R Weekly 2017-42 RStudio 1.1, Growth of R

16 Oct 2017

Highlight

• RStudio 1.1

• A tidy text analysis of Rick and Morty

• The impressive growth of R

Insights

• How are people doing bayesian statistics in 2017?

• The impressive growth of R

• .rprofile: David Smith

• R : Past and Future History

R in the Real World

• Data Visualization Course for First-Year Students

• Quick geofacet plots

• A tidy text analysis of Rick and Morty

• GitHub Streak: Round Four

• Sign of the Times

• R’s remarkable growth

• Rick and Morty and Tidy Data Principles Motivation

• Governance, Engagement, and Resistance in the Open Science Movement: A Comparative Study

• Celebrating 20 years of CRAN

• The Bold & Beautiful Character Similarities using Word Embeddings

• It Costs Money to Get It Right

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• coinmarketcapr - R package to get Cryptocurrencies Market Cap Prices from Coin Market Cap

• linl - Linl Is Not Letter – LaTeX Letter Template

Package Releases

• XKCDdata: Get XKCD Comic Data

• huxtable 1.0 - Happy User Xtable

• RcppArmadillo 0.8.100.1.0 - an interface from R to and from Armadillo

• dplyrXdf 1.0 - dplyr backend for Revolution Analytics xdf files

• RStudio 1.1

• tibbletime 0.0.2 - Time-Aware Tibbles, New Functions, Weather Analysis

• ciTools 0.2.1 - An R Package for Quick Uncertainty Intervals

R Internationally

• forcats, forcats, vous avez dit forcats ?

Resources

• R Manuals as bookdown

Tutorials

• A gentle introduction to data visualisation using R

• Data Science 101: Sentiment Analysis in R Tutorial

• Spatial networks – case study St James centre, Edinburgh (1/3)

• Continuous Learning from Data: No Multiplicities from Computing and Using Bayesian Posterior Probabilities as Often as Desired

• Principal Component Analysis – Unsupervised Learning

• Climate Change and Population Modeling in R

• Changes to Internet Connectivity in R on Windows

• Enabling Concerned Visitors & Ethical Security Researchers with security.txt Web Security Policies (plus analyze them at-scale with R)

• Searching Stack Overflow

• Emoji Stats of Github Issues?

• Thanks, Jean-Olivier Irisson, for Mentioning Cross-posting!

• What’s next in googleway: drag & drop geoJSON

• Comparing smooths in factor-smooth interactions I

• Feels like a dry winter – but what does the data say?

• More support for Bayesian analysis in the sj!-packages #rstats #rstan #brms

• Introduction to Portfolio Returns

• Tutorial: Azure Data Lake analytics with R

• Halifax, NS, Stan talk and course Thu 19 Oct

• Simplifying ggplot2 code by doing nothing

• XML parsing made easy: is that podcast getting longer?

• A cRyptic crossword with an R twist

Gist & Cookbook

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• CRAN Policy Change new rev3747

• 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.

• Following Unicode Corrigendum 9, the UTF-8 representations of U+FFFE and U+FFFF are now regarded as valid by utf8ToInt().

• intToUtf8(multiple = FALSE) gains an argument to allow surrogate pairs to be interpreted.

• New function isFALSE() defined analogously to isTRUE().

• raw(0) & raw(0) and fix calling of methods on S4 generics that dispatch on ... when the call contains ....

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

At what was the first face-to-face meeting of R Core, Ross said he and Robert thought that a couple of hundred people at most would use it. https://t.co/GmsoFcbezj

— Douglas Bates (@BatesDmbates) October 10, 2017

The new 'injuries' package + Emergency Room visit dataset is just endlessly fascinating. I'm instantly obsessed. #Rstats pic.twitter.com/XKCZUAm7ay

— John Ver-y Scare-ray (@johnlray) October 12, 2017

How did I not know about the skimr package? It looks like an updated/improved version of psych::describe #rstats https://t.co/SAJsFa72fT pic.twitter.com/xTebZNJkJ3

— Mike Kearney📊 (@kearneymw) October 11, 2017