R Weekly 2018-33 Diversity, Books

13 Aug 2018

Highlight

• rstudio::conf(2019) diversity scholarships

• The best books on Computer Science for Data Scientists recommended by Hadley Wickham

• scales 1.0.0 - Scale Functions for Visualization

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• GeomMLBStadiums - Geoms to draw MLB stadiums in ggplot2

GitHub or Bitbucket

• causalpie - An R Package for easily creating and visualizing sufficient-component causal models

Package Releases

• fitur 0.6.0 - Fit Univariate Distributions

• RQuantLib 0.4.5 - Windows is back, and small updates

• scales 1.0.0 - Scale Functions for Visualization

Insights

• The best books on Computer Science for Data Scientists recommended by Hadley Wickham

R in Organizations

• rstudio::conf(2019) diversity scholarships

• August 2018 ISC Call for Proposals

R in the Real World

• The Trillion Dollar Question

• Redmonk Language Rankings, June 2018

• IEEE Language Rankings 2018

• Wrangling Wikileaks DMs

• Digging into mbox details: A tale of tm & reticulate

• Time to Accept It: publishing in the Journal of Statistical Software

• Write a Book with bookdown and Publish with Chapman & Hall

• Reflections on 25+ Years of “50 Years of Data Science”

• Hotels vs Airbnb - Barcelona case study (proof of concept)

Resources

• In case you missed it: July 2018 roundup

Tutorials

• Everything I know about R subsetting

• ggplot2 stat_summary problem

• Collecting Expressions in R

• Home sweet dome

• Guidelines For Ab Testing

• Meta-packages, nails in CRAN’s coffin

• Extracting and Processing eBird Data

• What they forgot to teach you about R

• phylotaR: Retrieve Orthologous Sequences from GenBank

• MODIStsp approved on rOpenSci!

• Leading indicators of economic growth

• Installation of R 3.5 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and tips for spatial packages

• Beyond Basic R - Plotting with ggplot2 and Multiple Plots in One Figure

• Because it’s Friday: A data center under the sea

• How to (quickly) enrich a map with natural and anthropic details

• Double Negatives

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

Made this with mapdeck while working on some project. Thought sharing a video is more compelling than sharing an image. #rstats pic.twitter.com/8vB5fY2ZNW

— Samuel Wong (@SamueL_WonG_) August 4, 2018

Visualize the vertical change of your 🚴‍♀️ bike/running routes with 🕶️#rayshader! Proof of concept: #rstats pic.twitter.com/tkNt7S4WSw

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) August 2, 2018