R Weekly 2018-16 Questions, Readings, Inferences

16 Apr 2018

Highlight

• Stack Overflow questions around the world

• Readings in applied data science

• Statistical Inference: A Tidy Approach - Slides for short course at the New England Statistical Symposium.

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• promises - Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming

• pkgnet - Get Network Representation of an R Package

GitHub or Bitbucket

• klrfome - Kernel Logistic Regression on Focal Mean Embeddings, for solving the distribution regresion problem

Package Releases

• future 1.8.0 - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone

• tint 0.1.0 - Styles provided by the tufte package.

• Shiny Server (Pro) 1.5.7

• CRANalerts: Get email alerts when a CRAN package gets updated

Resources

• Readings in applied data science

• Developing Your First R Package: A Case Study with esvis

• Turning your PhD (or other research project) into an R package

• The Little Book of LDA - An Overview of Latent Dirichlet Allocation

• Statistical Inference: A Tidy Approach - Slides for short course at the New England Statistical Symposium.

• R-ecology-lesson - Data Carpentry R lessons on ecology.

Insights

• .rprofile: Noam Ross

• Dissecting R Package “Utility Belts”

R in Organizations

• Package Licensing: Would the R Community like some help? Feedback from the trenches

R in the Real World

• Does Congress Really Care About Your Privacy?

• Exploring the Relationship Between Dog Names and Breeds

• Where aRe the Rufous Hummingbirds?

• Analysis of sleep data with R.

• Web scraping from Wikipedia with rvest and topic modelling with LDA

• My first Shiny app, scaling ingredients for buttermilk pancakes

• Exploring Tuberculosis Monitoring Indicators in England; Using Dimension Reduction and Clustering (with fingertipsR)

• Extending DT child rows example

• How do the different character-to-datetime convertors in R perform?

• Stack Overflow questions around the world

• Struggle with Harry Potter Data

Tutorials

• Regular Expressions Every R programmer Should Know

• A short tutorial on how to create interactive maps with popup images using leaflet.

• Convert epub to Text for Processing in R

• Forcing Yourself to Make Your Life Easier

• In case you missed it: March 2018 roundup

• How to use dplyr’s mutate in R without a vectorized function

• Solving the 8 queens problem

• R Tip: Use match_order() to Align Data

• Get basic summary statistics for all the variables in a data frame

• Weighted survey data with Power BI compared to dplyr, SQL or survey

• Neglected R Super Functions

• Introduction to Fama French

• Generating Executable ASCII art

• The case for R, for AI developers

• An R vlookup? Not so silly idea

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• dput() and dump() are no longer truncating when options(deparse.max.lines = *) is set.

• Interrupts can be suspended while evaluating an expression using suspendInterrupts. Subexpression can be evaluated with interrupts enabled using allowInterrupts. These functions can be used to make sure cleanup handlers cannon be interrupted.

• R 3.5.0 includes a framework that allows packages to provide alternate representations of basic R objects (ALTREP). The framework is still experimental and may undergo changes in future R releases as more experience is gained. For now, documentation is provided.

• mantelhaen.test() no longer suffers from integer overflow in largish cases, thanks to Ben Bolker’s PR#17383.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• New York R conference Aprl 20-21
  New York R conference, Discount Code : rladies

• 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.

Call for Participation

• CarpentryCon - May 30 - June 1 at University College Dublin. Conference about how to teach and communicate ideas effectively.

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Quotes of the Week

Today in #rstats things I should have figured out sooner: automatic text wrapping in the @rstudio script editor is a thing! For all your obnoxiously long comment reminders to yourself... pic.twitter.com/FX8tm9zGRr

— Angela Li (@CivicAngela) April 10, 2018

Today in #rstats things I should have figured out sooner: automatic text wrapping in the @rstudio script editor is a thing! For all your obnoxiously long comment reminders to yourself... pic.twitter.com/FX8tm9zGRr

— Angela Li (@CivicAngela) April 10, 2018