R Weekly 2018-52 tidyverse, r-lib

24 Dec 2018

Highlight

• tidyverse and r-lib: a year in review

• Word associations from the Small World of Words

• R 3.5.2

Insights

• Advent of Code: Most Popular Languages

• rcites - The story behind the package

• Thoughts on the M4 Conference

• tidyverse and r-lib: a year in review

R in the Real World

• Clustering Bruce Springsteen albums with spotifyr

• How to realise plots and wordclouds on the bibliographic references gathered during my PhD thesis.

• Word associations from the Small World of Words

• Analysing and plotting my heart rate and sleep patterns in the days before, during and after my PhD defence

• Christmas tree in ggplot

• The Netflix Data War

Resources

• AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: December 2018

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• R 3.5.2

• November 2018: “Top 40” New Packages

• AzureStor - working with Azure storage

Updated Packages

• BH 1.69.0-0 - pre-releases and three required changes

• linl 0.0.3 - A LaTeX Letter class for rmarkdown

• Spelling 2.0 - Improved Markdown and RStudio Support

• lobstr 1.0.0 - Visualising R data structures with trees

• readxl 1.2.0 - The readxl package makes it easy to get data out of Excel and into R

• httr 1.4.0 - A wrapper for the curl package, customised to the demands of modern web APIs

Tutorials

• Functional Programming helpers from purrr and friends, part 1

• How to parameterise a prior when all you know is the mean and one other percentile.

• How to create a heatmap in R

• 4 ways to be more productive, using RStudio’s terminal

• How to use tryCatch for robust R programming

• Writing R functions that pass arguments into parameterized SQL queries.

• What Does R Value?

• Manipulate dates easily with lubridate

• Quoting Concatenate

• h3jsr: Probably should have learned more JavaScript instead >.>

• Transforming PDF’s into Useful Tables

• vtreat Variable Importance

• Statistics in Glaucoma: Part III

• Iterating with names

• Rotary

• Using the tidyverse for more than data manipulation: estimating pi with Monte Carlo methods

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 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

💡For like... I don't know, years, every time I wanted to _pull_ out a column from a data frame, I would do this
mtcars %>% .$mpg
Today I discovered this awesome function in dplyr
mtcars %>% pull(mpg)
🎩 tip @shian_su 🎉🎉🎉 #rstats #thingsthatmakemehappy #yourewelcome

— Stephanie Hicks (@stephaniehicks) December 21, 2018