R Weekly 2018-19 pkgdown, tweets, showcase

07 May 2018

Highlight

• pkgdown 1.0.0

• Seventeen Minutes From Tweet To Package

• DataVis showcase from Emi Tanaka

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• pkgdown 1.0.0

GitHub or Bitbucket

• advicegiveR: R wrapper for the advice slip API

• echarts4r - ECharts version 4 for R, a plethora of chart types customisable with innumerable options.

Package Releases

• March 2018: “Top 40” New Package Picks

• RcppArmadillo 0.8.500.0

• Microsoft R Open 3.4.4 now available

• Bioconductor 3.7 release and the DelayedArray framework

Resources

• DataVis showcase from Emi Tanaka

Insights

• Make the Right / Positive Things Easier to Do than Wrong / Negative Things

• Reflections from my first R package building experience!

• advicegiveR: Developing my first package!

• Seventeen Minutes From Tweet To Package

• Road Map for Choosing Between Statistical Modeling and Machine Learning

• Relationships in Data Analysis

R in Organizations

• How much work is onboarding?

R in the Real World

• Mapping hurricane search data from Google Trends

• Exploring the Meaning of AI, Data Science and Machine Learning with the latest Wikipedia Clickstream

• An analysis of the World Marathon Majors in the wake of Boston and London

• Create a Twitter bot for your local animal shelter using rtweet

• A look into U.S. infectious diseases

• Finding names in R packages which could be domain names (using rvest and the tidyverse)

• Three Twitter Threads

• Comparing dependencies of popular machine learning packages with pkgnet

• New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission Trip Data Analysis Using Sparklyr and Google Bigquery

Tutorials

• Installing Missing Packages from Bioconductor, CRAN and Github

• Structured vs. Text Data to predict Airbnb prices

• About Risks and Side-Effects… Consult your Purrr-Macist

• Riddler 27th April 2018

• How to setup and run R on Kubernetes including Shiny, OpenCPU and scheduled scripts

• For Excel workbook saving of a data frame (openxlsx): Using pmax() and apply() to set column widths based on the widest of header and body values

• Interpretable Machine Learning with iml and mlr

• Make a sculpture in LEGO from a photo, with R

• uint8 package for an unsigned 8bit integer type in R

• A particles-arly fun book draw

• Playing with #rstatsnyc, Neo4J and R

• How efficient are multifactorial experiments?

• Packaging Shiny apps - A deep dive

• Challenge: Adding Large Integers in R

• Do you really need a multilevel model? A preview of powerlmm 0.4.0

• Qualitative Data Science: Using RQDA to analyse interviews

• How to do Repeated Measures ANOVAs in R

• N is for N (Sample Size) Estimation: Power Analysis in R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• download.file() on Windows now by default also uses binary transfer (mode = "wb") for file extension .rds and in the case the file extension dot (.) needs URLdecode()ing. The help page ?download.file now contains the same information platform independently.

• Allow file argument of Rscript to include space even when it is first on the command line.

• callNextMethod() uses the generic from the environment of the calling method. Reported by Hervé Pagès with well documented examples.

• simulate.lm(glm(*, gaussian(link = <non-default>))) has been corrected, fixing PR#17415 thanks to Alex Courtiol.

• untar(file("<some>.tar.gz"), *) now gives a better error message, suggesting to use gzfile() instead.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• eRum 2018 May 14-16
  European R Users Meeting @ Budapest, Hungary

• R/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
  Applied Finance with R.

• CascadiaRConf June 2 Portland, OR, US

• 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.

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

• Join the r-spatial ladies! There’s a slack channel open to women and non binary folks interested in R for spatial data and a GitHub page with crowdsourced resources.

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

There is now officially a Font Awesome #RStats logo 🎉https://t.co/sAtvRM0uuY pic.twitter.com/N7AbwHpIIZ

— Colin Fay (@_ColinFay) May 3, 2018

The latest #ggplot2 has a `clip = "off"` option to allow drawing outside of the plot panel. This allows for all sorts of neat plotting tricks. E.g., direct labeling. ("Toyota Corolla" extends beyond the plot area.) #rstats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/kiqfj2M1iP

— Claus Wilke (@ClausWilke) May 2, 2018

Quicker than quick... Copy data in excel and straight into an R dataframe! I won't need this data ever again, so why bother saving and loading a file? #rstats #LearningNewTricks pic.twitter.com/ayeJqR3Hia

— Suzan Baert (@SuzanBaert) May 2, 2018