R Weekly 2018-8 Environments, Diversity, Tidy Evaluation

19 Feb 2018

Highlight

• Explain R environments like I’m five

• R-Podcast Episode 24: Yihui Xie Returns (rstudio::conf 2018) Eric reconnects with the first-ever guest of the R-Podcast, RStudio software engineer Yihui Xie. In their conversation you’ll hear about Yihui’s journey since joining RStudio, his vision of how blogdown and bookdown could lead to a streamlined publishing worflow, and much more.

• Diversity scholarships for upcoming R conferences

• Tidy evaluation in 5 minutes

R in the Real World

• How to maraaverickfy a blog post without even reading it

• Using Flexdashboards to Monitor Clinical Research

• Happy Galentine’s Day! - Tidytext analysis on selected episodes of Parks & Recreation

• Exploratory data Analysis of US Fatal Police Shootings Since 2015

• Visualizing population growth rates and doubling times across the world with UN data

• Map prisons in the United States

• Meetup “Yes” RSVP tracking and ggplot graphing using Meetup API (inspired by rladies/meetupr package)

• The relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and electoral vote results - part 2

• Pym.js Library Vulnerability in widgetframe Package

• How to scrap data from YouTube channels/videos with the hope to gain some statistically driven insights into the notoriety of particular online content.

• Geocoding in NYC from R

• What sites do New York Times op-ed columnists link to? I used rvest, tidyverse, visNetwork to find out.

Insights

• Takeaways from the RStudio Conference

• Reflection: A year of R-Ladies #LdnOnt

• Recapping the best parts of the rstudio::conf 2018 in San Diego, CA.

• Sentiment Analysis of 5 popular romantic comedies - Short tutorial on analyzing a sentiment in romantic comedies and creating interesting data visualizations.

R in Organizations

• Evidence Synthesis Hackathon

• Diversity scholarships for upcoming R conferences

• Summer interns

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• cancensus - an R interface to access, retrieve, and improve working with Canadian Census data and geography. Site for documentation and examples.

• shinyalert - adding popup messages (modals) in Shiny. README for details or click here for a demo

• future.callr - Parallel processing via futures using the callr package as the parallel backend. Can be used anywhere in the future ecosystem, e.g. future.apply and doFuture (a foreach adaptor).

• Cluster.OBeu: Cluster Analysis ‘OpenBudgets’

GitHub only

• ghentr - tools to make it easier for you to build and share a private package-ecosystem using your instance of GitHub Enterprise [pkgdown site]

Package Releases

• future 1.7.0 - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone - now with even less friction and more power to the end user and the developer. … and future_lapply() has moved to the future.apply package.

• matrixStats 0.53.1 - Functions that Apply to Rows and Columns of Matrices (and to Vectors)

• BH 1.66.0-1 - provides a sizeable portion of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for R

• tidygraph 1.1 - A Tidy API for Graph Manipulation

Videos and Podcasts

• Tidy evaluation in 5 minutes

• NSSD NO.54: Soft Spot for Microsoft Hilary and Roger follow up on his talk at WEHI and the discussion on intelligence analysts. They also discuss Microsoft’s R-related tools, movie spoilers, and other miscellaneous topics.

• DataFramed Ep9: Data Science and Online Experiments at Etsy. Discover how data science and online experiments impact business and decision making at Etsy. Hugo Bowne-Anderson’s interview with @Emily Robinson.

• R-Podcast Episode 24: Yihui Xie Returns (rstudio::conf 2018) Eric reconnects with the first-ever guest of the R-Podcast, RStudio software engineer Yihui Xie. In their conversation you’ll hear about Yihui’s journey since joining RStudio, his vision of how blogdown and bookdown could lead to a streamlined publishing worflow, and much more.

R Internationally

• Itération de fonctions avec purrr - Tutorial on purrr in French

Tutorials

• Deep learning at rstudio::conf 2018

• Explain R environments like I’m five

• a use-case for shiny modules for downloadable plots

• ggplot2 features for visualizing the NHANES data

• [How to] Build an API wrapper package in 10 minutes.

• Multilevel Modeling in R with NHL Power Play Data

• On struggling with aes(): an intro to writing functions with ggplot outputs

• Introducing tidyLPA (an R package for carrying out Latent Profile Analysis)

• Basic Relational Database Functions

• This post tells the story of how we developed Liss, an AI for sentiment analysis in Luxembourguish trained on more than 50 000 movie reviews.

• Getting Started with Geocoding for NYC in R using the new NYC GeoSearch tool

• A tutorial on visualizing negative space in a meaningful way, using fish encounter histories

• A gentle introduction to tidy descriptive statistics, ANOVAs, and publication-style graphics in R

• Using Flexdashboards to Monitor Clinical Research

• Using the ‘breaks’ argument in ggplot to drop items from legends, with some background and a possible contribution to the ggplot2 documentation.

• Predicting job search by training a random forest on an unbalanced dataset

• tfestimators - Package: Embeddings for Categorical Variables

• Evaluating R code from potentially malicious sources

• The relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and electoral vote results - part 2 : get census data and plot the results

• Tidy evaluation in 5 mins

• Is 10,000 Cells Big?

• Evaluating R code from potentially malicious sources Part 4

• Support for hOCR and Tesseract 4 in R

• shinyalert: Easily create pretty popup messages (modals) in Shiny

• What does Microsoft do with R?

• Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning: Exploring Brexit with PLS and PCA

• Population growth and Doubling times with tidyverse

• Introducing tidyLPA (an R package for carrying out Latent Profile Analysis)

• chull()

• We Want to be Playing with a Moderate Number of Powerful Blocks

• neo4j gRaphs - Rmarkdown to start playing with Neo4j in R. Importing data, making queries and graph analytics in a R+Neo4j workflow.

• convex hulls part 2

• A fresh look for base graphics

• Importing 30GB of data in R with sparklyr

• Because it’s Friday: Hold the Door

• Books I liked in 2017

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Finalizers are now run with interrupts suspended.

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.

Jobs

• Head of BI at German publishing company

Call for Participation

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

• Rladies NYC Event on Feb 15, 2018 Creating Websites in R and A Data Science Update. Check out more on http://www.rladiesnyc.org

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

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Quotes of the Week

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— David Robinson (@drob) February 14, 2018

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— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) February 12, 2018