R Weekly 2018-25 Art, Angry, PDF

18 Jun 2018

Highlight

• R Consortium is soliciting your feedback on R package best practices

• Data + Art STEAM Project: Initial Results

• A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R.

• Getting data from pdfs using the pdftools package

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• Package {inplace}: In-place Operators for R

• The ssh Package: Secure Shell (SSH) Client for R

Package Releases

• rcheology - data on functions in base packages for previous versions of R - now includes data for R 3.5.0.

• ggseas - ‘stats’ for Seasonal Adjustment on the Fly with ‘ggplot2’

Insights

• R 3.5.0 on Debian and Ubuntu: An Update

• R Consortium is soliciting your feedback on R package best practices

• People vs. Institutions in Data Analysis

R in the Real World

• Simple audio classification with Keras

• Birding Game of Thrones (by ear): an RShiny app for people who like identifying birds by ear and need an excuse to watch (or rewatch) Game of Thrones.

• Exploring the Isle of Man TT using R

• An ode to King James

• Using magick, tidyverse and rvest to animate changes in football kits

• German news media on Twitter. Analysing unique tweets that containing news links.

• A graphical summary of the tweets generated during CarpentryCon 2018, Dublin.

• Could an Independent Yorkshire Win the World Cup (6-part)

• my presentation at the April Atlanta R Users meetup

• Exploring specimen collections data in Butte County, California

• Exploring European attitudes and behaviours using the European Social Survey

• Working with Your Facebook Data in R

• A World Cup 2018 primer, with graphs!

• Beautiful Visualizations in R

• Retracing Prenatal Testing Algorithms

R in Academia

• Data + Art STEAM Project: Initial Results

Resources

• A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R.

• Bootstrapping and Permutation Testing: A Shiny App

Videos and Podcasts

• DataFramed episode 26 with Jenny Bryan

R in Organizations

• Hotfix for Microsoft R Open 3.5.0 on Linux

Tutorials

• Why loops are slow in R

• Semantic Search in R: Latent Semantic Analysis

• Step-by-step tidy and minimal approach to processing nested JSON data fetched with query URLs directly grabbed from a dashboard via DOM inspector

• Interpreting machine learning models with the lime package for R

• Getting data from pdfs using the pdftools package

• R Tip: use isTRUE()

• Animating mode variability with tidyverse and tweenr

• Late anniversary edition redux: conditional vs marginal models for clustered data

• Principal Component Analysis

• Detecting unconscious bias in models, with R

• Build httr Functions Automagically from Manual Browser Requests with the middlechild Package

• Anomaly Detection in R

• Statistics Sunday: Creating Wordclouds

• When “learning Python” Becomes “practicing R” (Spoiler)

• Getting data from pdfs using the pdftools package

• R Tip: Be Wary of “…”

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 7eme Rencontres R July 5 & 6
  Rennes - Agrocampus

• useR! 2018 July 10
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.

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

This week’s local R-User and applied stats events (week of 2018-06-04)

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

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Quotes of the Week

Like @statsgen , I am also excited to be talking at the first @RLadiesSydney event next Wednesday! Sneak peak: all of the things in R my Stats degree never taught me! Being a good statistician does not automatically mean being good at R/Data Science! (and vice versa) #rstats pic.twitter.com/f6BXZ3oeUL

— Sarah Romanes (@sarah_romanes) June 14, 2018