Issue 26

21 Nov 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• trelliscopejs - An R package that brings faceted visualizations to life while plugging in to common analytical workflows like ggplot2 or the “tidyverse”.

Tutorials

• How to Start a Bookdown Book

• Bayesian Logistic Regression with rstanarm

• simulation under zero measure constraints

• Interactive Volcano Plots in R with Plotly

• Subtitles and captions with ggplot2 v.2.2.0

• Ordering categories within ggplot2 facets

• Bayesian Blood

• In case you missed it: October 2016 roundup

• Align genomic features with phylogenetic tree

• How to make a simple heatmap in ggplot2

• SAS to R Migration for Financial Data: Lessons and Examples

• Using Microsoft’s Emotion API to Settle an Old Argument

• Extreme pie chart polishing

• Pipe-friendly workflow with sjPlot, sjmisc and sjstats, part 1 #rstats #tidyverse

• copy code at your own peril

• Why Within-Subject Designs Require Fewer Participants than Between-Subject Designs

• Easy Cross Validation in R with modelr

R in the Real World

• analysing the US election result, from Oxford, England

• Maps are great – German Gas Prices illustrated

• Contribution of each popular vote to electoral vote outcome, in number of persons, by state

International R

• Guide de survie ggplot2 à destination des datajournalistes (et des autres aussi) - English (auto-translate)

R in Organization

• Data Manipulation with sparklyr on Azure HDInsight

• RStudio IDE Easy Tricks You Might’ve Missed

• Microsoft allows trying its new SQL Server for Linux

• Make R a Legitimate Part of Your Organization

• How to call Cognitive Services APIs with R

• The 5 most downloaded R packages

• A computer vision challenge: finding boats in the Mona Lisa

• The Data Science Workloads in Visual Studio 2017 RC

Resources

• eRum 2016 on Youtube

• Data Rectangling Slides by Jennifer (Jenny) Bryan

Jobs

• R Jobs for R users – 10 jobs from around the world (2016-11-17)

New Releases

• ggplot2 2.2.0 — ggplot2 2.2.0, with four major new features.

• Rcpp 0.12.8 - Seamless R and C++ integration

• ShinyProxy 0.7.0 - Deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations.

• mapmate 0.2.0 - The mapmate package is used for map- and globe-based data animation pre-production.

• svglite 1.2.0 - A lightweight svg graphics device for R.

• BH 1.62.0-1 - BH provides a large part of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R.

New Packages & Tools

• ggedit – interactive ggplot aesthetic and theme editor

• trelliscopejs - An R package that brings faceted visualizations to life while plugging in to common analytical workflows like ggplot2 or the “tidyverse”.

• flock - Process Synchronization Using File Locks

• tesseract - High Quality OCR in R

• prettycode - Syntax highlight R code in the terminal

• Notable New and Updated R packages (to October 2016)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• Package installation into a library where the package exists via symbolic link now should work wherever Sys.readlink() works.

• Reading from stdin now also closes the connection and hence no longer leaks memory when reading from a full pipe.

• "Cincinnati" was missing an "n" in the precip dataset.

• Fix buffer overflow vulnerability in pdf() when loading an encoding file. Reported by Talos Security Advisory for R Project (TALOS-2016-0227).

• No-longer installed headers GraphicsBase.h, RGraphics.h, Rmodules/RX11.h and Rmodules/Rlapack.h which had a LGPL license no longer do so.

Upcoming Events

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

Quote of the Week

R and Python are both negatively correlated with Trump support by county

Correlated with Trump support? C# and PHP#rstats pic.twitter.com/eM5giUPa0s

— David Robinson (@drob)

Functional sequences (saving a dplyr pipeline) are such an underappreciated, overlooked feature. Great for repeat ops on slightly diff data. pic.twitter.com/FbzftIdPT1

— Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)