R Weekly 2017-30

24 Jul 2017

Highlight

• What’s your favorite relatively obscure R package that makes doing an annoying, but common task really easy?

• Four Ways to Schedule R scripts on Google Cloud Platform

• Geocomputation with R

R in the Real World

• IEEE Spectrum 2017 Top Programming Languages

• Young people neither in employment nor in education and training in Europe, 2000-2016

• Analysing useR!2017 schedule data

• North Dakota Horizontal Oil Well Production

• Global convergence in male life expectancy at birth

Insights

• Package request for publication ready tables

• What’s your favorite relatively obscure R package that makes doing an annoying, but common task really easy?

R Internationally

• (In French) De retour de useR!2017

• (In French) Dockeriser une application Shiny

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD 43 - Analogy Corner - About teaching R in the era of the tidyverse, joyplots, follow up on explainable AI, writing versus data analysis, and Google Music playlists.

• Introduction to R Workshop: 12 Videos and Materials for a Day Long Workshop

R in Organizations

• The Value of #Welcome

• Stan Weekly Roundup, 21 July 2017

Resources

• Geocomputation with R

• A collection of R, data science and general science podcasts

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• languagelayeR - Access the languagelayer API with R

• polMonitor - Shiny app for monitoring police violence

• sergeant - The Apache Drill R interface package

• seplyr - Standard Evaluation Interfaces for Common Dplyr Verbs

• constants - Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty

Package Releases

• Rcpp 0.12.12 - Rounding some corners

• JAGS 4.3.0 - Just Another Gibbs Sampler

• RcppAPT 0.0.4 - interface from R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get

Tutorials

• R, Docker, Circle, and Environments

• let there be progress - The ‘wrapr’ package for use with dplyr programming

• Animated Plots As Part Of Exploratory Data Analysis

• Fast and reproducible reports with bookdown

• Jumping dogs and density plots

• Four Ways to Schedule R scripts on Google Cloud Platform

• How do you feel about Last Week Tonight?

• useR!2017: Analysing Learning Patterns with R

• Preparing for the Plumber v0.4.0 Release

• dplyr 0.7 Made Simpler

• Ligature fonts for R

• Le Monde puzzle [#1016]

• How to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of non-English documents in R using Tesseract?

• Structural Changes in Global Warming

• Scraping & Swarming: A Visual Exploration of Facebook Data in R

• Revisiting the useR!2017 conference: Recordings now available

• Weather plots for any US location

• Slides from my intro to Bayesian regression talk

• Neural Networks from Scratch, in R

• Plants

• Animating a spinner using ggplot2 and ImageMagick

• Securely store API keys in R scripts with the “secret” package

• Parameter tuning with mlrHyperopt

• languagelayeR 1.1.0 is now on CRAN

• Data Analysis for Life Sciences

• Network analysis of Game of Thrones

• User2017 - padr package example

• Introduction to Rolling Volatility

• Neville’s Method of Polynomial Interpolation

• seplyr update

• Resizing spatial data in R

• My unfunded HHMI teaching professors proposal

• Some Ideas for your Internal R Package

• Quirks about running Rcpp on Windows through RStudio

• Quickly Check your id Variables

• Using Machine Learning to Predict Value of Homes On Airbnb

• Visualizing Geographic Data in R

• What analysis program do conservation scientists use?

• Surprising result when exploring Rcpp gallery

• Chart golf: the “demographic tsunami”

• Premier League Predictions

• How to make maps with Census data in R

• Visualizing Portfolio Volatility

• How to make interactive maps with Census and local data in R

• Inter-country inequality and the World Development Indicators 11:30

• Quickly Check your ID Variables

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• dist(x, method="canberra") now uses the correct definition; the result may only differ when x contains values of differing signs, i.e., e.g., not for 0-1 data.

• length()<- on a pairlist succeeds. (<URL: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-July/074680.html>)

• Language objects such as quote(("\n")) or R functions are correctly printed again, where R 3.4.1 accidentally duplicated the backslashes.

• menu(choices) with more than 10 choices which easily fit into one getOption("width")-line no longer erronously repeats choices. (PR#17312)

• c() and unlist() are now more efficient in constructing the names(.) of their return value, thanks to a proposal by Suharto Anggono. (PR#17284)

• readLines() no longer segfaults on very large files with embedded '\0' (aka nul). (PR#17311)

• ns() (package splines) now also works for a single observation. interpSpline() gives a more friendly error message when the number of points is less than four.

• R CMD check checks for and R CMD build corrects CRLF line endings in shell scripts configure and cleanup (even on Windows).

• poly(<matrix>, 3) now works, thanks to prompting by Marc Schwartz.

Upcoming Events

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

• 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

5 "verbs" in #R solve 90% of data manipulation challenges according to @hadleywickham at #ISI2017 pic.twitter.com/vmLPt2UVGD

— Eric Vance (@ervance) July 20, 2017