R Weekly 2018-28 Tidyverse, R Markdown, Docker

16 Jul 2018

Highlight

• Teaching R to New Users - From tapply to the Tidyverse

• Announcing the R Markdown Book

• DockeR for the UseR - Slides, Code, and Resources from a talk at nyhackr.org

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• muHVT - Constructing Hierarchical Voronoi Tessellations and Overlay Heatmap for Data Analysis

• phylogram - dendrograms for evolutionary analysis

Package Releases

• R 3.5.1 update now available

• ggspatial 1.0.0 - A ggplot2 R extension for plotting Spatial* objects

• sitmo 2.0.0 - Header-only suite of Parallel Pseudo Random Number Generators (PPRNGs)

• searcher 0.3.0 - a search interface to look up terms on search engines and development websites from R.

• cetcolor 0.2.0 - Perceptually Uniform Color Maps with Support for Colour Blind Users and Short Names

Insights

• Announcing the R Markdown Book

• The Ten Commandments for a well-formatted database

• ggplot2 Welcome viridis !

• Teaching R to New Users - From tapply to the Tidyverse

R in the Real World

• Challenges visualising climate extremes with Leaflet

• World Income, Inequality and Murder

Resources

• In case you missed it: June 2018 roundup

Videos and Podcasts

• SuperDataScience171 - Deep dive into R Programming & R Studio. In this episode, Kirill chatted with the Director of Solutions Engineering for RStudio, Nathan Stephens about analytics infrastructure & how this can be used in the data lab and the production environment.

R in Organizations

• HavanaR Workshop 2018

R Internationally

• ANOVA à un facteur : quand les hypothèses ne sont pas satisfaites

• Quand un langage de Data Science se met à faire du web

Tutorials

• Happy dev with {purrr}

• DockeR for the UseR - Slides, Code, and Resources from a talk at nyhackr.org

• Shaded contour lines or Tanaka method with R

• Image Manipulation for Machine Learning in R

• How the odds ratio confounds: a brief study in a few colorful figures

• Communicating with UDP Sockets from R

• Zomato in New Delhi and K-means

• One Little Thing: Embed a File in the HTML Output of R Markdown

• Do You Have to Use FontAwesome or Other Libraries for Web Symbols?

• Only One Person Can Help You with That

• R Markdown: The Definitive Guide

• The User-Developer Spectrum in the R Ecosystem

• Setting up RStudio Server, Shiny Server and PostgreSQL

• Dealing with heteroskedasticity; regression with robust standard errors using R

• Speed up your R Work

• a thread to bin them all [puzzle]

• Read data with multiple header rows into R

• Ikeda map (fractal)

• The Ten Commandments for a well-formatted database

• New open data sets from Microsoft Research

• LIBD rstats club remote useR!2018 notes

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

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

• 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

People often ask why dplyr & tibble don't support row names. I've (finally) written up my reasons at https://t.co/UmZjaSk7UX #rstats (photo credit: @hspter) pic.twitter.com/IVbaVmKhYp

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) July 13, 2018

super useful #rstats thing i realized today:

if you--like me, a Fool--accidentally print some huge output to your console instead of assigning it to an object, you can run `mything <- .Last.value` to avoid re-running your script. RT to save a life*

*(a few minutes, probably)

— Brooke Watson (@brookLYNevery1) July 11, 2018