R Weekly 2017-40 Release Name, Equation, Map

02 Oct 2017

Highlight

• R release names - a ✍️ post explaining each release name

• Convert hand-drawn equations to LaTeX with the mathpix package

• mapsapi - ‘sf’-Compatible Interface to ‘Google Maps’ APIs

• August 2017 New Package Picks

Insights

• For the Love of Statistics: A Conversation with Hadley Wickham

• R release names - a ✍️ post explaining each release name

R in the Real World

• SODD — StackOverflow Driven-Development

• Marketing Multi-Channel Attribution model based on Sales Funnel with R

• CACE closed: EM opens up exclusion restriction (among other things)

• What is the appropriate population scaling of the Affordable Care Act Funding?

• Twitter with 280 character limit

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• huskydown - An R Markdown template using the bookdown package for preparing a PhD thesis at the University of Washington

• mapsapi - ‘sf’-Compatible Interface to ‘Google Maps’ APIs

• ciTools - An R Package for Quick Uncertainty Intervals

Package Releases

• DescriptiveStats.OBeu 1.2.1 - Εstimate and return the necessary parameters for descriptive statistics visualizations

• cartography 1.4.2 - Thematic Cartography

• RcppZiggurat 0.1.4 - Ziggurat Normal RNGs

• RcppAnnoy 0.0.10 - Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library

• proustr 0.2.0 - Natural Language Processing in French

• Rcpp 0.12.13 - Updated vignettes, and more

• August 2017 New Package Picks

R in Organizations

• Meet the new Microsoft R Server: Microsoft ML Server 9.2

Resources

• R-Ladies Crossword Puzzle Challenge

Tutorials

• Convert hand-drawn equations to LaTeX with the mathpix package

• Performance Benchmarking for Dummy Variable Creation

• Speeding Up Digital Arachnids

• Time Series Analysis in R Part 2: Time Series Transformations

• Introducing Microsoft Machine Learning Server 9.2 Release

• Custom Level Coding in vtreat

• Survival Analysis with R

• News Roundup from Microsoft Ignite

• Building A Book Recommender System – The Basics, kNN and Matrix Factorization

• Microsoft Cognitive Services Vision API in R

• rrricanes to Access Tropical Cyclone Data

• Oneway ANOVA Explanation and Example in R; Part 1

• Featurizing images: the shallow end of deep learning

• Streamgraphs: Economic trade flows with R

• Blockchain & distributed ML - my report from the data2day conference

• Oneway ANOVA Explanation and Example in R; Part 2

• R 3.4.2 is released

• Partial Pooling for Lower Variance Variable Encoding

• Multicollinearity in R

• bupaR: Business Process Analysis with R

• Because it’s Friday: Big Little Songs

• The Kelly Criterion — Does It Work?

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• glm() and glm.fit get the same singular.ok=TRUE argument that lm() has had forever.

• raw(0) & raw(0) now returns raw again; ditto for |.

• A workaround has been added for the change in location of time-zone files on macOS 10.13 High Sierra, so the default time zone is deduced correctly from the system setting when R is configured with --with-internal-tzcode (the default on macOS).

• Writing R Extensions documents macros MAYBE_REFERENCED, MAYBE_SHARED and MARK_NOT_MUTABLE that should be used by package C code instead NAMED or SET_NAMED.

• The object header layout has been changed to support merging the ALTREP branch. This requires re-installing packages that use compiled code.

Upcoming Events

• RStudio conf 2018 January 31 to February 3
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• R/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
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• useR! 2018 July 10, 2018
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