R Weekly 2018-50 Survey, vitae

10 Dec 2018

Highlight

• Learning R Survey

• vitae - Creating vitae templates

Insights

• Learning R Survey

• condition control: I just want that message once

• Gender Diversity in the R and Python Communities

R in the Real World

• Number of births in the twentieth century

• Who is doing more with less? A look into Premier League performance and market value.

• Ages of New Zealand Prime Ministers in an XKCD graph

• Porting my blog to use the new radix package

• Solving #AdventOfCode with R - day 1-2 and day 3-4

• A Holiday RStudio Theme

• Statistics in Glaucoma: Part I - Part I and Part II

• Making a Profit with Henry Wan in Arkham Horror: The Card Game

R in Organizations

• R community update: announcing useR Delhi December meetup and CFP

• AzureVM: managing virtual machines in Azure

• Community Call - Governance strategies for open source research software projects

Resources

• JapanR Conference 2018 Round-up!

• Duke’s SSRI Lab has been developing a free 7-part DataCamp series on Causal Inference with R. - Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3

• One Recipe Step to Rule Them All

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

GitHub or Bitbucket

• rchie - Parser for ArchieML: Structured text, for an unstructured world, with Google Docs support!

• phon - a package for rhymes etc

Updated Packages

• vitae - Creating vitae templates

• jsonlite - A Robust, High Performance JSON Parser and Generator for R

Tutorials

• generic functions and methods. A simple introduction.

• Tweaking colours with the shades package

• DBnomics R client, a tutorial

• Simple functions that allow correct display of references in tables in RMarkdown documents

• How to improve your visualizations in R

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

• How to create a heatmap - step by step-

• Introduction to chartbookR

• Simulating dinosaur populations, with R

• Because it’s Friday: If planets were as close as the moon

• How to test any hypothesis with the infer package

• What hyper-parameters are, and what to do with them; an illustration with ridge regression

• restez: Query GenBank locally

• Animate Xaringan Slide Transitions

• Very Non-Standard Calling in R

• Detecting spatiotemporal groups in relocation data with spatsoc

• Make your own ggplot2-themed clock. The ggclock!

• Running an R script on heroku

• rnoaa: new data sources and NCDC units

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

How do you welcome newcomers into a community? One thing we do at #RLadies Chicago is R Tours! Each Meetup, one organizer gets beginners set up with @RStudio and shows them some #rstats basics. It's a way to make our Meetup accessible to all https://t.co/Jclla8Zj4L pic.twitter.com/svI7yXMVRh

— R-Ladies Chicago (@RLadiesChicago) December 7, 2018