R Weekly 2017-28 UseR! 2017

10 Jul 2017

Highlight

• Announcing the rOpenSci Fellowships Program

• Teach the tidyverse to beginners

• Don’t Put Secure Data or Keys in R Packages or Scripts; Use the New ‘secret’ Package on CRAN

UseR! 2017

• UseR! 2017 Slides - edit on GitHub

• UseR! 2017 Schedule

• Teaching data science to new useRs

• Parallel Computation in R: What We Want, and How We (Might) Get It - blog post

• Back from useR!2017: a summer to-do list

• mapedit - Interactive manipulation of spatial objects

• ompr - An alternative way to model mixed-integer linear programs

• FFTrees - An R package to create, visualize, and evaluate fast-and-frugal decision trees

• Automatic machine learning with R

• Haskell, R, and HaskellR: Combining the best of two worlds

Insights

• Teach the tidyverse to beginners

• A long-overdue xts release, with a new plot.xts()!

• Beyond %>%, Alternative Pipes in R

• Don’t Put Secure Data or Keys in R Packages or Scripts; Use the New ‘secret’ Package on CRAN

• Accelerating ggplot2: use a canvas to speed up rendering plots

• Introducing tidygraph

R in the Real World

• Reproduce and animate the Wall Street Journal measles vaccination incidence chart using R

• Analysis of my Spotify Listening History using R.

• Using tidycensus and leaflet packages to map US census data

• Build a shiny chat app in no more than 15 minutes and less than 100 lines of R code.

• Don’t Forget to Reproject Spatial Data when Exporting to GeoJSON

R in Academia

• Postdoctoral opportunity at IARC

• Project opportunity in Natural Language Processing of historical texts in Portuguese

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD 42 - One Piece PJs - Hilary and Roger discuss the paradigm-shifting Echo Show, whether we need explainable AI or not, and how lessons from DevOps could be useful in analysis development.

R in Organizations

• The Stanford Open Policing Project

• Stan Weekly Roundup, 7 July 2017

• Announcing the rOpenSci Fellowships Program

Resources

• tweetstorm

• A Byte Code Compiler for R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• mindr - R package which converts markdown files into mindmaps

• shinysense - A bunch of shiny modules that let shiny sense the world around it.

• shiny.collections - Google Docs-like live collaboration in Shiny

• aargh - Easily Expose R Functions to Command Line Arguments.

• fcuk - A package designed to help people with clumsy fingers

• ggplot2 explorer - undestand how to use the most popular vizualization package ggplot2.

• auk - eBird Data Extraction and Processing

Package Releases

• smooth v2.0.0 - Forecasting Using Smoothing Functions

R Internationally

• (Spanish) Predicting demand for urban services using open data + Facebook Prophet

Tutorials

• Join Dependency Sorting

• Family violence and economic deprivation in New Zealand

• Inaugural Address Analysis:Part3 Using shiny and networkD3

• Excluding rows

• Tidy Time Series Analysis, Part 1

• Go Slices

• More Companies using R

• Launching webrockets at runconf17

• How perceptions of R have changed

• Finding my Dropbox in R

• Communicating trends and detail on the same dataviz with interactive visuals in R

• Deep Learning and Drones

• Set Theory Ordered Pairs and Cartesian Product with R

• Accelerating ggplot2: use a canvas to speed up rendering plots

• Internal Software: Why Build Internal Software?

• Go Game Can Help You Improve Your Skills In Analytics and Programming.

• Working With R and Big Data: Use Replyr

• Generalized Additive Models

• XGBoost support added to Rattle

Gist & Cookbook

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• CRAN Policy Change new rev3695

• regexec(pattern, text, *) now also applies as.character(.) to its first two arguments, as documented.

• The list method of within() gets an option keepAttrs = FALSE for speed up.

• system and system2 now allow to specify a timeout (this feature is currently experimental and subject to change).

• The version of LAPACK included in the sources has been updated to 3.7.1, a bug-fix release.

• write.table() and related functions, writeLines(), and perhaps other functions writing text to connections did not signal errors when the writes failed, e.g. due to a disk being full. (PR#17243)

• debug() supports debugging of methods on any "genericFunction", including group generics.

• The default for tools::write_PACKAGES(rds_compress=) has been changed to "xz" to match the compression used by CRAN.

Upcoming Events

• useR! 2018 July 10, 2018
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Quotes of the Week

I don't speak Ukrainian, but these #rstats charts are gorgeous https://t.co/LcZV9owQAe Thanks @AndriyGazin to provide the R code 👍#dataviz pic.twitter.com/7LNHzgMhQT

— Duc Quang Nguyen (@duc_qn) June 26, 2017

.@rabaath: "For a long time, lowerCamel and period.sep were most common naming conventions in CRAN.

Then the tidyverse happened"#UseR2017 pic.twitter.com/TdrTrNX578

— David Robinson (@drob) July 6, 2017