R Weekly 2017 Issue 14

03 Apr 2017

Highlight

• Don’t R alone! A guide to tools for collaboration with R

• NSDD 35 Special Guest Sean Taylor - Hilary and Roger talk with Sean Taylor of Facebook about his new software package prophet, how to make tools usable and re-usable, and of course, Excel.

Insights

• The R-help community was started on this day 20 years ago

• R and Singularity

• Reproducible manuscripts are the future?

R in Organizations

• UK government using R to modernize reporting of official statistics

• Using R packages and education to scale Data Science at Airbnb

Videos and Podcasts

• NSDD 35 Special Guest Sean Taylor - Hilary and Roger talk with Sean Taylor of Facebook about his new software package prophet, how to make tools usable and re-usable, and of course, Excel.

• 20 years ago - R Weekly Podcast 2017:14 - RSS

R in the Real World

• Analyzing Scrabble Games

• Revealing Toronto’s Parking Ticket Data

• QR code or dataviz? - a tile plot of weekly changes in mortgage rates

• Data science languages score highly in RedMonk rankings

• Scraping the web for Presidential Inaugural Addresses using #rvest

• Who is old? Visualizing the concept of prospective ageing with animated population pyramids

• Updated Shiny app for Major League Baseball run scoring trends

R Internationally

• Quand Spark rencontre R - English - Autotranslate

• Viens chez moi, j’habite chez une copine… - English - Autotranslate

• Rstudio en Docker Containers - English - Autotranslate

Resources

• Don’t R alone! A guide to tools for collaboration with R

• A Compendium of Clean Graphs in R

Tutorials

• An Introduction to Stock Market Data Analysis with R (Part 1)

• Coordinatized Data: A Fluid Data Specification

• #0: Introducing R^4

• #1: Easy Package Registration

• #2: Even Easier Package Registration

• Processing of GeoJson data in R

• All-in on R⁴ : Progress [bars] on first post

• Building meaningful machine learning models for disease prediction

• Easy leave-one-out cross validation with pipelearner

• Customising Shiny Server HTML Pages

• Generating APA style tables in R: Current challenges

• Delaporte package: The SPARCmonster is sated

• Tutorial: Using R for Scalable Data Analytics

• Perform pairwise Wilcoxon test, classify groups by significance and plot results

• A fast method to add annotations to a plot

• Multilabel Classification with mlr

• Burtin’s Antibiotics visualization in Plotly and R

• Le Monde puzzle [#1000…1025]

• Understanding Linear SVM with R

• Facebook Data Mining using R

• Coordinatized Data: A Fluid Data Specification

• Massively-parallel computations on Azure clusters with R, made easy with doAzureParallel

• Visualize 100 million points with Datashader and Plotly

• Resampling

• Most Popular Learners in mlr

• Take your data frames to the next level.

• Make ggplot2 purrr

• Data Pseudo-Science: Developing a Biorhythm Calculator

• shinyHeatmaply – a shiny app for creating interactive cluster heatmaps

• Simple Gradient Descent on R for linear regression

New Packages & Tools

Go Live for More New Pkgs

• dbplyr - Database (DBI) backend for dplyr

• bismer - Generate Shakespearean insults

• shinyWidgets - Extend widgets available in shiny

• shinyjqui - jQuery UI interactions and effects for shiny

• modules - Provides modules as an organizational unit for source code. Modules enforce to be more rigorous when defining dependencies and have a local search path. They can be used as a sub unit within packages or in scripts.

• pRojects - R package for making projects for various R activities

New Releases

• RcppTOML 0.1.2 - Rcpp bindings for TOML

• nanotime 0.1.2 - Nanosecond Resolution Time for R

• ggedit 0.2.0 - Interactive ‘ggplot2’ Layer and Theme Aesthetic Editor

• RStudio Connect 1.4.4.1

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• The deprecated support for PCRE versions older than 8.20 will be removed in R 3.4.1.

• Make variables with names containing CXX1X are deprecated in favour of those using CXX11, but for the time being are still made available via file etc/Makeconf. Packages using them should be converted to the new forms and made dependence on R (>= 3.4.0).

• 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.

• terms.formula() ignored argument names when determining whether two terms were identical.

• tools::latexToUtf8 went into an infinite loop when given certain inputs.

• Formatting and printing of bibliography entries (bibentry) now by default shows the bibtex code also when there is more than one entry. This also affects citation(). Use options(citation.bibtex.max = 1) to revert to previous behavior.

• More 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 tip: avoid bugs by not saving your work space! pic.twitter.com/yUeKpcdMR9

— Colin Gillespie (@csgillespie) March 27, 2017

#rstats A somewhat belated happy birthday to CRAN (1997-03-26)

— Peter Dalgaard (@pdalgd) April 2, 2017