R Weekly 2017-50 datapasta, Reproducible, Names

11 Dec 2017

Highlight

• datapasta - R Tools for Data Copy-Pasta

• A guide to reproducible code, British Ecological Society

• .rprofile: Jenny Bryan

• Naming things is hard

• Names of b…..s badder than Taylor Swift, a class in women’s studies?

Insights

• Components of a successful R workshop

• Writing Excel formatted csv using readr::write_excel_csv2

• .rprofile: Jenny Bryan

• Introduction to R Programming

R in the Real World

• trackeR - Infrastructure for Running and Cycling Data from GPS-Enabled Tracking Devices in R

• Prospective Detection of Outbreaks

• Visualising text data w/ ggplot2

• The Cost of True Love (a.k.a. The Tidy — and expensive! — Twelve Days of Christmas)

• What do you get on the 13th day of Christmas?

• Naming things is hard

• Names of b…..s badder than Taylor Swift, a class in women’s studies?

• Some quirks with R and SQL Server

• SNAP-FU - Making a Snapchat-like face mask by implementing SSD Deep Learning object detection with Keras, reticulate, magick and animation

• Is Left-Center-right a loaded game?

Videos and Podcasts

• Webinar: New Features of the RStudio IDE

Resources

• A guide to reproducible code, British Ecological Society

• Course materials for BIOST561, Computational Skills for Biostatistics

• Introduction to R Programming

• Technical Foundations of Informatics: Section A, Autumn 2017

• Less (Exciting) is More. Slides from Boston Bioconductor Shiny Talk

R in Organizations

• Bake R cookies with this cookie cutter

 R in Academia

• Exploratory Data Analysis of Ancient Texts with rperseus

• Modeling the effects of interspecies competition on the growth of trees

• Discussion of R package citation tools

• Creating an EM:IP Cover Graphic Using ggplot2

• archivist: An R Package for Managing, Recording and Restoring Data Analysis Results

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• ruler - Rule Your Data with Tidy Data Validation Reports

• datapasta - R Tools for Data Copy-Pasta

• Rokemon - Pokemon themed R package

• foghorn - 📢 🚢 R package to summarize CRAN Check Results in the Terminal

• patchwork - The Composer of ggplots

• geniusr - interface to the Genius API (songs lyrics)

• PlackettLuce - Estimate the worth of items based on rankings data. Movies, puddings & more!

• togglr - an R and Rstudio wrapper for toggl API (time tracking)

• jmv - one R package (not just) for the social sciences

• ipumsr - Integrating IPUMS Data with R

• walmartAPI, Walmart Open API wrapper

Package Releases

• R 3.4.3 is released

• magick 1.6 - clipping, geometries, fonts, fuzz, and a bit of history

• tidyxl 1.0.0 - Read untidy Excel files in R

• RcppArmadillo 0.8.300.1.0 - an interface from R to and from Armadillo

• Plotly December Update

Tutorials

• A Crazy Little Thing Called {purrr} - Part 3 : Setting NA

• Usage of ruler package

• H2O AutoML tutorial

• Deprecate functions with roxygen2

• Please inspect your dplyr+database code

• A quick look at Bechdel test data (& an awtools update)

• AI School: Microsoft R and SQL Server ML Services

• How to Show R Inline Code Blocks in R Markdown

• Innovating Faster on Personalization Algorithms at Netflix Using Interleaving

• On the biases in data

• How to Avoid the dplyr Dependency Driven Result Corruption

• In case you missed it: November 2017 roundup

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• The version of LAPACK included in the sources has been updated to 3.8.0 (for the routines used by R a very minor bug-fix change).

• Sys.timezone() is now used to find the system timezone to pass to the code used when R is configured with --with-internal-tzcode.

• power.prop.test() now warns when it cannot solve the problem, typically because of impossible constraints. (PR#17345)

• Sys.timezone(location = FALSE) is defunct, and is ignored (with a warning).

Upcoming Events

• RStudio conf 2018 January 31 to February 3
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• satRday Cape Town 2018 March 17
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• satRday Cape Town 2018 - Call for papers

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Quotes of the Week

You know what I like about the #rstats community? The inter-discliplinary interaction. R has lead me to people working in #PoliSci #psychology #finance #measure #stats #computationalbiology #Transportation

— Elea McDonnell Feit (@eleafeit) 7 de desembre de 2017

- Papa, what are you doing?
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How I ended up generating #rstats snow for my 3yo daughter Sophia#ggplot2 #dataviz pic.twitter.com/29sk1HpROJ

— Ilya Kashnitsky (@ikashnitsky) 4 de desembre de 2017