R Weekly 2018-34 Best Practices Badge, Medicine

20 Aug 2018

Highlight

• CII Best Practices Badge for R Packages – responding to concerns

• R/Medicine Conference

R in Organizations

• What’s new with R Consortium funded projects in Q2 2018

• R/Medicine Conference

• TokyoR #71

R in the Real World

• Stories from YouTube Trend Video

• rstudio::conf diversity scholarships for the worth!

• Talking Google Analytics dashboards via R, Shiny and Text-to-Speech APIs

Resources

• Using Docker containers in R

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

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

GitHub or Bitbucket

• mscstts - Make R speak

Package Releases

• Microsoft R Open 3.5.1

• sergeant 1.14.0 - Apache Drill connector Package

• Mongolite 2.0 - GridFS, connection pooling, and more

• RcppArmadillo 0.9.100.5.0 - an interface from R to and from Armadillo

Tutorials

• Decouple Code and Output in xaringan slides

• Create GIFs with gifski in knitr Documents

• Beyond Basic R - Mapping

• Remaking ‘Luminance-gradient-dependent lightness illusion’ with R

• R on Kubernetes - serverless Shiny, R APIs and scheduled scripts

• Exploring Seinfeld Dialogues using tidytext

• 3 strategies to parallelize R code on Kubernetes.

• Animating common data wrangling approaches using gganimate

• Topic Modelling of Trustpilot Reviews with tidytext

• Get Started with landscapemetrics

• Deep dive into ggplot2’s boxplots

• Mid Table Mediocrity

• gganimate with sprites

• Evaluating Olive McBride with the Arkham Horror LCG Chaos Bag Simulator in R

• In-brief: splashr update + High Performance Scraping with splashr, furrr & TeamHG-Memex’s Aquarium

• Where to go observe birds in Radolfzell? An answer with R and open data

• data.table is Really Good at Sorting

• Time series intervention analysis with fuel prices

• Multivariate ordinal categorical data generation

• Announcing Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition

• The Law and Order of Data Science

• Remaking ‘Luminance-gradient-dependent lightness illusion’ with R

• CII Best Practices Badge for R Packages – responding to concerns

• Relative risk ratios and odds ratios

• Create GIFs with gifski in knitr Documents

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• SatRday Aug 31-Sept 1
  Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• LatinR 2018 Sept 4-5
  Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• Econometrics and Statistics using R Sept 10-14
  Lisbon, Portugal.

• 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

Here is the video. I got a bit bored with 2D maps. So, I made this with mapdeck in R. Aggregating 9000+ lat. lng. to highlight the density of Airbnb listings in Hong Kong. #rstats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/03aWcK5rp9

— Samuel Wong (@SamueL_WonG_) August 14, 2018