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Issue 25

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

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News & Blog Posts

R & Election - After

R & Election - Before

Sentiment Analysis of the Three 2016 Presidential Debates

Election 2016 — Debate Three on Twitter

Tutorials

CPOE Verbal Written Cosigned
Med 49.3 8.7 42.0 75.30 (rank: 02)
Surg 30.0 4.0 66.0 52.00 (rank: 03)
ER 89.5 7.0 3.5 88.50 (rank: 01)
Orth 8.0 23.0 69.0 13.00 (rank: 04)

Timeseries forecasting using extreme gradient boosting

R in the Real World

R in Organization

AirBnB grows by sharing data scientist knowledge

R in Academia

Resources

New Releases

  • rms 5.0-0 - Regression Modeling Strategies.

  • anytime 0.1.0 - anytime aims to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, … format to POSIXct (or Date) objects.

  • gettz 0.0.3 - gettz provides a possible fallback in situations where Sys.timezone() fails to determine the system timezone.

  • DOM 0.4 - The main change in this version is the addition of new functions that allow control over the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) content of a web page.

  • Shiny Server (Pro) 1.5

  • pkgKitten 0.1.4 - Creating R Packages that purr

New Packages & Tools

  • USA.county.data - Open dataset of counties from the United States

  • knowledge-repo - A next-generation curated knowledge sharing platform for data scientists and other technical professions from AirBnB.

  • packagedocs - Build an R Package Documentation Website.

  • BelgiumMaps.StatBel - R package with Administrative boundaries of Belgium.

  • regtools - Tools for linear, nonlinear and nonparametric regression and classification.

  • crul - an HTTP client.

  • trump - Instantly segfault your R session.

trump

  • ggloop - Create ‘ggplot2’ Plots in a Loop

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

  • The JIT byte code compiler is now enabled by default at level 3. This means functions will be compiled on first sue and top level loops will be compiled and then run. Thanks to Tomas Kalibera for extensive work to make this possible. For now, the compiler will not compile code containing explicit calls to browser(). This is to support single stepping from the browser() call. The JIT can be disabled using compiler::enableJIT().

  • R CMD check --no-stop-on-test-error now continues running tests (in tests/) even if they give errors.

Upcoming Events

  • rstudio::conf 2017 January 13 and 14, 2017
    The conference about all things R and RStudio.

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