R Weekly 2017-22 Unconf 2017, RFinance, subplots & ggplot2

29 May 2017

Highlight

• R OpenSci Unconference 2017 Projects

• Getting Started With Blogdown

• Arranging subplots with ggplot2

R in Organizations

• Slides, videos, and tweets from the 2017 New York R Conference

• RFinance 2017 videos

• How Airbnb Democratizes Data Science With Data University

R OpenSci Unconference 2017

• R OpenSci Unconference 2017 Projects

• ROpenSci Unconf 2017

• L.A. Unconf-idential : a.k.a. an rOpenSci #runconf17 Retrospective

• My Experience at the 2017 rOpenSci Unconference

• R security practices

R in the Real World

• On Facebook News in the Philippines: Using topic modeling to find trends in online news coverage

• Regular Expression & Treemaps to Visualize Emergency Department Visits

• Housing market recap

• Growth of DataFest over the years

Insights

• R vs Python: Different similarities and similar differences

• R Memes For Statistical Fiends

• Toward tidy analysis

Videos and Podcasts

• Episode 39 - We Listen to Our Data Team

• RFinance 2017 videos

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• lemon - Functions for working with legends and axis lines of ‘ggplot2’, facets that repeat axis lines on all panels, and some ‘knitr’ extensions.

• spacyr - R Wrapper to the spaCy NLP Library

• geofacet - R package for geographical faceting with ggplot2

• strict - This packages tweaks the operation of base R code to make things a little stricter.

Package Releases

• future 1.5.0 - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone … and everywhere

• rtdists 0.7-2 - response time distributions now with Rcpp and faster

• Rcpp 0.12.11 - Loads of goodies

• RQGIS 1.0.0 - An interface between R and QGIS.

• RStudio Connect 1.5.0 – Introducing Tags!

• Microsoft R Open 3.4.0 now available

R Internationally

• S’il te plaît, dessine-moi une carte (avec R) — English - autotranslate

Tutorials

• Getting Started With Blogdown

• Using R: When using do in dplyr, don’t forget the dot

• A Very Palette-able Post

• Arranging subplots with ggplot2

• Connecting R to an Oracle Database

• miniCRAN

• Bagging, the perfect solution for model instability

• The End of the Honeymoon: Falling Out of Love with quantstrat

• The Marcos Lopez de Prado Hierarchical Risk Parity Algorithm

• Facet my geo!

• Machine Learning. Support Vector Machines (Optical Character Recognition).

• R⁶ — Idiomatic (for the People)

• Ridge Regression and the Lasso

• Create smooth animations in R with the tweenr package

• Finally, Four Backticks on Github

• Sunflowers for COLOURlovers

• Index starting points and dataviz

• ggeffects: Create Tidy Data Frames of Marginal Effects for ‚ggplot’ from Model Outputs #rstats

• Counterintuitive probability problem of the day

• Subplots in maps with ggplot2

• Love is all around: Popular words in pop hits

• The Most Popular Baby Names in the US Per Year. An Exercise in R.

• Versioning R model objects in SQL Server

• Managing Spark data handles in R

• Who is the caretaker? Evidence-based probability estimation with the bnlearn package

• Testing the Hierarchical Risk Parity algorithm

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• CRAN Policy Change new rev3679

• aggregate(<data.frame>, drop=FALSE) now also works in case of near-equal numbers in by. (PR#16918)

• path.expand() on Windows now accepts paths specified as UTF-8-encoded character strings even if not representable in the current locale. (PR#17120)

• stopifnot(e, e2, ...) now evaluates the expressions sequentially and in case of an error or warning shows the relevant expression instead of the full stopifnot(..) call.

Upcoming Events

• R in Insurance 2017 June 8, 2017
  This one-day conference will focus on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation.

• 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.

• 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.

Call for Participation

• Call for Conference Buddies at UseR!2017 Forwards and R-Ladies Session July 3, 2017 Participate in the poll.

Quotes of the Week

It's official. My students vastly prefer R over SPSS in an intro stats course for psychology majors #rstats #spss #psychology #teaching

— Tom Carpenter (@tcarpenter216) May 25, 2017

*50+ of the best R programmers in the world* 'raise your hand if you have impostor syndrome!' #runconf17 pic.twitter.com/aiRgHbVCtU

— Oliver Keyes (@kopshtik) May 25, 2017

Pleased to announce that @JennyBryan's reprex package is now an official member of the tidyverse: https://t.co/RFchSO85Ry #rstats

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) May 26, 2017

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