R Weekly 2017-52 Christmas, 🎄, Review

25 Dec 2017

Highlight

• 2017 - A 🐦❤️ year in review

• Where have you been? Getting my Github activity

• Teaching the tidyverse to beginners

• Brazil R Day

R in the Real World

• Blue Christmas: A data-driven search for the most depressing Christmas song 🎄

• How Jolly are Christmas Songs Actually? 🎄

• Data Wonderland: Christmas songs from the viewpoint of a data scientist 🎄

• chRistmas tRees 🎄

• All I want for Christmas is…-a text analysis 🎄

• ASA Police Data Challenge student visualization contest winners

• Metallica Concerts with the Tidyverse

• Wars Vs Star Trek Word Battle

• Stylistic variation in the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account and the stylistic typicality of the Pled Tweet

• Possum magic: mapping an Australian children’s book

• E is for Elephant (The ebayr Package)

• Surprising stories hide in seemingly mundane data

• Mining Game of Thrones Scripts with R

• mqtt Development Log : On DSLs, Rcpp Modules and Custom Formula Functions

• Conference Cost

• inegiR – an R package for Mexican official statistics

• Where have you been? Getting my Github activity

• Analysing comments to “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” - part 2

• Bilingual Towns

Insights

• Data Analysis and Engagement - Does Caring About the Analysis Matter?

• 2017 - A 🐦❤️ year in review

• Looking Back on 2017

• Thoughts on David Donoho’s “Fifty Years of Data Science”

• A tour of the data.table package by creator Matt Dowle

• 2018 R Consortium Silver member representatives for Board and ISC

• #14: Finding Binary .deb Files for CRAN Packages

• Open Science, skimrand Me

• On moving the box, not the whiskers

R in Organizations

• eRum 2018 to be held in Budapest, May 14-18

• Recap of the uRos2017 conference

• A Data Science Lab for R

• 9th MilanoR Meeting - Dataviz with R, Photos and presentations

 R in Academia

• Creating 2016 population weights created for the Cards Against Humanities’s Pulse of the Nation Survey. Weights are based on 2016 Census estimates for Age, Race, and Gender

• Teaching the tidyverse to beginners

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• swatches - Read, Inspect, and Manipulate Color Swatch Files

• tfestimators - Interface to ‘TensorFlow’ Estimators

• bcmaps - Map Layers and Spatial Utilities for British Columbia

• JuniperKernel - Kernel for ‘Jupyter’

• SpatialBall - Spatial NBA Visualization and Analysis

• jekyllthat - RMarkdown to Github Jekyll md

• Nov 2017: New Package Picks

Package Releases

• fitur 0.5.20 - Fit Univariate Distributions

• digest 0.6.13 - Hash function summaries for GNU R objects

• drat 0.1.4 - Drat R Archive Template

R Internationally

• Brazil R Day - National Meeting of R users is an event to congregate users and developers of R in an environment for exchange of experiences, learning and contacts.

Resources

• Material for STA 112FS: Data Science at Duke including an assignment with fun R packages

• Docker-based Geospatial toolkit for R, built on versioned Rocker images

• Reading and combining many tidy data files in R

• fulltext bookdown (work in progress, feedback welcome)

• exams, The open-source package exams for the R system for statistical computing provides a one-for-all approach to automatic exams generation.

Tutorials

• R⁶ Series — Random Sampling From Apache Drill Tables With R & sergeant

• Modifying an R function to iterate (using purrr) and use non-standard evaluation (using rlang)

• Simplify Your Map To Reduce Drawing Time

• Hypurrr-ameter Grid Search with purrr and future and corresponding R scripts and executable binder

• Testing for time trend

• Learn to Write Command Line Utilities in R

• Integrating ‘pkgdown’ with Your Personal Website

• Higher-order geometry differences and intersections

• How to build a shiny app for sports betting

• How Do Machines Learn?

• A Crazy Little Thing Called {purrr} - Part 5: code optimization

• More Pipes in R

• How to Greatly Speed Up Your Spark Queries

• Time Series Forecasting with Recurrent Neural Networks

• Let it Flow…Let it Flow….Let it Flow

• The Trouble with Bias, by Kate Crawford

• Make your own color palettes with paletti

• Puerto Rico’s governor wants recount of hurricane death toll

• My favourite R package for: frequency tables

• Skip errors in R loops by not writing loops

Gist & Cookbook

• A function to create artifical snow using R base graphics and the animation package

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• 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().

• The default version for save(), saveRDS(), serialize() and similar has been changed to 3. Objects saved with version 3 are not readable by eariier versions of R.

• tools::resaveRdaFiles() gains a version argument, for use when packages should remain compatible with earlier versions of R.

• write.dcf() gets optional argument useBytes.

• New function packageDate() which tries to get a valid “Date” object from a package DESCRIPTION file, thanks to suggestions.

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

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Quotes of the Week

I have to say, it's so incredible to tweet out a quick question and immediately have some of the most well known #rstats users and devs pop in with tons of great advice and helpful links. I love the R community on here 😊

— Ahmed Hasan (@microbialwalrus) 19 de desembre de 2017

I am always looking for reviewers for the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). If you're interested (especially if you are interested in #rstats and/or social science), please sign-up here: https://t.co/GSl78TqgZn

— Thomas Leeper (@thosjleeper) 18 de desembre de 2017

Interested in contributing to @datacarpentry #geospatial or #socialsci lessons - here's how you can contribute https://t.co/1Jufebznr4

— Data Carpentry (@datacarpentry) 19 de desembre de 2017

So, #rstats folks: I’m now contractually obligated to write “A Field Guide for Web Scraping & Accessing APIs w/R” for July ’18. What hard topics have you encountered you'd like me to cover or topics you're curious abt you'd like me to exposit?

— hrbrgrnch (@hrbrmstr) 22 de desembre de 2017