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R Weekly 2017 Issue 16
Highlight
Resources
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remake-tutorial - A hands-on tutorial for remake, Make-like declarative workflows in R
Insights
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R is for Archaeology: A report on the 2017 Society of American Archaeology meeting
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R benchmark for High-Performance Analytics and Computing (II): GPU Packages
R in the Real World
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Sow the seeds, know the seeds - From Github API search endpoint you can get up to 1,000 results corresponding to a query which in the case of set.seed occurrences in R code.
Videos and Podcasts
R Internationally
R in Academia
Tutorials
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ReinforcementLearning: A package for replicating human behavior in R
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Test driving Python integration in R, using the ‘reticulate’ package
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Transaction Costs are Not an Afterthought; Transaction Costs in quantstrat
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Prepare real-world data for analysis with the vtreat package
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Web Scraping and Applied Clustering Global Happiness and Social Progress Index
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Fuzzy string Matching using fuzzywuzzyR and the reticulate package in R
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Impact of omitted variables on estimating causal effects - simulations
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Feature Selection using Voice Gender Data and the #caret package
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Choosing R packages for mixed effects modelling based on the car you drive
New Packages
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assertr - Data validation with the assertr package
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fastqcR - An R Package Facilitating Quality Controls of Sequencing Data for Large Numbers of Samples
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ggparliament - Simple parliament plots using ggplot2
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thankr - Find out who maintains the R packages you use and say ‘thank you’
Package Releases
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checkpoint 0.4.0 - Package Time Machine
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RSiteCatalyst 1.4.12 - R Client for Adobe Analytics API V1.4
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RcppArmadillo 0.7.800.2.0 - Provides an interface from R to and from Armadillo by utilising the Rcpp R/C++ interface library.
Call for Participation
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core:
readRDS(url(....))
now works.
Upcoming Events
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R/Finance 2017 May 19 and 20, 2017
From the inaugural conference in 2009, the annual R/Finance conference in Chicago has become the primary meeting for academics and practioners interested in using R in Finance. -
CSAMA 2017 June 11 - 16, 2017
Statistical Data Analysis for Genome-Scale Biology teaches statistical and computational analysis of multi-omics studies in biology and biomedicine. Practical hands-on exercises are based on the R / Bioconductor environment. -
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
We are pleased to announce that the #rstats conference useR! 2018 will take place in Brisbane, Australia on 10-13 July 2018. Save the date.
— The R Foundation (@_R_Foundation) April 11, 2017
#rstats at Google means ... pic.twitter.com/1FCtlCOLwU
— Matt Dowle (@MattDowle) April 12, 2017
— Drew Conway (@drewconway) April 12, 2017