R Weekly 2017-25 Plain Text, New dplyr, Spaces Tabs

19 Jun 2017

Highlight

• dplyr 0.7.0 - tidy evaluation, character encoding, new datasets, new & improved verbs and over 100 improvements and bug fixes.

• R in pRoduction: theRe be dRagons!

• Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs

Insights

• Developing tools for exploratory visualization

• Enhancing your research network with social media

• The future of education is plain text

• 7 reasons to teach an online course

• New rOpenSci Packages for Text Processing in R

• Keeping Users Safe While Collecting Data

R in the Real World

• Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs

• Who is talking about the French Open?

• Looking at US History using tidytext: Inaugural Speech Analysis Part 2

• Batman villains & ggraph

• Stats NZ encouraging active sharing for microdata access projects

• Exit poll for June 2017 election (UK)

• papr - rate papers on biorxiv in a single swipe and help science!

R in Academia

• Studying disease with R: RECON, The R Epidemics Consortium

• Building an academic website using blogdown

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD 40 It’s the CDs all over again

R in Organizations

• R in pRoduction: theRe be dRagons!

• Syberia - A development framework for R code in production

• Applications of R at EARL San Francisco 2017

• Some Lessons We Learned Running Cascadia-R

Resources

• Data Cleaning Tricks in R for Boston University’s “Storytelling with Data” workshop

• Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• ari - The automated R instructor

• nneo - NEON API client

• aargh - Easily Expose R Functions to Command Line Arguments

• baseballDBR - A tool to gather and analyze data from the Baseball Databank.

Package Releases

• dplyr 0.7.0 - A grammar of data manipulation

• interp 1.0-27 - Bivariate data interpolation on regular and irregular grids, either linear or using splines

• RcppMsgPack 0.1.1 - RcppMspPack provides R with MessagePack header files.

• circlize 0.4.0 - circular visualization in R

• ashr 2.1-21 - Methods for Adaptive Shrinkage, using Empirical Bayes

• ggsci 2.7 - Scientific journal and sci-fi themed color palettes for ggplot2. New color palettes from JAMA, Tron Legacy, and Material Design.

R Internationally

• (Spanish) Visualizing Google Location History Part 2 - Detecting the user activities and home location

• (Portuguese) br Bloggers: a blog aggregator of content contributed by bloggers who write about R in Portuguese

Tutorials

• An easy way to accidentally inflate reported R-squared in linear regression models

• Up and running with blogdown

• Generating publication-ready sequence logos in R using ggseqlogo

• Quickly Write and Deploy an R API Client

• Creating a Baseball Database with baseballDBR

• How to Write Pelican Blog Posts using RMarkdown & Knitr, 2.0

• How to make and share an R package in 3 steps

• Engaging the tidyverse Clean Slate Protocol

• Use a Join Controller to Document Your Work

• Using purrr with APIs

• Data Science for Business - Time Series Forecasting Part 3: Forecasting with Facebook’s Prophet

• Clustering

• Facilitating Exploratory Data Visualization: Application to TCGA Genomic Data

• Using Go strings in R

• “smooth” package for R. Common ground. Part I. Prediction intervals

• Weather forecast with regression models – part 3

• 6 useful R functions you might not know

• An alternative to calling library a million times

• Facilitating Exploratory Data Visualization: Application to TCGA Genomic Data

• Clustering

• Interfacing with APIs using R: the basics

• Using purrr with APIs – revamping my code

• Data Science for Business - Time Series Forecasting Part 3: Forecasting with Facebook’s Prophet

• #7: C++14, R and Travis – A useful hack

• How to make and share an R package in 3 steps

• 2017-03 Offset Curves for Variable-Width X-splines

• How to Write Pelican Blog Posts using RMarkdown & Knitr, 2.0

• Demo: Real-Time Predictions with Microsoft R Server

• Set Operations Unions and Intersections in R

• How to draw connecting routes on map with R and great circles

• A “poor man’s video analyzer”…

• Non-Standard Evaluation and Function Composition in R

• Weather forecast with regression models – part 4

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• parse() no longer gives spurious warnings when extracting srcrefs from a file not encoded in the current locale.

• New function isFALSE() defined analogously to isTRUE().

• factor() now uses order() to sort its levels, not sort.list(). This makes factor() support custom vector-like objects if methods for the appropriate generics are defined. This change has the side effect of making factor() succeed on empty or length-one non-atomic vector(-like) types (e.g., list), where it failed before.

• fourfoldplot() could encounter integer overflow when calculating odds ratio.

• factor() and hence droplevels() now keep attributes.

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

New blog post: "Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs" https://t.co/mLHlDrbEBm #rstats pic.twitter.com/nCP1rJ0B5s

— David Robinson (@drob) 15 June 2017

If you like Datasaurus, remember the lesson of "O RLY?" owl- don't skip plotting your residuals 🙈https://t.co/pGtXugYUvs #rstats pic.twitter.com/aq8uXArV8p

— Alison Hill (@apreshill) 13 June 2017

XMin is a truly minimalistic and fast theme made by @xieyihui - ca. 150 LOC in total, including HTML and CSS https://t.co/Q4febO7Kyn

— GoHugo.io (@GoHugoIO) June 16, 2017

When I was coding in my hobby room in The Hague, I never thought it would be used so far away, to such a good purpose. #rstats #foss pic.twitter.com/DQ9kto7bdQ

— Mark van der Loo (@markvdloo) June 11, 2017