R Weekly 2018-41 Video, r2d3, SQL

08 Oct 2018

Highlight

• The av Package: Production Quality Video in R

• r2d3 - R Interface to D3 Visualizations

• RStudio 1.2 Preview: SQL Integration

R in Organizations

• Community Call - Code Review in the Lab, or … How do you review code that accompanies a research project?

R in the Real World

• Visualizing the Weather in Japan: A Sweltering Summer Story!

• Spookify: Halloween Name Generation in R

• This article looks at the R or Python question through the lenses of a digital analyst

• Automate away the boring parts of organising (journal club) meetings using R and Google Sheets

• Why Equity Requires Looking Beyond Averages: A Look at Minneapolis Public Schools

• Scraping twitter data to visualize trending tweets in Kuala Lumpur

• Rent-scraping: How I saved money using R

Insights

• Chromebook Data Science - a free online data science program for anyone with a web browser.

• Using R Markdown and papaja with a LaTeX class to submit a conference proposal: A few notes

• limiting dependencies in R package development

• Some Thoughts on R / Pharma 2018

• My Journey into Data Science

Resources

• A few upcoming R conferences

• In case you missed it: September 2018 roundup

• List of courses teaching R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• r2d3 - R Interface to D3 Visualizations

• outcomerate - Transparent Communication of Quality in Social Surveys

• av - Production Quality Video in R

• tinkr - editing Markdown documents using XML tools

GitHub or Bitbucket

• caseconverter - RStudio Addin to convert text cases to lower, upper, snake, and camel cases

Package Releases

• RStudio 1.2 Preview - SQL Integration

• MLflow v0.7.0 - Features R API by RStudio. Log, track, tune, and annotate your model.

• RcppAPT 0.0.5

• sparklyr 0.9

• nanotime 0.2.3

• Rcpp 0.12.19 - Seamless R and C++ Integration

• littler 0.3.5 - Other kids broke my toys

Tutorials

• How Big Should the Control Group Be in a Randomized Field Experiment?

• Host your own Shiny Server on Azure

• Fitting exponential decays in R, the easy way

• Nice point maps using sf and ggplot2

• Translating drawings into formulas, building a shiny app for it, and NOT using Deep Learning.

• Deep Learning for Time Series Forecasting: Predicting Sunspot Frequency with Keras

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

• How to Build a Logistic Regression Model from Scratch in R

• Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R

• Manifold Visualization: Polynomials to the Rescue

• Memoisation

• Up your open source game with Hacktoberfest at Locke Data!

• Modeling muti-category Outcomes With vtreat

• Manifold Visualization: Second Example

• Short and sweet: temperature variability with ggridges 📦

• Using LZ4 and Zstandard to compress files with saveRDS()

• A Tale of Two Shiny Apps: Google Auth & ShinyProxy

• Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R

• Adding strings in R

• Speed Up With Microsoft

• Exporting editable plots from R to Excel: making ggplot2 purrr with officer

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

• A few upcoming R conferences

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

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Quotes of the Week

Story of my life. #RStats pic.twitter.com/cZSms1COh2

— Colin Fay 🤘 (@_ColinFay) October 3, 2018