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Issue 22
Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!
Highlight
Digested by R Weekly Members
News & Blog Posts
Tutorials
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RStudio in the Cloud II: Syncing Code & Data with AWS: a continuation of a previous post on setting up RStudio in the cloud on Amazon Web Services. This tutorial demonstrates transferring data and code to/from the cloud with GitHub and S3.
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Running sparklyr – RStudio’s R Interface to Spark on Amazon EMR
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Rmarkdown in a scientific workflow - Using Rmarkdown with Rstudio and for all stages of my scientific projects has been a remarkable shift in how my work gets done!
R in the Real World
- Is Unemployment Higher under Labour or the Conservatives? - This post has covered using rectangles as annotations to show the British unemployment rate under different political parties, plus how to use breaks in your axes scaling.
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The History of Strikes in Britain, Told Using Line Plots and Annotations
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Exploring the effects of healthcare investment on child mortality in R
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Don’t buy a brand new Porsche 911 or Audi Q7!! - Many people know that nasty feeling when buying a brand new car. The minute that you have left the dealer, your car has lost a substantial amount of value. Unfortunately this depreciation is inevitable, however, the amount depends heavily on the car make and model.
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How long do I have to survive without cake? - A more fun example of survival analysis is to consider the time in between someone bringing cake to work.
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Tourism forecasting competition data in the Tcomp R package - A new R package
Tcomp
makes data from the 2010 tourism forecasting competition available in a format designed to facilitate the fitting and testing of en masse automated forecasts, consistent with the M1 and M3 forecasting competition data in theMcomp
R package.
R in Organization
- The Team Data Science Process - As more and more organizations are setting up teams of data scientists to make sense of the massive amounts of data they collect, the need grows for a standardized process for managing the work of those teams.
R in Academia
Jobs
Video and Podcast
Resources
- How to write a useful htmlwidgets in R: tips and walk-through a real example - I’d like to share some tips and recommendations on building htmlwidgets, based on my own learning experience while creating timevis.
New Releases
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R Tools for Visual Studio 0.5 - the open-source Visual Studio add-in for R programmers.
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DOM 0.3 - This version represents a major refactoring of the package code, including its user-facing API.
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anytime 0.0.4 - Convert Any Input to Parsed Date or Datetime
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gettz 0.0.2 -
gettz
provides a possible fallback in situations where Sys.timezone() fails to determine the system timezone.
New Packages & Tools
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August Package Picks by Joseph Rickert - 141 new packages landed on CRAN in August. The following are my picks for the most interesting packages in four categories.
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gpg - Encryption and Digital Signatures in R using GPG.
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core.
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xtabs(~ exclude)
no longer fails from wrong scope. -
str(x)
’s default method is more “accurate” and hence somewhat more generous in displaying character vectors; this will occasionally change R outputs (and need changes to some*.Rout(.save)
files). For a classed integer vector such asx <- xtabs(~ c(1,9,9,9))
,str(x)
now shows both the class and"int"
, instead of only the latter.
Upcoming Events
- rstudio::conf 2017 January 13 and 14, 2017
The conference about all things R and RStudio.
Quote of the Week
Reshaping data with tidyr explained in one slide. #rstats #datawrangling pic.twitter.com/LKezMCotKS
— Frederik Aust (@FrederikAust)