R Weekly 2017 Issue 1

02 Jan 2017

Hello and welcome to this new issue!

Highlight

• A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2016

• Why you should master R (even if it might eventually become obsolete)

• Behind the scenes of CRAN

• Popular Shows on trakt.tv

Tutorials

• Making a Website Using Blogdown, Hugo, and GitHub pages.

• Fireworks (in R)

• Outlier App: An Interactive Visualization of Outlier Algorithms

• dotplot for GSEA result

• 7 Visualizations You Should Learn in R

• Reactive acronym list in stratvis, a timevis-based Shiny app

• The Instant Rise of Machine Intelligence?

• Tip: Optimize your Rcpp loops

• Combine choropleth data with raster maps using R

• Authentication Proxy on Shiny Open Source

• R code to accompany Real-World Machine Learning (Chapters 2-4 Updates)

• Spatial analysis pipelines with simple features in R

• More on Orthogonal Regression

• R For Beginners: Some Simple R Code to do Common Statistical Procedures, Part Two

• add layer to specific panel of facet_plot output

• Why you should master R (even if it might eventually become obsolete)

• Data Preparation, Long Form and tl;dr Form

• The Basics of Bayesian Statistics

• Extracting data on shadow economy from PDF tables

• Christmas Tree with ggplot

• Computing Sample Size for Variance Estimation

• Distributional Semantics in R: Part 1 {tm} classes + read/write

• Does replyr::let work with data.table?

• Functional programming and unit testing for data munging with R available on Leanpub

• Exploring the European Social Survey (ESS) – pipe-friendly workflow with sjmisc, part 2 #rstats #tidyverse

• The Wordcloud2 library

R in the Real World

• adit - WebVR Grammar of Graphics built on #aframevr #shiny #gglplot2 #rstats

• Using R to prevent food poisoning in Chicago

• Popular Shows on trakt.tv

• Behind the scenes of CRAN

• Analyzing the 2015 California Health Interview Survey in R

• Pokemon and TrelliscopeJS!

• Building a Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu family tree

R in Organization

• Power BI custom visuals, based on R

• Parallelizing Data Analytics on Azure with the R Interface Tool

• 4x3 R-Hackathoning - The Finisher’s Guide

R in Academia

• ecospat: an R package for spatial analysis and modeling species distributions

• Spind: an R package for computing spatially corrected accuracy measures

Videos and Podcasts

• An Interview With Jo Hardin, author of Foundations of Inference

Resources

• A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2016

New Packages and Tools

• naniar - Tools for numerical and visual summaries of NAs

• piwikr - Web Analytics for Hackers

• vueR - vue.js for R

• intrval - Relational Operators for Intervals

• fstrings - Python style fstrings for R.

• autoinst - Automatically install packages when they are missing

New Releases

• ggguitar 0.1.1 - Utilities for Creating Guitar Tablature

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core,

• structure(NULL, ..) is now deprecated as you cannot set attributes on ‘NULL’.

• HAVE_UINTPTR_T and HAVE_STDINT_H is now passed through to Rconfig.h such that Rinterface.h can use the proper types for stack variables.

• pmin() and pmax() now work again for ‘ordered’ factors and 0-length S3 classed objects.

Upcoming Events

• rstudio::conf 2017 January 12 and 14, 2017
  The conference about all things R and RStudio.
  

• SatRday #2 Conference - Cape Town, South Africa 18 Feb, 2017
  The R community and some of South Africa’s most forward thinking companies have come together to bring satRday to Cape Town. This conference brings an opportunity to hear from and network with top Researchers, Data Scientists and Developers from all over the country and the world.

• useR! 2017 July 4, 2017
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community. Its program consists of both invited and user-contributed presentations.
  

Quotes of the Week

This is amazing! Childcare available at #useR2017. Thank you @UseR_Brussels! Hopefully setting a new #rstats conference standard. 💪💜👏 pic.twitter.com/wa7D3BgCCt

— R-Ladies SF (@RLadiesSF) December 27, 2016