R Weekly 2017-43 History of R, Docker, Data Scientist

23 Oct 2017

Highlight

• An Updated History of R

• Why Use Docker with R? A DevOps Perspective

• One Year as a Data Scientist at Simple

Insights

• The 501st Reminder About Reproducible Examples

• A Few Joyful Moments of A Software Developer

• An Updated History of R

• Employer refuses to install R / RStudio

• Why Use Docker with R? A DevOps Perspective

R in the Real World

• Continuous deployment of a Twitterbot with R & Azure Functions

• Exploring Spotify Playlists - Analyse how different or how similar is the music that people around the world listen to.

• Bioinformatics plots

• New Zealand fatal traffic crashes

• Is it faster to take a bike or taxi in NYC?

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• preText - An R package to assess the effects of text preprocessing decisions.

• seurat - R toolkit for single cell genomics

• pecan - The Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer (PEcAn) is an integrated ecological bioinformatics toolbox.

Package Releases

• colourpicker 1.0 - You can now select semi-transparent colours in R

• Bio7 2.6 - Integrated development environment for ecological modelling

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD 47 - This is Episode 47

R in Organizations

• One Year as a Data Scientist at Simple

Tutorials

• Creating interactive SVG tables in R

• Schedule R Code to Be Executed Periodically

• Sales Analytics: How to Use Machine Learning to Predict and Optimize Product Backorders

• Data acquisition in R (1/4)

• Data from Public Bicycle Hire Systems

• Saving Snow Leopards with Artificial Intelligence

• splitting a field by annealing

• Stop Using word2vec

• Database Queries With R

• 🙈 mousey methods

• Goodreads 👍📚 Part 2: rvesting descriptions

• County-Level Choropleth in Plotly and R

• First steps with MRF smooths

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• ‘Sys.timezone(location)’ is slightly less platform dependent, notably for ‘location = FALSE’.

• Support for a system Java on macOS has been removed - install a fairly recent Oracle Java (see ‘R Installation and Administration’ §C.3.2).

• The maximum number of DLLs that can be loaded into R e.g. via ‘dyn.load()’ has been increased up to 614 when the OS limit on the number of open files allows.

• ‘R CMD javareconf’ has been updated to recognize the use of a Java 9 SDK on macOS.

Upcoming Events

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

• R/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
  Applied Finance with R. More info

• 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.

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Quotes of the Week

ggplot is not the only place we can use viridis color 😉 #rstats pic.twitter.com/IGDSqKH6ts

— Hao Zhu (@haozhu233) October 14, 2017