R Weekly 2018-12 Reviewers, Names, Values

19 Mar 2018

Highlight

• Thanking Your Reviewers: Gratitude through Semantic Metadata

• Names and values - New chapter for Advanced #rstats that explains the distinction between names and values, and explains when copies happen.

• R 3.4.4 released

Resources

• R Users, what was something simple you learned late that you wish you learned early?

• Look up all base R functions from version 3.0.1 to 3.4.3

• New CRAN Task View for Model Deployment with R

• Names and values - New chapter for Advanced #rstats that explains the distinction between names and values, and explains when copies happen.

Package Releases

• R 3.4.4 released

• fitur 0.5.25 - Fit Univariate Distributions to d,p,q, r functions automatically

• Rcpp 0.12.16: A small update

Insights

• Thanking Your Reviewers: Gratitude through Semantic Metadata

• Dependencies and bloat

• Alternative Design for Shiny

• Don’t Use Spaces or Underscores in File Paths; Use Dashes Instead

• In case you missed it: February 2018 roundup

• The Many Faces of R

• An Ode to Testing, my first review

R in the Real World

• R rises to #12 in Redmonk language rankings

• Steel-ing a Makeover from Tariffic Post

• Gold diggers at the Olympics

• Simulating March Madness in R

• Bayesian extreme value analysis of my morning commute

• Nice ggplot with sad data: something happens with women in science

Tutorials

• Visualizing MonteCarlo Simulation Results: Mean vs Median

• Tidy Resampling Redux with Agricultural Economics Data

• Math Notation for R Plot titles: expression, bquote and greek letters

• Responsive iframes for Shiny Apps

• Exploratory Analysis – When to Choose R, Python, Tableau or a Combination

• R: simple for complex tasks, complex for simple tasks

• Use unique() instead of levels() to find the possible values of a factor in R

• Spatial clustering of personal belief exemptions for vaccines in California

• TSrepr use case - Clustering time series representations in R

• A tutorial on how to visualize regression models in R.

• R Tip: Use the vtreat Package For Data Preparation

• An Exploration of Simple Features for R

• The not so obvious value of build passing

• Making maps of the USA with R: alternative layout

• Embedding Google Data Studio into RMarkdown

• Take Care If Trying the RPostgres Package

• Textmate setup (Mac only)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Indexing a list using dollar and empty string (l$"") returns NULL.

• Some as.data.frame() methods, notably the matrix one, are now more careful in not accepting duplicated or NA row names, and by default produce unique non-NA row names. This is based on row.names(x, make.names = *) <- rNms where make.names is a new logical, with back compatible default.

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

• R-Ladies NYC April 2018 Book Club R-Ladies NYC are still gathering suggestions for the bookclub.

• LatinR 2018 Call for papers Abstract submission deadline: April 13, 2018.

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

almost finished: small package to read chess notation and convert the games into gifs using #rstats pic.twitter.com/f6JVeToWjT

— Robert Roberts (@robert_squared) March 13, 2018

Neat #rstats tidyverse trick for creating publication-worthy tables: add a "Totals" row with bind_rows(summarise_at()) before outputting a tibble with Markdown pic.twitter.com/mCnpbCQ3za

— Andrew Heiss (@andrewheiss) March 12, 2018

I think my #rstats students are getting the message, mostly.
The following poems made my day on Friday. pic.twitter.com/XQA2GBnTGf

— John Dwyer (@john_m_dwyer) March 10, 2018