R Weekly 2018-38

17 Sep 2018

Highlight

• The R Infrastructure - How we build stuff by Jeroen Ooms

Insights

• The First Notebook War

• Divergent and Convergent Phases of Data Analysis

• The R Infrastructure - How we build stuff by Jeroen Ooms

R in Organizations

• A recap of CDSB 2018 - The start of a community of R/Bioconductor developers in Latin America and Mexico with a focus in bioinformatics

• Deadline extended for rstudio::conf(2019) abstract submissions

• What you missed at satRday @Amsterdam

R in the Real World

• All the Badges One Can Earn: Parsing Badges of CRAN Packages READMEs

• The Evolution of Data Literacy at the U.S. Department of Energy + Finding Power Grid Cyber Attacks in a Data Haystack

• Identifying the author behind New York Time’s op-ed from inside the Trump White House

• How many deaths were caused by the hurricane in Puerto Rico?

• Who wrote that anonymous NYT op-ed? Text similarity analyses with R

• sabre: Or How to Compare Two Maps?

Resources

• Code for Workshop: Introduction to Machine Learning with R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• Interface to ‘sigma.js’ graph visualization library - Including animations, plugins and shiny proxies. Also allows for dynamic visualisations and triggers (buttons) in static documents

• gganatogram - Create anatograms using ggplot2

Package Releases

• digest 0.6.17 - creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects

• wrapr 1.6.2 - Wrap R Tools for Debugging and Parametric Programming

• AsioHeaders 1.12.1-1 - cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming

Videos and Podcasts

• Video: R and Python in in Azure HDInsight

R Internationally

• Utiliser des pipes pour enchaîner des instructions

Tutorials

• Using R in a free hosted environment with IBM Watson Studio

• Going from a human readable Excel file to a machine-readable csv with {tidyxl}

• R Tip: Give data.table a Try

• Network visualization of football transfers using the ‘visNetwork’ package

• The year of the GNU+Linux desktop is upon us: using user ratings of Steam Play compatibility to play around with regex and the tidyverse

• Driving Drill Dynamically with Docker and Updating Storage Configurations On-the-fly with sergeant

• Because it’s Friday: Stars in Motion

• A stricter %in%

• Naïve Numerical Sums in R

• A Quick Appreciation of the R transform Function

• GDP Data via API

• What have these birds been studied for? Querying science outputs with R

• Binary, beta, beta-binomial

• Going from a human readable Excel file to a machine-readable csv with {tidyxl}

• Practical Data Science with R2

• Getting started with deep learning in R

• The Evolution of Data Literacy at the U.S. Department of Energy + Finding Power Grid Cyber Attacks in a Data Haystack

• If not Notebooks, then what? Look to Literate Programming

• R Gene Regulatory Interaction Formulator For Inquiring Networks

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Buffering is disabled for file() connections to irregular files (like sockets), as well as fifo() and pipe() connections. Fixes PR#17470, reported by Chris Culnane.

• Analogously, the tools-internal function called from R CMD check gets a warnOption = 1 argument and uses the larger of that and getOption("warn"), also allowing to be run with increased warning level.

• getOption() is more efficient notably for the rare case when called with two arguments, from several contributors in PR#17394.

• tools’ vignetteDepends() has been deprecated (it called a function deprecated since Feb 2016), partly replaced by newly exported vignetteInfo().

• Experimentally, setting environment variable _R_CHECK_LENGTH_1_LOGIC2_ will lead to warnings (or errors if the variable is set to a true value) when && or || encounter and use arguments of length more than one.

• Added "lines" and "chars" coordinate systems to grconvertX() and grconvertY().

• S3method() directives in NAMESPACE can now also be used to perform delayed S3 method registration.

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

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Quotes of the Week

A massive thanks to everyone to donated to support the Ihaka lecture series: https://t.co/nkyr8rSsrP — in total we raised just over $63,000!! I am so proud to part of such a wonderful community #rstats

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) September 14, 2018