Issue 30

19 Dec 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• The tidyverse is the way forward for me

• usrR 2016 tutorial: Extracting data from the web APIs and beyond

• jshinyserver - jShiny Server is an alternative Shiny server.

Tutorials

• Forecast double seasonal time series with multiple linear regression in R

• Gene homology Part 2 - creating directed networks with igraph

• Reproducible Finance with R: Pulling and Displaying ETF Data

• Piping within pipes

• Organize your data manipulation in terms of “grouped ordered apply”

• The tidyverse is the way forward for me

• Chaos, bifurcation diagrams and Lyapunov exponents with R (2)

• How to monitor Apache Zookeeper with R

• Reproducible Finance with R: A Shiny ETF Map

• How the State of Indiana uses R and Azure to forecast employment - “Big Data” generates a lot of news these days, but sometimes small data still means big computation.

• Dynamically generated Shiny UI

• Simultaneous intervals for smooths revisited - correcting a silly mistake.

R in the Real World

• interactive and styled middle earth map

• Visualizing taxi trips between NYC neighborhoods with Spark and Microsoft R Server

• Image description with Microsoft’s Cognitive Services and R

• I analyzed some world penis data - because why not - With a data package on GitHub tadaadata/loldata.

• Pangaea and R and open palaeo data - Download data from the Pangaea, a major data repository for the earth and environmental sciences.

• Seinfeld Characters - A Post About Nothing - This post is dedicated to my mother - Seinfeld’s greatest fan.

• OnePageR - A Survival Guide to Data Science with R.

International R

• Cartographier le vote pour le Brexit - English - Auto-translate

• #RStats — languagelayeR : accéder à l’API languagelayer avec R - English - Auto-translate

R in Organization

• R Consortium Call for Proposals - The new R Consortium “Call for Proposals” is now open. The deadline for submissions is February 10, 2017.

• ROpenSci: Announcing our first fellowship awarded to Dr. Nick Golding

R in Academia

• Approaches to R education in Canadian universities

• Journal of Statistical Software Vol 75

Videos and Podcasts

• An Interview With David Robinson, Data Scientist at Stack Overflow - Learn how to build a data scientist profile.

• NSSD 28 - Writing is a Lot Harder Than Just Talking - About building data science products that provide a good user experience while adhering to some kind of ground truth, whether it’s in medicine, education, news, or elsewhere.

• Analyzing JSON data by taking advantage of what makes it JSON in R

Resources

• What is the most useful R trick? [closed]

• usrR 2016 tutorial: Extracting data from the web APIs and beyond

New Packages and Tools

• gendeR - An utility to get gender from first names using genderize.io API

• xaringan - Presentation Ninja

• RLightGBM - RLightGBM, R interface to Light Gradient Boosting Machine library

• slipper - Tidy and easy bootstrapping

• bsselectR - Dropdown menus in R Markdown with bsselectR

• nanotime - New package for Nanosecond Resolution Time for R.

• visreg - Visualization of Regression Models

• wishlist - A wishlist of idea from the ISC and community

• widgetframe - Embed htmlwidgets in Responsive iframe.

• thread - R Threads - Experimental Support.

• otr - OTR allows you to have private conversations over by providing Encryption, Authentication, Deniability, and Perfect forward secrecy.

• jshinyserver - jShiny Server is an alternative Shiny server.

New Releases

• revealjs 0.8 - R Markdown Format for reveal.js Presentations

• sparklyr 0.5 - R interface for Apache Spark

• xgboost 0.6 - Extreme Gradient Boosting

• stringdist 0.9.4.4 - Approximate String Matching and String Distance Functions

• anytime 0.1.2 - Anything to ‘POSIXct’ or ‘Date’ Converter.

• RcppCCTZ 0.1.0 - Rcpp interface to CCTZ library.

• RcppArmadillo 0.7.600.1.0 - Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra. RcppArmadillo integrates this library with R.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core,

• print.POSIXct() gets optional tz and usetz arguments, thanks to a report from Jennifer S. Lyon.

• The internal methods of download.file() and url() now report if they are unable to follow the redirection of a http:// URL to a https:// URL (rather than failing silently).

• dev.capture() using Quartz Cocoa device (macOS) returned invalid components if the back-end chose to use ARGB instead of RGBA image format. (Reported by Noam Ross.)

• methods(f) now also works for f "(" or "{".

Upcoming Events

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

Quotes of the Week

Free weekend. This happened.#rstats @rstudio + @unity3d + @oculus = #VR #datatviz @AirbnbEng data#ggplot2 @thomasp85 #ggforce inspired pic.twitter.com/DO7ohv5uuN

— Simon Jackson (@drsimonj)