R Weekly 2018-46 Rcpp 1.0, Tesseract

12 Nov 2018

Insights

• Happy 10th Bday, Rcpp – and welcome release 1.0 !!

• Winners Take All in the Dependency World (or Hell)

• Things are Getting Better and Better

• In-database xgboost predictions with R

• The Two Surprisingly Hard Things about the Otherwise Simple Markdown

• My Biggest Regret in the knitr Package

• On Cosmetic Changes in Pull Requests

R in the Real World

• The Gamification Of Fitbit: How an API Provided the Next Level of tRaining

• Escaping the macOS 10.14 (Mojave) Filesystem Sandbox with R / RStudio

• Linear Programming in R

• T-mobile uses R for Customer Service AI

• Working with US Census Data in R

• Seeking Paired Fish Age Estimates

• Analyzing NetHack data, part 2: What players kill the most

• Voronoi Diagram with ggvoronoi Package with Train Station Data

Package Releases

• Tesseract 4 - State of the art OCR in R

• RStudio 1.2 Preview - New Features in RStudio Pro

• Rcpp 1.0.0 - The Tenth Birthday Release

• anytime 0.3.2 - Convert Any Input to Parsed Date or Datetime

Tutorials

• How to Highlight 3D Brain Regions in R

• Why should I use the here package when I’m already using projects?

• Exploring Models with lime

• R can API and So Can You!

• R tip: Make Your Results Clear with sigr

• New FSA Authors

• Integrating R and Telegram

• Beyond Univariate, Single-Sample Data with MCHT

• Minitypes - vector type conversion

• Suppressed data (left-censored counts) by @ellis2013nz

• Shiny App: Drive Time Isochrones

• Causal mediation estimation measures the unobservable

• Parsing a favicon with {minitypes}

• How do neural nets learn? A step by step explanation using the H2O Deep Learning algorithm.

• More on sigr

• A knot of threads: from CSHL to LCG-UNAM to Aldo Barrientos to diversity scholarship opportunities

• Image segmentation based on Superpixels and Clustering

• threed - 3d object transform library

• AzureR: R packages to control Azure services

• out of desperation

• 4 ways to be more efficient using RStudio’s Code Snippets, with 11 ready to use examples

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

I made a firework with #rstats and gganimate! But the accidents along the way are at least as interesting as the final result. (1/n) pic.twitter.com/cmxVyX7EU0

— Edward Visel (@alistaire) November 11, 2018

*Sees colleague importing data into R*

my brain:

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me: You really should use read *underscore* csv from the readr package in the tidyverse! #rstats

— Sean Kr🦃ss (@seankross) November 11, 2018