R Weekly 2018-24 Conflicted, Dockerise, Diversity

11 Jun 2018

Highlight

• conflicted - a new approach to resolving ambiguity

• On conduct and diversity in the R Community

• .rprofile: Julia Silge

• Dockerise and deploy your own R Archive Repo

• Unconf18 projects - 1, 2, 3, 4

R in the Real World

• Fair is foul, and foul is fair: a tidytext sentiment analysis of Shakespeare’s tragedies

• Hello, Dorling! (Creating Dorling Cartograms from R Spatial Objects + Introducing Prism Skeleton)

• Hand-crafted curation: meta-#SoDS18

• One Year Anniversary

• Making World Tile Grid-Grids

• Estimating mortality rates in Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria using newly released official death counts

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• conflicted - a new approach to resolving ambiguity

• ssh - Secure Shell (SSH) Client for R.

• xplain - Interactive interpretations and explanations of statistical results

BioC

GitHub or Bitbucket

• blogyaml - batch edit tags of Markdown based blog posts.

• rqdatatable - rquery Powered by data.table

Package Releases

• huxtable - creating HTML and LaTeX tables

• pinp 0.0.5 - Accomodate pandoc 2.*

• Microsoft R Open 3.5.0 now available

Insights

• On conduct and diversity in the R Community

• Trustworthy Data Analysis

• .rprofile: Julia Silge

Resources

• Keynote from the Cascadia 2018 R Conference on creatively learning for beginners and advanced users.

• R Datasets - 1,000+ datasets available through popular packages

R in Organizations

• Unconf18 projects - 1, 2, 3, 4

• Exploring, experimenting, and building software and trust at rOpenSci’s unconf18

R Internationally

• Webスクレーピングから可視化まで、Tidyverseパッケージで探索データ解析（EDA）!

Tutorials

• Animating a Monte Carlo Simulation

• The Potential Dangers of Using ‘Depends’

• Authorship Attribution with Widyr and Tidytext

• summarizing values from merged cells using dplyr, tidyr and tidy evaluation

• Monte Carlo

• Even Simpler SQL

• A closer look at replicate() and purrr::map() for simulations

• What’s new in Azure for Machine Learning and AI

• Dockerise and deploy your own R Archive Repo

• R interface to the Discogs API

• Testers for RFishBC

• maximal spacing around order statistics [#2]

• An introduction to machine learning with Keras in R

• Sentiment Use Across the Course of Pitchfork Music Reviews: A Tidy Text Analysis with R

• R functions for Bayesian Model Statistics and Summaries #rstats #stan #brms

• Fancy Plot (with Posterior Samples) for Bayesian Regressions

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 7eme Rencontres R July 5 & 6
  Rennes - Agrocampus

• useR! 2018 July 10
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.

• LatinR 2018 Sept 4-5
  Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This week’s local R-User and applied stats events (week of 2018-06-04)

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

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Quotes of the Week

ggplot2 has a lot (and I say A LOT) of theme customisation that I can't remember each time what the argument name was. I forgot that @rstudio can have addins and one of them makes the #ggplot theme customisation easier 🙂 #rstats pic.twitter.com/57khHf3zS6

— Emi Tanaka 🌾 (@statsgen) June 2, 2018

I don't usually share stuff like this but I kind of can't help myself in this case. Absolutely floored by comment from @xieyihui about my new R package, slidex, for converting slides from PPTX to #rstats #xaringan. WIP version here: https://t.co/jck4z0eTMU pic.twitter.com/0GNkWG1KhQ

— Daniel Anderson (@datalorax_) June 5, 2018

gganimate has reached the gapminder state of its development as transition_time() has been added #rstats

p + ... +
transition_time(year) +
ease_aes('linear') pic.twitter.com/Hz8azd1lio

— Thomas Lin Pedersen (@thomasp85) June 5, 2018

meme in #rstats pic.twitter.com/hmOJIcYc74

— Guangchuang Yu (@guangchuangyu) June 4, 2018