R Weekly 2017-26 Reddit Hug, Paradox

26 Jun 2017

Highlight

• Tabs, spaces and your salary - how is it really?

• Visualizing a Reddit Hug Of Death With R: How To Reddit-Proof Your Website For Pocket Change

• useRs Participation in the R Community

Insights

• Tabs, spaces and your salary - how is it really?

• Two years as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow

R in the Real World

• Housing affordability trends

• Baby Names in the UK and USA

• State-space modelling of the Australian 2007 federal election

• Logarithmic Scale Explained with U.S. Trade Balance

• Beware the Argument: The Flint Water Crisis and Quantiles

• Visualizing a Reddit Hug Of Death With R: How To Reddit-Proof Your Website For Pocket Change

• R⁶ — Disproving Approval

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD Episode 41 - Good to Two Decimal Places

R in Organizations

• useRs Participation in the R Community

• The R community is one of R’s best features

• Some R User Group News

• All OSS used in Plotly Cloud and Plotly On-Premise

• Hey! You there! You are welcome here

• Tackling the Research Compendium at runconf17

Resources

• Machine Learning Problem Bible

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• charlatan - All the fake data that’s fit to print

• rcjit - Experimental jit compiler for R built on NIMBLE

• May New Package Picks

Package Releases

• tmap 1.10 - thematic maps in R

• tidytext 0.1.3 - Text Mining using ‘dplyr’, ‘ggplot2’, and Other Tidy Tools

• RcppCCTZ 0.2.3 (and 0.2.2) - Rcpp bindings for CCTZ

• nanotime 0.2.0 - Nanosecond Resolution Time for R

R Internationally

• (Spanish) Visualizing flight paths across the globe with ggplot2

Tutorials

• Replicating the Apache Drill ‘Yelp’ Academic Dataset Analysis with sergeant

• Tips and tricks for working with images and figures in R Markdown documents

• Quantifying the magnitude of a population decline with Bayesian time-series modelling

• Business Science EARL SF 2017 Presentation: tidyquant, timekit, and more!

• Analytics Administration for R

• Partial least squares in R

• Deep Learning for Brand Logo Detection

• wrapr Implementation Update

• Second step with non-linear regression: adding predictors

• Using sparklyr with Microsoft R Server

• Visualising Twitter coverage of recent bioinformatics conferences

• An Out of Sample Update on DDN’s Volatility Momentum Trading Strategy and Beta Convexity

• R leads, Python gains in 2017 Burtch Works Survey

• More on housing affordability

• Smoothing a time-series with a Bayesian model

• Track changes in data with the lumberjack %»%

• Plotting partial pooling in mixed-effects models

• Counterintuitive problem: Everyone in a room keeps giving dollars to random others. You’ll never guess what happens next.

• Updated Data Science Virtual Machine for Windows: GPU-enabled with Docker support

• non-Bayesian decision riddle

• Spatial indexes coming to sf

• Machine Learning for Developers – How to Build Intelligent Apps & Services

• Facial Recognition in R

• Interactive R visuals in Power BI

• Set Theory Arbitrary Union and Intersection Operations with R

• Confidence Intervals without Your Collaborator’s Tears

• Using tidycensus and leaflet to map Census data

• datatables with d3 axis in header

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• print.noquote(x) now always returns its argument x (invisibly).

• Fix for legend() when fill has multiple values, first of which is NA (all colours then defaulted to par(fg)). (PR#17288)

• The documentation for installed.packages(noCache = TRUE) incorrectly claimed it would refresh the cache.

• installed.packages() did not remove the cached value for a library tree that had been emptied (but would not use the old value, just waste time checking it).

• available.packages() has two new arguments which control if the values from the per-session repository cache are used (default true, as before) and if so how old cached values can be to be used (default one hour).

• These arguments can be passed from install.packages(), update.packages() and functions calling that: to enable this available.packages(), packageStatus() and download.file() gain a ... argument.

• packageStatus()’s upgrade() method no longer ignores its ... argument but passes it to install.packages().

• installed.packages() gains a ... argument to allow arguments (including noCache) to be passed from new.packages(), old.packages(), update.packages() and packageStatus().

• Non-UTF-8 multibyte character sets were not handled properly in source references. (PR#16732)

• aggregate(<data.frame>) no longer uses spurious names in some cases. (PR#17283)

Upcoming Events

• 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.

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Quotes of the Week

I am a master of R #rstats pic.twitter.com/vXLCr6QN1z

— PJR (@NeuroPost) June 21, 2017