R Weekly 2017 Issue 11

13 Mar 2017

Highlight

• Expressing yourself with R - Hadley Wickham

• R Google Summer of Code 2017 - Organization Page - Students will contribute to free/open-source R packages for 3 months during the summer. Mentors get code written for their project.

• Lesser known dplyr tricks

Insights

• How to ask for help for Bioconductor packages

• What’s Wrong With My Time Series

• Python and R for code development

• Being successful on Kaggle using mlr

• In case you missed it: February 2017 roundup

• useRs Relationship with R - the second in a series of posts on the useR! 2016 survey.

Videos and Podcasts

• What’s new in R 3.3.3 - R Weekly Podcast 2017:11 - Podcast RSS

• Expressing yourself with R - Hadley Wickham

R in the Real World

• Forecasting YYZ Passengers in the Tidyverse

• Mapping 5,000 Years of City Growth

• Hundreds of Guardian blind dates

• Did Mary and John go West? - The final post in the baby-names-the-data-scientist’s-way series.

• The Ramones. Punk is Data, Too - can we use R to analyze punk bands?

• Create Air Travel Route Maps in ggplot: A Visual Travel Diary

• Nasty Nas’ Nasty Rubdown via magick

• Employee Retention with R Based Data Science Accelerator

R Internationally

• Text mining & n-gramme avec R - English (auto-translate)

R in Organizations

• Madrid R User Group, A Brief History

Tutorials

• Making a Case for case_when - This is a brief post on the dplyr::case_when() function.

• Lesser known dplyr tricks

• Tidy spatial data in R: using dplyr, tidyr, and ggplot2 with sf - The new R package sf, which replaces sp for handling spatial objects, is designed to play nicely with the Tidyverse. In this post I show how sf objects are stored as data frames and how this allows them to work with with ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr.

• Building a Blog with Blogdown and GitHub

• Discover hydrological data using the hddtools R package

• Scheduling R scripts and processes on Windows and Unix/Linux

• Hyper-parameter Tuning with Grid Search for Deep Learning

• Changing names in the tidyverse: An example for many regressions

• What does it mean to clean outliers from your data - the connection with loss functions

• Mapping “France at Night” in R

• Hierarchical Clustering Nearest Neighbors Algorithm in R

• 5 Options to Customize R Weekly

• Reproducible Finance with R: Interactive Maps and ETF Analysis

• Missing values imputation with missMDA

• Frankenstein - This is a Voronoi diagraman of Frankenstein.

• Step-Debugging magrittr/dplyr Pipelines in R with wrapr and replyr

• Direct integration of sjPlot-tables in knitr-rmarkdown-documents #rstats

• Resizing spatial data in R

Resources

• Stream processing with R in AWS - Slides

New Packages and Tools

• Huxtable - Huxtable is an R package for creating HTML and LaTeX tables. It provides similar functionality to xtable, but more, with a simpler interface.

• sigr - Simple Significance Reporting

• nhmrcData - NHMRC funding outcomes data made tidy

New Releases

• ggsci 2.4 - Scientific journal and sci-fi themed color palettes for ggplot2. New color palettes from NEJM, LocusZoom, IGV, and Star Trek 🖖 .

• Icarus 0.3 - Icarus provides tools to help perform calibration on margins.

• RcppGSL 0.3.2 - An interface from R to the GNU GSL using the Rcpp package.

• RcppSMC 0.1.5 - Rcpp-based bindings to R for them Sequential Monte Carlo Template Classes

• tidyquant 0.4.0 - PerformanceAnalytics, Improved Documentation, ggplot2 Themes and More

• RProtoBuf 0.4.9 - R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“Protobuf”) data encoding and serialization library

• RVowpalWabbit 0.0.9 - Connects GNU R to the very impressive Vowpal Wabbit fast out-of-core learning system

Call for Participation

• R Google Summer of Code 2017 - Organization Page - Students will contribute to free/open-source R packages for 3 months during the summer. Mentors get code written for their project.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• R 3.3.3 is released

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.

• 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

Remaking @WSJ measles visualization for #dataviz lecture using #rstats . Can you guess what year the vaccine was introduced? pic.twitter.com/pUzRplY1wW

— Rafael A Irizarry (@rafalab)

This truth sears my soul #ihakalectures #rstats pic.twitter.com/1DlRykBayH

— Liza Bolton (@Liza_Bolton)

Gathering thoughts on best way to display trends by US state. Thoughts on this tile map? 👍🤔👎#rstats #ggplot2 pic.twitter.com/xywzBGqoRh

— Corinne Riddell (@datavisitor)