R Weekly 2018-1 New Year, Android, R4DS

01 Jan 2018

Highlight

• hrbrmstr’s Year In Review

• R4DS: the next iteration

• A curated list of Awesome Shiny Apps for Statistics

• Using R on Android

Insights

• Using the Tidyverse to analyze the Metallica concerts I have attended.

• Help Needed: Use Sentence Styles in knitr’s Documentation

• Six Reasons To Learn R For Business

• hrbrmstr’s Year In Review

• R4DS: the next iteration

R in the Real World

• 2017. Quantified. In. R.

• MPA 635: Data visualization - Students use R and Illustrator to take a huge dataset, explore it, tinker with it, and tell a nuanced story about it using at least three graphs.

• Tidying and mapping Toronto open data

• Bayes’ Puzzle Powers

• Using R on Android

• People Paid A Lot to Park Downtown This Year

• Sentiment Analysis of Colorado Flood Tweets in R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• brmstools - helper functions for (visualizing) brms models

• strava - Create artistic visualisations with your exercise data

• rhymer - Find rhyming and other related words using the Datamuse API.

Resources

• A curated list of Awesome Shiny Apps for Statistics

• Rstudio addin to tweet from Rstudio

R Internationally

• R de jeu #2 : Happy new yeaR

• Visualizando datos de actividades deportivas con R y strava

Videos and Podcasts

• Deeplearning tutorial for beginners in R

Tutorials

• Combined outlier detection with dplyr and ruler

• library(methods): Human Time vs Computer Time

• The Fix for Disqus and Images Figuring Out Images and Disqus With Blogdown

• A gentle INLA tutorial

• saveRDS() vs write_csv() - a newbie introduction

• Goodbye Joyplots

• Twitter Data in R Using rtweet: Analyze and Download Twitter Data

• Music Visualizations using MIDI, R, and SVG

• Plotting Deep Learning Model Performance Trajectories

• Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters

• Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

• random wake

• A Crazy Little Thing Called {purrr} - Part 6 : doing statistics

• Working with Pdfs - Scraping the Pass Budget

• cyclic riddle [not in NYC!]

• Downtime Reading

• Learn to Write Command Line Utilities in R - part 6

• Using R on Android

• Analyzing #goofyreligion with #rstats and rtweet (Twitter API R package)

• A data viz that asks questions: Friends time series ggplots

Gist & Cookbook

• Code to make an holidays pastryRchy card for R-Ladies

• Chernoff periodic table

• A brief demonstration on how to visualise confidence intervals in R

• Year in Review with R Rmd Template

• A Hogwarts style Twitter account sorter

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• nls(`NO [mol/l]` ~ f(t)) and nls(y ~ a) now work.

• configure will use pkg-config to find the flags to link to jpeg if available (as it should be for jpeg-9c and libjpeg-turbo). (This amends the code added in R 3.3.0 as module name in jpeg-9c is not what that tested for.)

• Legacy support of make macros such as CXX1X is formally deprecated: use the CXX11 forms instead.

• ar.yw(x) and hence by default ar(x) now work when x has NAs, mostly thanks to a patch by Pavel Krivitsky in PR#17366. The ar.yw.default()’s AIC computations have become more efficient by using determinant().

Upcoming Events

• RStudio conf 2018 January 31 to February 3
  rstudio::conf is about all things R and RStudio!

• satRday Cape Town 2018 March 17
  satRday Cape Town

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

• satRday Cape Town 2018 - Call for papers

• eRum 2018 May 14-16, Budapest, Hungary - Call for papers

• LatinR - Conferencia Latinoamericana sobre Uso de R en Investigación + Desarrollo, 3 al 7 de septiembre de 2018, Buenoes Aires, Argentina

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Just learned that R for data science is being translated in to Chinese (simplified & complex), French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Serbian next year! #rstats

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) December 20, 2017

Two R conferences in South America next year are endorsed by the R Foundation: R Day in Curitiba, Brazil on 2018-05-22; and LatinR in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 2018-09-03 to 2018-09-07. See below for details.https://t.co/hQu7wOG9idhttps://t.co/NYHYe1EJEt

— The R Foundation (@_R_Foundation) December 22, 2017

The latest version of our #R4DS online learning community is ready for you to sign up!

Whether you're just learning #rstats, or have been using it for decades, we're a community that's helping others learn R through the R for Data Science text.https://t.co/bHwf7cSPeV

— Jesse Maegan (@kierisi) 22 de desembre de 2017

#rstats folk: TONS to learn from Bjarne in this 👍 video if you teach, tutor or do #rstats education at all https://t.co/fakOR9bRoM

— b❆B Rudis (@hrbrmstr) December 30, 2017

New #rstats cheatsheet today: Dates and Times with #lubridate! Available at https://t.co/OZVUTm5lDl @rstudio pic.twitter.com/33rmsDLRED

— Garrett Grolemund (@StatGarrett) December 20, 2017

Nowadays when I remember someone tweeted something & need that something, I look for the tweet using #rstats @rtweet_pkg get_timeline and @rstudio View(). 🔎

— Maëlle Salmon 🐟 (@ma_salmon) December 29, 2017

All my runs (2011-2017) plotted from @Strava data #rstats pic.twitter.com/ZBG3C9QI7Y

— Marcus Volz (@mgvolz) December 23, 2017