R Weekly 2017 Issue 17

24 Apr 2017

Highlight

• R 3.4.0 is released!

• Release ‘open’ data from their PDF prisons using tabulizer

• glue - Interpreted String Literals

R in the Real World

• What programming languages are used late at night?

• Of kernels and beeswarms: Comparing the distribution of house values to household income

• Pokemon Types Distribution by Region [OC]

• Shuttering Pies With Retiring Stores

• Personal data collection and analysis

• Gather round and spread the word: Wrangling global house price data

R in Organizations

• Microsoft R Server 9.1 now available

• First openEO hackaton report

Insights

• Book Review: Introduction to Empirical Bayes by David Robinson

• mabbles - The missing piece of a unified theory of tidyness

Resources

• Computing and Fitting Monotone Splines

• Circular Visualization in R

Tutorials

• Easy XML to Data Frames with xml2 while mapping power outages

• Decomposing Composers with R

• Random GeoJSON and WKT with randgeo

• How to use the US National Map as a base layer for your US mapping processes

• Prophet Explore: A Simple Shiny App to Get Introduced to Prophet

• Network visualization with R

• When Homoglyphs Attack! Generating Phishing Domain Names with R

• A Shiny App for Importing and Forecasting Commodities Prices from Quandl

• R for Enterprise: Understanding R’s Startup

• Let’s Pixelate America

• Composing reproducible manuscripts using R Markdown

• Comprehensive Guide on t-SNE algorithm with implementation in R & Python

• Encoding categorical variables: one-hot and beyond

• Online But In-Class Examinations (with an R Example)

• Happy EasteR: Plotting hare populations in Germany

• Playing with Prophet on Bike Sharing Demand Time Series

• Generating Dynamic Nomograms using DynNom

• Housing gets off to a good start

• Bland-Altman Plot for Age Comparisons?

• Creating Interactive Charts with R, Shiny, MySQL and AnyChart JS via Template

• Reproducible Data Science with R

• Programming over R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• antiword - Wraps the AntiWord utility to extract text from Microsoft Word documents.

• JeffLeekMeme - ‘True’ facts about Jeff Leek

• hgr - Tools to Work with the Postlight Mercury API. Mercury takes any web article and returns only the relevant content — headline, author, body text, relevant images and more.

• mastodon - R based Mastodon client

• roadoi - Use oaDOI.org with R, a simple interface which links DOIs and open access versions of scholarly works. oaDOI powers unpaywall.

• hoardr - Suite of tools for managing cached files, targeting use in other R packages.

• glue - Interpreted String Literals

• March ‘17 New Package Picks

Package Releases

• R 3.4.0 is released!

• huxtable 0.2.0 - an R package for creating HTML and LaTeX tables

• ompr 0.6.0 - Model and Solve Mixed Integer Linear Programs

• RcppQuantuccia 0.0.1 - header only essentials of QuantLib

• readxl 1.0.0 - The readxl package makes it easy to get data out of Excel and into R.

• Rblpapi 0.3.6 - Connecting R to Bloomberg

Jobs

• Technical Program Manager at Johns Hopkins University

Call for Participation

• 2017 China-R Beijing May 19-21 - The biggest R conference in China.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Changes in R 3.4.0

Upcoming Events

• 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

#rstats R version 3.4.0 "You Stupid Darkness" (source version) is out of the door now

— Peter Dalgaard (@pdalgd) April 21, 2017

Clippy is sad, because readxl v1.0.0 is out! He's afraid you'll move your data out of Excel and into #rstats. https://t.co/nG0NmwYYkl pic.twitter.com/yfSwc0UfOm

— Jenny Bryan (@JennyBryan) April 19, 2017

R and #Python cheatsheets for #DataScientists: https://t.co/1uZN8FgNL9 #abdsc #BigData #DataScience #Rstats #MachineLearning @rstudio pic.twitter.com/MGLvkedX69

— Kirk Borne (@KirkDBorne) April 19, 2017