R Weekly 2018-22 ggplot2, eRum, Unconf 2018

28 May 2018

Highlight

• April 2018: “Top 40” New Packages

• ggplot2 2.3.0 — upcoming release

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• vcr: record and replay HTTP requests

• April 2018: “Top 40” New Packages

GitHub or Bitbucket

• altair - R interface to ‘Altair’

Insights

• ggplot2 2.3.0 — upcoming release

• Reflections on the ROpenSci Unconference

• My eRum 2018 biggest highlights

• taxize: seven years of taxonomy in R

• Context Compatibility in Data Analysis

• Calculating New/Returning Students with Factors and dplyr

• R/exams @ eRum 2018

R in the Real World

• An Analysis of Texas High School Academic Competition Results, Part 1 - Introduction

• Animate your Strava activities in R using rStrava and gganimate

Package Releases

• Rcpp 0.12.17: More small updates

• RcppGSL 0.3.5

Resources

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

Tutorials

• Draw colored pencil maps with R.

• Create Code Metrics with cloc

• Video: speeding up R with parallel programming in the cloud

• This guide has basic to advanced levels of charts & graphs useful to display the data using R Programming.

• Circluar plots in R and adding images.

• How to use an R interface with Airtable API

• A little function to help generate ICCs in simple clustered data

• Learning R vs Learning a Spoken Language

• sample_n_of(): a useful helper function

• How Many Factors to Retain in Factor Analysis

• Finalfit, knitr and R Markdown for quick results

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• R/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
  Applied Finance with R.

• CascadiaRConf June 2 Portland, OR, US

• 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.

More upcoming events the week of May 21 at community.rstudio.com.

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

ggplot2 2.3.0 is scheduled to be submitted to CRAN on June 25 📈🎉💅📊. Please try out the dev version and let us know if you have any problems! https://t.co/dlHSYdp9mp #rstats

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) May 21, 2018

late night #plotswithchristine: my "strip plot" aka "barcode plot" #dataviz of Hogwarts House mentions, now with all 7 #harrypotter books! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ fun fact: Slytherin&Hufflepuff mentioned first, thx to Draco Malfoy (quote in reply)

data & code here https://t.co/8McFfXGca8 pic.twitter.com/hYtFd2Q71Q

— Christine Zhang (@christinezhang) May 26, 2018

Are you even making figures in #rstats if you don't have >10 browser tabs open with google results for various "how to do this", "how to change that" questions? The real secret to mastering R = Google everything. Someone likely already thought of it before you did #phdchat

— Jaimi Gray (@jaimiAgray) May 24, 2018

Somebody should come up with an R function 'lenght' that does the same as 'length'. Urgently. #rstats #coder

— Frederik De Laender (@frederikDL) May 23, 2018

Thank you to all#runconf18 #rstats pic.twitter.com/GSWpo3vwrf

— Mauro Lepore (@mauro_lepore) May 23, 2018