Issue 24

07 Nov 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• List of R conferences and useR groups

• Announcing RStudio v1.0!

• Asynchronous and Distributed Programming in R with the Future Package

News & Blog Posts

Tutorials

• Some vtreat package design principles

• Naive Bayes: A Generative Model and Big Data Classifier

• showCategory parameter for visualizing compareCluster output

• Map Projections for R Shapefiles: United States

• How to add a background image to ggplot2 graphs

• Asynchronous and Distributed Programming in R with the Future Package

• Cute Gibbs sampling for rounded observations

• The Bayesian approach to ridge regression

• What is wrong with lift curves

• Predictability in Network Models

R in the Real World

• R from the future - RStudio’s Lionel Henry gives his ideas for the future of R syntax

test_that("new syntax works") {

   data <- list(mtcars, 1, 2, list(3, mtcars, 4))
   expected <- lapply(data, function(x) is.list(x) || is.double(x))

   mtcars |>
     [1, 2, [3, _, 4]] |>
     map([x] -> is.list(x) || is.double(x)) |>
     check_equal(expected)

 }

• Searches for “iPhone slow” make huge spikes right after every new iPhone release

• Wealth Distribution in the Online Game - EVE

• How to create crime maps of Mexico City

• RTutor: CO2 Trading and Risk of Firm Relocation

• A Bayesian election prediction, implemented with R and Stan

• Running the Numbers – How Can Hamilton Still Take the 2016 F1 Drivers’ Championship?

• The Polls of the Future Are Reproducible and Open Source

• Nobel Laureates - A Closer Look At The Data

• ggmail + forecast = how many emails I will get tomorrow?

R in Organization

• Introducing RC RUGS: R Consortium R User Group Support Program

• The International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Applications (MCM) will take place in Montréal 2017

• Announcing RStudio v1.0!

R in Academia

• Weighted Effect Coding: Dummy coding when size matters

Resources

• List of R conferences and useR groups

• Feuilleton - Here we offer ephemera, a little light reading and some more challenging material.

• Advanced R Solutions - This book aims to contribute the solutions to Hadley Wickhams book Advanced R. It is planed to finish until end of 2016.

New Releases

• RStudio 1.0 - 10th major release since the initial launch in February 2011.

• rbokeh 0.5.0 - Plotting library based on BokehJS.

• RProtoBuf 0.4.7 - The RProtobuf package provides R with facilities to use Google Protocol Buffers files and messages.

• drat 0.1.2 - drat stands for drat R Archive Template, and helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages.

• ShinyProxy 0.6.0 - ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations.

• NIMBLE - NIMBLE package for hierarchical modeling (MCMC and more) faster and more flexible.

New Packages & Tools

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

• packagedocs - Build an R Package Documentation Website.

• Rmazon - Download product information and reviews from Amazon.com .

• isdparser - Parse NOAA Integrated Surface Data Files.

• BelgiumMaps.StatBel

• glmnetUtils - Quality of life enhancements for elastic net regression with glmnet

• foghorn - R package to summarize CRAN Check Results in the Terminal.

• rgeoapi - a package to access the French GeoAPI, now on CRAN.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• rep(x, times) and rep.int(x, times) now both work also when times is larger than the maximal integer.

• vapply(x, *) now works with long vectors x.

• isS3method("is.na.data.frame") and similar are correct now.

• unix.time(), a traditional synonym for system.time(), has been deprecated.

• grepRaw(<long>, <short>, fixed = TRUE) now works, thanks to a patch by Mikko Korpela.

• R CMD check --no-stop-on-error now continues running tests even if they give (normal) errors.

Upcoming Events

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

Quote of the Week

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