Issue 17

19 Sep 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• Why scientists must share their research code - Reproducibility editor Victoria Stodden explains the growing movement to make code and data available to others.

• Shiny 0.14 - Bookmarkable state, notifications, progress indicators, modal windows and more.

• Setting up RStudio in the cloud on Amazon Web Services

News & Blog Posts

Tutorials

• Pitfalls in Writing Portable C++98 Code - I’ve now made enough submissions to CRAN that have crashed and burned on Solaris, that I think it’s now time to put some of the pitfalls I’ve bumped into in writing.

• How to download new Census data with R - 2015 American Community Survey data is out. Here’s how to get the data you want using R.

• Titanic: Getting Started With R - Step-by-step: Getting Started With R.

• Setting up RStudio in the cloud on Amazon Web Services

• How I made some Pokémon Business Cards

• mlr loves OpenML

• From Jupyter Notebooks to R Markdown

• Statistics with TSQL and R: Chi Square Test

• Why you need version control

• Monitoring R Applications with RZabbix

• Forecasting Opportunities - Forecasting trading opportunities with R.

• Creating an animation using R

• Turning keywords into a co-occurrence network

• R with Parallel Computing from User Perspectives

• Recursion in R - Working in d3.js often requires recursion with nested data. Recursion in R can be tricky.

R in the Real World

• Scheduling R scripts for a team using RStudio Server, Docker, Github and Google Compute Engine

• Analysing the Modelled Territorial Authority GDP estimates for New Zealand

• Did Wages Detach from Productivity in 1973? An Investigation

• Some insights in soccer transfers using Market Basket Analysis

• Weapons of Math Destruction – A Data Scientist’s Guide to Disarmament

• What is the cost of a progress bar in R?

• cricketr sizes up legendary All-rounders of yesteryear - In this post I use my R package cricketr to analyze the performance of All-rounder greats namely Kapil Dev, Ian Botham, Imran Khan and Richard Hadlee.

• Data Scientist with a wine hobby (Part I) - Exploring rvest

• No more excuses: R is better than SPSS for psychology undergrads, and students agree

R in Organization

• Building Deep Neural Networks in the Cloud with Azure GPU VMs, MXNet and Microsoft R Server

• Data Science 101, now online

• Volunteer to help improve R’s documentation

• 2016 Data Science Salary Survey results

• A predictive maintenance solution template with SQL Server R Services

• Reflections on EARL London 2016

• Utilising Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine DSVM for your labs

• Data visualization challenge at the first SatRdays conference

R in Academia

• Why scientists must share their research code - Reproducibility editor Victoria Stodden explains the growing movement to make code and data available to others.

Video and Podcast

• NSSD 21: #1 Side Project

Resources

• Network visualization with R

• Commerce Data usability project

New Releases

• Rattle 5.0.0 Alpha - ggraptR and Microsoft R Support.

• Shiny 0.14 - Bookmarkable state, notifications, progress indicators, modal windows and more.

• tidyverse 1.0.0 - The tidyverse is a set of packages that work in harmony because they share common data representations and API design.

• DOM 0.2 - ‘DOM’ package adds the ability to append SVG content to a web page.

• OpenStreetMap 0.3.3 - Access to Open Street Map Raster Images.

• imager 0.30 - imager is an R package for image processing, based on CImg.

• stringdist 0.9.4.2 - Approximate String Matching and String Distance Functions.

• Hunspell 2.0 - High-Performance Stemmer, Tokenizer, and Spell Checker for R.

• lubridate 1.6.0 - Make Dealing with Dates a Little Easier.

New Packages & Tools

• anytime 0.0.1 - Anything to ‘POSIXct’ or ‘Date’ Converter.

• shinyLP 1.0.0 - Bootstrap landing home pages for shiny apps.

• HIBPwned 0.1.3 - Bindings for the ‘HaveIBeenPwned.com’ Data Breach API.

• simputation - Easy to use interfaces to a number of imputation methods.

• ClusterR 1.0.1 - Gaussian Mixture Models, K-Means, Mini-Batch-Kmeans and K-Medoids Clustering.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• Use of the C/C++ macro NO_C_HEADERS is deprecated (no C headers are included by R headers from C++ as from R 3.3.0, so it should no longer be needed).

• apropos() and find(simple.words = FALSE) no longer match object names starting with . which are known to be internal objects (such as .__S3MethodsTable__.).

• Connections now print() without error, even if invalid, i.e., typically after having been closed.

• R CMD check now checks that output files in inst/doc are newer than the source files in vignettes.

• For consistency with other package subdirectories, files named *.r in the tests directory are now recognized as tests by R CMD check.

Upcoming Events

• eRum 2016 Poznan, Poland 12 October - 14 October
  European R users meeting (eRum) is an international conference that aims at integrating users of the R language. eRum 2016 will be a good chance to exchange experiences, broaden knowledge on R and collaborate.
  

Quote of the Week

This amuses me way too much... pic.twitter.com/7dAWHWLMlX

— Thomas Pedersen (@thomasp85) September 12, 2016

OH from the grad student office next to mine: “Oh, F*ck you, Excel!"

— Amelia McNamara (@AmeliaMN) September 13, 2016