R Weekly 2017-41 Raspberry Pi, Markdown

09 Oct 2017

Highlight

• Convince me to start using R Markdown

• Achoo - Uses a Raspberry Pi to predict if my son will need his inhaler on any given day using weather, pollen, and air quality data

• An Introduction to R with bookdown

Insights

• Convince me to start using R Markdown

• Switching from Base R to tidyverse

R in the Real World

• A Dive Into Some Global Flooding Data

• 2017 New Zealand Election

• A Tidy Text Analysis of Rick and Morty

• Achoo - Uses a Raspberry Pi to predict if my son will need his inhaler on any given day using weather, pollen, and air quality data

• Small multiples for the German elections 2017

• Whom does India`s Prime Minister Follow on Twitter? A Text Mining Exercise.

• New Zealand 2017 election results

• Retrieve & process TV News chyrons with newsflash

• The music of Les Mills Body Pump, with Spotify data

• Mapping ecosystems of software development

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• gghighlight - Highlight ggplot’s Lines and Points with Predicates

• rCAEDDATA - Data from the California Department of Education in R

• tfruns - Tools for TensorFlow Training Runs

• xgboostExplainer - An R package that makes xgboost models fully interpretable

• remedy - Addins to facilitate writing in markdown with RStudio.

Package Releases

• tidystringdist 0.1.0 - String Distance Calculation with Tidy Data Principles

• confinterpret 1.0 - Descriptive interpretations from confidence intervals with confinterpret.

• RProtoBuf 0.4.11 - R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers

• nzelect 0.4.0 - results from 2002 to 2014 and polls up to September 2017

R Internationally

• Text mining et topic modeling avec R

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD 46 - Uncanny Valley of Stickerness - Hilary and Roger continue their late night contemplations about stickers, collecting new data for training machine learning algorithms, and paying for open (and closed) source software.

R in Organizations

• An introduction post for 0.1.0 of googleLanguageR, that lets you analyse language through the Google Cloud Machine Learning APIs

• R-Ladies global tour

• Help us build capacity of open software users and developers with Hacktoberfest

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

Resources

• An Introduction to R with bookdown

Tutorials

• getSymbols and Alpha Vantage

• WordR - A New R Package for Rendering Documents in MS Word Format

• Identify & Analyze Web Site Tech Stacks With rappalyzer

• Creating an expository graph for a talk

• ggplot2 SEM models with tidygraph and ggraph

• The Guardian Experience: heavy or light topics?

• A Gentle Introduction on Market Basket Analysis — Association Rules

• Oh How I Have Failed Thee, Jupyter Notebooks…

• Comparing assault death rates in the US to other advanced democracies

• Querying Zenodo.org repository with R

• EPL Week 7

• Create Powerpoint presentations from R with the OfficeR package

• Bayesian vs. Frequentist Statements About Treatment Efficacy

• Time Series Analysis in R Part 3: Getting Data from Quandl

• Introducing the Deep Learning Virtual Machine on Azure

• WordR - A New R Package for Rendering Documents in MS Word Format

• In case you missed it: September 2017 roundup

• ARIMA models and Intervention Analysis

• A cRossword about R

• Because it’s Friday: Death Risk

• Stan Biweekly Roundup, 6 October 2017

• Using chat emotes as signals for content themes

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

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

• isTRUE() is more tolerant and now true in

• x <- rlnorm(99) isTRUE(median(x) == quantile(x)[“50%”])

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

• Fix calling of methods on S4 generics that dispatch on ... when the call contains ....

• intToUtf8() converts integers corresponding to surrogate code points to NA rather than invalid UTF-8.

• aspell() gains a filter for Markdown (.md and .Rmd) files.

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.

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Quotes of the Week

Today in office hours:

Student 1: "This midterm is way more fun than my other midterms"
Student 2: "My sociology teacher was so impressed I used #rstats for my project, it's so nice to use something you learn in one class in another"
Mine: 😊😊😊

— Mine CetinkayaRundel (@minebocek) October 2, 2017