R Weekly 2018-9 Funding, Keras

26 Feb 2018

Highlight

• Announcing the second round of ISC Funded Projects for 2017

• Deep Learning Image Classification with Keras and Shiny

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• Jan 2018: “Top 40” New Package Picks

GitHub only

• An RStudio Addin to help debug pipe chains

Videos and Podcasts

• DataFramed Ep. 10 Data Science, the Environment and MOOCs with Roger Peng

Resources

• An awesome curated list of blogs built using blogdown

• Course materials for the ITS course TRAN5115, Sustainable Spatial Planning and Analysis (SSPA)

• ViewPipeSteps, Create tabs of View() output for each chained pipe

R in Organizations

• rOpenSci Vancouver Community Meetup: Transforming science through open data and software

• Announcing the second round of ISC Funded Projects for 2017

R in the Real World

• Creating conversation heaRts for Valentine’s Day

• Simpsons Characters - A tidy text analysis

• Markdown based web analytics? Rectangle your blog

• Imposter syndrome

Insights

• Blog about something you just learned

• rstudio::conf 2018 Highlights

• How I started with R

• Xie Yihui, R Superstar and Mensch

• I am not a Data Scientist - My R journey

Tutorials

• Combine your hex stickers with magic(k)

• R’s S3 generic-function object-oriented system

• An introduction to joint modeling in R

• dplyr, mclapply, for loop and speed

• Packages for Getting Started with Time Series Analysis

• Troubleshooting Package Install Issues

• Stop Using Excel to Preprocess E-Prime Data

• String Encoding and R

• Internal Packages for Common Data Manipulations

• autoplotly - One Line of R Code to Build Interactive Visualizations for Statistical Results

• Use R to calculate derivatives of formulas and empirical data

• Play by Play: Adding RSVP Tracking to RLadies meetupr PACKAGE (A Github Experience)

• A short post on some rjson/jsonlite tweaking.

• This post shows, with an example and a small simulation, that model selection bias can make typical significance testing methods invalid.

• Visualizing Distributions & Linear Discriminant Analysis using Shiny

• R Tip: Use qc() For Fast Legible Quoting

• Convex Hulls part 3

• R package serrsBayes

• R Tip: Use seq_len() to Avoid The Backwards Sequence Bug

• Theory free tidyeval

• Overlapping lines

• webmockr: mock HTTP requests

• Deep Learning Image Classification with Keras and Shiny

• R Tip: Use seq_len() to Avoid The Backwards Sequence Trap

• A Twist of Hygge in xaringan

• Convex Hulls part 4

• Motor policy price comparisons – comparing apples with oranges

• Random Fractal Maps: Software Comparison

• R Tip: Use [[ ]] Wherever You Can

• Machine Learning in R with TensorFlow

• “I have to randomize by cluster. Is it OK if I only have 6 sites?”

• R Tip: Force Named Arguments

• Finding the top rail-trails in each state using mixed effects models

• Analyzing accelerometer data with R

• ggraph all grown up 🎈🦒

• Is R base::subset() really that bad?

• How to set up a sparklyr cluster in 5 minutes

• Do tweeps with more followers follow tweeps with more followers?

• Thoughts to Words - An Introduction to Aaron Simumba’s Website

• Generating Certificates of Attendance Using R

• Hello JS in R Markdown

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• merge() gains new option no.dups and by default suffixes the second of two duplicated column names, thanks to a proposal by Scott Ritchie (and Gabe Becker).

• NAMEDMAX has been raised to 3 to allow protection of intermediate results from (usually ill-advised) assignments in arguments to BUILTIN functions. Package C code using SET_NAMED may need to be revised.

• The undocumented hidden objects .__H__.cbind and .__H__.rbind in package base are deprecated (in favour of cbind and rbind).

• Arithmetic with data frames gives a data frame for ^ (which previously gave a numeric matrix).

• read.table() with non-default separator now supports quotes following a non-whitespace, matching the behavior of scan().

• Writing R Extensions now documents the R_tryCatch, R_tryCatchError, and R_UnwindProtect functions.

Upcoming Events

• satRday Cape Town 2018 March 17
  satRday Cape Town

• 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, 2018 Portland, OR, US

• 7eme Rencontres R 5 & 6 July 2018
  Rennes - Agrocampus

• useR! 2018 July 10, 2018
  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

• rOpenSci unconf18 self-nominations, deadline 2018/03/08

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

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Did you know that @rstudio has a real-time LaTeX equation previewer? Create a math block with $$ in your R Markdown document to try it out. #rstats pic.twitter.com/TneXdaOVJW

— RStudio Tips (@rstudiotips) February 16, 2018

Mapping in @plotlygraphs for #rstats is becoming 🌎-class. Be on the look-out for announcement next week. Major thx to @edzerpebesma @RConsortium for simple features! pic.twitter.com/vmFZ6TcB4U

— Carson Sievert (@cpsievert) February 23, 2018

Who is significat? She adds asteriskez to your p-valuez! @jo_hardin47 @hspter @robinson_es #rcatladies #rstats pic.twitter.com/pQXsnplDKW

— Charlotte Wickham (@CVWickham) February 23, 2018