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Issue 28
Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!
Highlight
Digested by R Weekly Members
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Analysis of software developers in New York, San Francisco, London and Bangalore
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Announcing bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
Tutorials
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Extracting Tables from PDFs in R using the Tabulizer Package
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Bill and Ted Make the best out of a Shi… Stata situation: Rstudio + Rstata + Stata
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Error, trend, seasonality – ets and its forecast model friends
R in the Real World
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The Effective Number of Parties in the Electorate by Year and Region
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Analysis of software developers in New York, San Francisco, London and Bangalore
International R
R in Organization
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Free online course: Analyzing big data with Microsoft R Server
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Announcing bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
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Russell 2000 Quantitative Stock Analysis in R: Six Stocks with Amazing, Consistent Growth
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Using R to Gain Insights into the Emotional Journeys in War and Peace
R in Academia
Videos and Podcasts
Resources
- Learn to Analyze Big Data with R - Free Course
- Learning R programming by reading books: A book list #rstats
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ggplot2 in R
New Packages and Tools
- pushoverr - R Phone Home: Notifications with pushoverr
- fauxpas - HTTP conditions package
- elasticsearchr - a Lightweight Elasticsearch Client for R
- subprocess - A new subprocess package for #RStats
- ggguitar - This package allows you to create guitar tablature in the style of ggplot2.
- Santa’s Little Helper – a function for randomly assigning Secret Santa presents
- datapasta - Datapasta provides three Rstudio addins that give you complete freedom copy and paste data into your RStudio scource editor.
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commonmark - High Performance CommonMark and Github Markdown Rendering in R
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pdfsearch -
pdfsearch
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BERT - a newcomer in the R Excel connection
New Releases
- Microsoft R Open 3.3.2 - Microsoft’s distribution of open source R.
- D3PartitionR 0.3.0 - Plotting D3 Hierarchical Plots in R and Shiny
- anytime 0.1.1 - anytime is a very focussed package aiming to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered … format to POSIXct (or Date) objects.
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core.
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Check customization via environment variables to detect side effects of
.Call()
and.External()
calls which alter their arguments is described in §8 of theR Internals
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The Just In Time byte code compiler is now enabled by default at level 3. For now, the compiler will not compile code containing explicit calls to
browser()
: this is to support single stepping from thebrowser()
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JIT compilation can be disabled using
compiler::enableJIT(0)
or by setting environment variableR_ENABLE_JIT
to0
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Upcoming Events
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rstudio::conf 2017 January 13 and 14, 2017
The conference about all things R and RStudio.
Quote of the Week
I did a statistical study (N=2) about saving factory jobs. R^2=1. Clear evidence that we're on the right track. #Rstats #ggplot2 #badstats pic.twitter.com/e1er8kO90Y
— Lego Grad Student (@legogradstudent)
use ggmissing and visdat to let your coauthors LITERALLY see what they are missing #rstats by @nj_tierney pic.twitter.com/Vz8if3bG83
— Andrew MacDonald (@polesasunder)