Issue 29

12 Dec 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• I made a map of all the U.S. waterbodies using R

• Where to Go from Here? Tips for Building Up R Experience - So I do have a lot of students ask me, “How did you get so good at R?”

• DataChats: An interview with Charlotte Wickham

• December 16 RStudio Tips and Tricks

Tutorials

• Using R to Analyse Linked Data
• Interacting With Amazon Athena from R
• Using replyr::let to Parameterize dplyr Expressions
• Visualizing geospatial data with your own GeoJSON
• Reading a Table from Yahoo Finance
• Highlighting R code for the web
• The current state of R support in Atom
• Where to Go from Here? Tips for Building Up R Experience - So I do have a lot of students ask me, “How did you get so good at R?”
• How important is that variable?
• k-fold cross validation with modelr and broom
• Pipe Dream - Do you continually substitute %>% for + when switching between data wrangling?
• Who Made the News? Text Analysis using R, in 7 steps
• Non-linear dynamics and chaos using R (1)
• Be careful evaluating model predictions
• Forecast double seasonal time series with multiple linear regression in R
• Cross-validation for time series
• Outlier detection and treatment with R
• How to set up your own R blog with Github pages and Jekyll Bootstrap
• Parametric variable names and dplyr
• scatterpie for plotting pies on ggplot
• Structural Equation Modelling in R (Part 1)
• Why time series forecasts prediction intervals aren’t as good as we’d hope
• 2016-15 Automating R Demonstration Videos

R in the Real World

• Top 5 R Package Maintainers
• I made a map of all the U.S. waterbodies using R
• Break from Unpaid Open Source - I absolutely love working on open source, and I understand that I never ever expected to get anything back from those contributions. However, this cost/benefit analysis doesn’t reconcile and is in absolutely no way sustainable.
• Fantasy Value So Far This Year: ADP vs VOR
• Got ticked off about skittles posts, so I decided to make a proper analysis for /r/dataisbeautiful
• In case you missed it: November 2016 roundup
• Visualizing 15k Instagram Posts with TrelliscopeJS
• the incredible accuracy of Stirling’s approximation
• Secret Santa Picker 2 using R
• Optimization matchup: R’s glpkAPI vs Julia’s JuMP
• Stylometry: Identifying authors of texts using R
• Survey on Data Science In Two Year Colleges
• Solar PVC Growth from One Time Investment: A Monte Carlo Analysis Shiny App
• Crime Analysis – Denver-Part 3

International R

• R, l’Open Source, les RUG et les meetups — English (auto-translate)

R in Organization

• R Consortium Projects Update

• December 16 RStudio Tips and Tricks

• EARL Boston Revisited

Videos and Podcasts

• DataChats: An interview with Charlotte Wickham

Resources

• R Course Finder December update!
• Model Performance in Data Science Live Book
• New: Italian and German Translations of Introduction to R

New Packages and Tools

• languagelayerR — Language detection in R
• ztype — How fast can you type R functions?
• TOSTER - TOST equivalence testing R package (TOSTER) and spreadsheet.
• aws.polly - Speech Synthesis (Text-to-Speech) from AWS Polly
• notifier - Cross platform desktop notifications from R
• November Package Picks

New Releases

• tesseract 1.3 - Tesseract Update: Options and Languages
• RcppAPT 0.0.3 - interface from R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache.
• Microsoft R Server 9.0 - Microsoft R Server 9.0 now available
• dplyrXdf 0.90 - dplyrXdf is a package that brings dplyr pipelines and data transformation verbs to Microsoft R Server’s xdf files.
• pdftools 1.0 - Pdftools provides utilities for extracting text, fonts, attachments and other data from PDF files.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• Sys.timezone() now returns non-NA also on platforms such as Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS.

• format(x) for an illegal "POSIXlt" object x no longer segfaults.

• Failure to create file in tempdir() for compressed pdf() graphics device no longer errors (then later segfaults). There is now a warning instead of error and compression is turned off for the device.

• Asking for methods() on "|" returns only S3 methods.

Upcoming Events

• rstudio::conf 2017 January 13 and 14, 2017
  The conference about all things R and RStudio.
  

Quotes of the Week

Want to remember when you wrote a section of R script? Type "ts" and press Shift+Tab to insert a section header w/ timestamp. #rstats pic.twitter.com/RLTfzlJzDh

— RStudio Tips (@rstudiotips) 2016年12月9日

I don't always send Christmas cards...but when I do, I buy them from the Davis R Users Group fundraiser page https://t.co/VtwjJDpQfA #rstats pic.twitter.com/u83pmsvEff

— Myfanwy (@Voovarb) 2016年12月8日

Journal didn't know what to do with our #rstats supplementary .. so they took screenshots and pasted into word o.Ohttps://t.co/g0GWxZtFda pic.twitter.com/ygz6nhmDiw

— Eiko Fried (@EikoFried) 2016年12月7日

#Rstats: now being used for piracy!https://t.co/6h9G1BHtKT pic.twitter.com/EHrPN62nSm

— Randy Olson (@randal_olson) 2016年12月6日