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R Weekly 2017-24 Analyzing, Growing, Building
Highlight
Insights
R in the Real World
Videos and Podcasts
R in Organizations
New Packages
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proustr — access the work of Marcel Proust, ready for text analysis.
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plotdap - visualize ‘tabledap’ and ‘griddap’ objects obtained via the rerddap package.
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cld3 - Google’s Compact Language Detector 3
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electionsBR - An R to download and clean Brazilian electoral data.
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covfefe - Covfefy Any Word, Sentence or Speech
Package Releases
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here - constructs paths to your project’s files.
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anytime 0.3.0 - Convert Any Input to Parsed Date or Datetime
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quantmod 0.4-9 - Quantitative Financial Modelling & Trading Framework for R
R Internationally
Gist & Cookbook
- spark things - put Tufte-like sparkbars in R markdown documents
Tutorials
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Housing supply, population, and house prices: Tableau Dashboard
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Web data acquisition: from database to dataframe for data analysis and visualization (Part 4)
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Run massive parallel R jobs cheaply with updated doAzureParallel package
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Data Science for Business - Time Series Forecasting Part 2: Forecasting with timekit
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Consider Netlify instead of GitHub Pages for Your Static Websites
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core:
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Reading from connections in text mode is buffered, significantly improving the performance of
readLines()
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Extending S4 classes with slots corresponding to special attributes like
dim
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Upcoming Events
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angletR 2017 June 28 - 30, 2017
angletR aims to provide a national forum to exchange and share ideas on the use of R in different subjects such as visualisation, applied statistics, biostatistics and bioinformatics, Bayesian statistics, data analysis, Big Data, modelling, machine learning, high performance computing, etc. -
useR! 2017 July 4, 2017
The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.
More past events at R conferences & meetups.
Quotes of the Week
Fame at last: https://t.co/x4wIePKR6b -- it's always nice to get a bit of recognition! Coded in #rstats back in 2005, and it still runs.
— David Firth (@firthcity) June 7, 2017
When someone tells me they can't do something with #rstats ggplot2 I tell them to have a look at https://t.co/Y0QKOs9Dzx
— Maëlle Salmon (@ma_salmon) June 9, 2017