R Weekly 2018-51 pdftools, remedy

17 Dec 2018

Highlight

• pdftools 2.0 - powerful pdf text extraction tools

• remedy - Package for easier Markdown writing

Insights

• Unprotecting by Value

• How to give money to the R project

• transformr: Age of Spatial

• Reflections on the 10th anniversary of the Revolutions blog

R in the Real World

• Visualizing Hurricane Data with Shiny

• Optimizing Wedding Reception Seating Charts

• It was twenty years ago …

• Rsampling Fama French

• My Physiological Response to my PhD Defence: Acute and Chronic - a.k.a. A dataviz self-portrait, and an introduction to rwithings

• Draw maps like paintings

Resources

• In case you missed it: November 2018 roundup

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• {remedy} is now on CRAN

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Rlandsat - R Package for Landsat 8 Data

• understatran - R package to make getting tidy data from understat simple and fast

• RQuantLib 0.4.7 - Now with corrected Windows library

Updated Packages

• pdftools 2.0 - powerful pdf text extraction tools

• R/exams 2.3-2 - one-for-all approach to automatic exams generation

• confint3: 2-Sided Confidence Interval (Extended Moodle Version) - Exercise template for computing the 2-sided confidence interval

Tutorials

• A New Stereoscopic MountSpectacular: We implement a 3D pipeline using base R functionality only, and use it to generate analygraphs and stereograms of the much beloved volcano.

• Updated: ggmap tutorial. A ggmap tutorial has been updated to show solutions for issues related to the changes in Google Maps Static API access behavior.

• Principle Component Analysis and K-Means Clustering

• R:case4base - Sorting data with base R

• R packages - internal and external data

• covrpage, more information on unit testing

• Confidence intervals for GLMs

• The Role of Theory in Data Analysis

• Generating reasonable starting trees for complex phylogenetic analyses

• Sharing Modeling Pipelines in R

• Parallel processing to add a little zip to power simulations (and other replication studies)

• Quality Surrogate Variable Analysis

• Intuition for principal component analysis (PCA)

• Confidence intervals for GLMs

• GEOCOMPUTATION WITH R - THE AFTERWORD

• Code for case study - Customer Churn with Keras/TensorFlow and H2O

• How to deploy a predictive service to Kubernetes with R and the AzureContainers package

• Geocomputation with R - the afterword

• How to solve a business problem using data. A step by step approach to breaking down your business problem into a less intimidating data problem.

• Reusable Pipelines in R

• Twins on the up

• running plot [and simulated annealing]

• Gift ideas for the R lovers

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.

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Quotes of the Week

Turns out it is possible to write a full #3D rendering pipeline using base #rstats only.

1/n pic.twitter.com/c4yw79KNwb

— BrodieG (@BrodieGaslam) December 14, 2018

Of all the excellent, easy ways to quickly summarize a dataframe in #RStats,
view(dfSummary(data)) is my favorite. It's in the summarytools package. https://t.co/XAyh99TaAt pic.twitter.com/BaqZvUIFNS

— Darren L Dahly (@statsepi) December 13, 2018