R Weekly 2018-17 Successful, Arrow, Maintainers

23 Apr 2018

Highlight

• What is a Successful Data Analysis?

• Arrow and beyond: Collaborating on next generation tools for open source data science

• How many CRAN package maintainers have been pwned?

R in Organizations

• Wanted: Your input on the next generation of R-Hub

• What’s new with R Consortium funded projects in Q1 2018

• The 2018 author and reviewer survey

• Summer Interns

• Arrow and beyond: Collaborating on next generation tools for open source data science

Package Releases

• ggimage 0.1.4 - setting ggplot2 background with ggbackground

• ggfortify 0.4.4 - Data Visualization Tools for Statistical Analysis Results

• RKWard 0.7.0 - the R GUI/IDE RKWard for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux

• uncmbb 0.2.0 - UNC Men’s Basketball Match Results Since 1949-1950 Season

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• sealr - Sealing the R Objects Test and Assert Conditions

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Financial Asset Comparison Tool - compare a myriad of financial assets (equities, crypto-currencies) using a variety of metrics.

• collegeballR - Package for accessing/analyzing college sports stats

R in Academia

• An R package for sensitivity analysis (konfound)

Resources

• Digging deeper: online resources for intermediate to advanced R users

• git to know git: an 8 minute introduction

Insights

• #18: Adding Intel MKL easily via a simple script

• By Request: Retrieving Your Feedly “Saved for Later” Entries

• Process versus outcome productivity

• Some web API package development lessons from HIBPwned

• What is a Successful Data Analysis?

R in the Real World

• Examining POTUS Executive Orders

• How many CRAN package maintainers have been pwned?

• Perform web scraping and analysis of 400.000 articles published by newsbeast.gr (one of the main on-line publishers in Greece)

• Animated directional chord diagrams for migration data

• Naked – South Africa’s Lemonade?

• A Recession Before 2020 Is Likely; On the Distribution of Time Between Recessions

• Uber overtakes taxis in New York City

Tutorials

• rename phylogeny tip labels in treeio

• [How to] Write a purrr-like adverb

• Monkeying around with Code and Paying it Forward

• Painless ODBC + dplyr Connections to Amazon Athena and Apache Drill with R & odbc

• Making a GIF of Solar Panel Installations in Minnesota and Wisconsin

• Guidelines for making plots for beginners

• A short tutorial on how to arrange a irregularly spaced raster stack into a regular time series to be used in the Breaks For Additive Season and Trend (bfast) function.

• A revisit on the last blog about webscraping and topic modelling, this time with more data and an SVM thrown in as well.

• Investigating Ranks, Monotonicity, and Spearman’s Rho with R

• Machine learning pipelines for R

• {pmice}, an experimental package for missing data imputation in parallel using {mice} and {furrr}

• Dynamic Online Tests with Blackboard and R/exams

• How do I make my own dplyr-style functions?

• a [Gregorian] calendar riddle

• R Tip: Use Slices

• Reticulated Shiny

• Le Monde puzzle [#1049]

• Draw maps like paintings

• Testing multiple interventions in a single experiment

• Upcoming speaking engagments

• Yet Another Caret Workshop

• Adding Zero Catches

• Latin American R/BioConductor Developers Workshop 2018

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

• Simulate! Simulate! - Part 2: A linear mixed model

• R:case4base - data filtering and ordering with base R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• removeSource() now works not only for functions but also for some language objects.

• optim(*, lower = c(-Inf, -Inf)) no longer warns (and switches the method), thanks to a suggestion by John Nash.

• axis() gets new option gap.axis = NA for specifying a multiplication factor for the minimal “gap” (distance) between axis labels drawn. Its default is 1 for labels parallel to the axis, and 0.5 for perpendicular ones.

• Calls with an S3 class are no longer evaluated when printed, fixing part of PR#17398, thanks to a patch from Lionel Henry.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• eRum 2018 May 14-16
  European R Users Meeting @ Budapest, Hungary

• 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 past events at R conferences & meetups.

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Quotes of the Week

Pretty pleased with my new .Rprofile customisation ✨

😎#rstats #superpowers #thelittlethings

Wanna customise yours too? 👉 usethis::edit_r_profile() pic.twitter.com/wNslgCk1eR

— annakrystalli (@annakrystalli) 16 d’abril de 2018

“Turned up to fancy dress party 🎉! And wished my #RLadies #rstats buddies were there! So I didn’t have to explain my awesome costume choice!” #LegoRLady #rstats 💜💛😎 #dplyr pic.twitter.com/NcYP1ZXzGs

— LegoRLady (@LEGO_RLady) 18 d’abril de 2018