• #chirunconf

R in the Real World

• Collecting Content Security Policy Violation Reports in S3 (‘Effortlessly’/’Freely’)

• Plotting Manager Elo Ratings by Club (Part 1)

• A Football Auto-Encoder with Keras

• Exploring Swings in Australian Federal Elections

• Exploring 11 Years of Chicago Blackhawk’s Data using Principal Components Analysis

• A case where prospective matching may limit bias in a randomized trial

• World population growth through time

• Mixing Up Your Office March Madness Competition

• What If Each State Allocated Their Electoral College Votes Proportionally?

R in Organizations

• 2019 Update One: R Consortium and ISC Announce the Newest Funded Projects for the R Community

Resources

• Unconference Toolbox - Just about everything you need to host your own unconference. Created at the 2019 Chicago R Unconference

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• ggasym - Asymmetric Matrix Plotting in ‘ggplot2’

• leafpm - Leaflet Map Plugin for Drawing and Editing

• waiter - Loading Screen for ‘Shiny’

• yum - Utilities to Extract and Process YAML Fragments

• rbin - a set of tools for binning/discretization of data

GitHub or Bitbucket

• footrulr - Compare sentences using Machine Translation and Text Summarization evaluation metrics

• brickr - 3D LEGO models and mosaics from images using R and tidyverse

• Anonymous Functions in R - Part 3: Introducing the ‘anon’ package`

• rlangtip - R package to generate a helpful tip about R

Updated Packages

• sparklyr 1.0: Apache Arrow, XGBoost, Broom and TFRecords]

Videos and Podcasts

• Credibly Curious Episode 7 (Moving) - Nick and Saskia discuss moving, RStudio Conference, hexbin plots and the scales package

• Not So Standard Deviations Episode 76 (Barely a Data Scientist) - Hilary and Roger discuss the other jobs of the data scientist, using notebooks, Getting Things Done (on paper), keeping packages on CRAN, and the Women in Data Science Conference.

Tutorials

• gt_examples - This is a small list with 25 visualizations using the gt package

• Unit Tests in R

• Wrangling Content Security Policies in R

• Math, code, concepts: A third road to deep learning

• A case study for Branch Network Optimization, using R as a GIS tool.

• Data Manipulation Corner Cases

• Create interactive ggplot2 graphs with plotly`

• group_split/map/modify() in dplyr 0.8.1 (still in development)

• Software Dependencies and Risk

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• satRday Johannesburg - 6th April

• satRday Newcastle - 6th April

• satRday Los Angeles - 6th April

• The Uncoast Unconference - 14th to 16th April

• 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

• satRday Chicago - 27th April

• Community Call - Research Applications of rOpenSci Taxonomy and Biodiversity Tools

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

The 2nd day of #chirunconf was filled w/ progress on many pkgs/issues.

People:
✅ completed their 1st PR
✅ made their 1st R pkg
✅ created their 1st Shiny app

But to me the best part was the people. We laughed. We ate. We learned. We rejoiced in the R culture and community! pic.twitter.com/kXHDawQm41

— Joshua Goldberg (@GoldbergData) March 11, 2019