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R Weekly 2017 Issue 5

Highlight

R in the Real World

Metro Systems Over Time

Women in the 2016 Stack Overflow Survey

One View of the Impact of the New Immigration Ban (+ freeing PDF data with tabulizer)

Insights

R in Organization

Tutorials

Finding antipodes using the globe and ggmap packages

Creating a “balloon plot” as alternative to a heat map with ggplot2

Videos and Podcasts

Resources

New Packages and Tools

  • ggbash - A Simpler ggplot2 Syntax, saving half of your typing.

ggbash

  • orangetext - 🍊📄 : An #rstats project to keep track of The 🍊 One’s speeches

  • benchmarkme - Crowd sourced benchmarking

  • liteq - Lightweight Portable Message Queue Using ‘SQLite’.

  • fst - Lightning Fast Serialization of Data Frames

New Releases

Updated Example Repo for RMarkdown and Metropolis/Mtheme

RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2_0.2-4 is on CRAN

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

  • If a reference class has a validity method, validObject will be called automatically from the default initialization method for reference classes.

  • xtabs() works more consistently with NAs, also in its result no longer setting them to 0. Further, a new logical option addNA allows to count NAs where appropriate.

  • dev.capture() using Quartz Cocoa device (macOS) returned invalid components if the back-end chose to use ARGB instead of RGBA image format.

  • Header Rconfig.h no longer defines SUPPORT_OPENMP; instead use _OPENMP (as documented for a long time).

Call for Participation

Upcoming Events

  • SatRday #2 Conference - Cape Town, South Africa 18 Feb, 2017
    The R community and some of South Africa’s most forward thinking companies have come together to bring satRday to Cape Town.

  • useR! 2017 July 4, 2017
    The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.

Quotes of the Week