Issue 16

12 Sep 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• The R Journal, Volume 8, Issue 1

• tidyverse - Easily install and load packages from the tidyverse.

News & Blog Posts

Tutorials

• Custom Styling for htmlwidgets

• Using googlesheets and mailR packages in R to automate reporting

• Build your own neural network classifier in R

• Mirror, mirror on the wall Who’s the fastest of them all

• Tidying computational biology models with biobroom: a case study in tidy analysis

• IBM Data Science Experience: First steps with yorkr

• Showing a different approach to making statistical tests

• Analyze pull requests and Travis builds using Rperform

• GoodReads: Webscraping and Text Analysis with R (Part 1)

• Software engineering data sets

• R Programming – Pitfalls to avoid (Part 1)

• MinechaRts #1 (Minecraft + R + Edgar Anderson’s Iris Data)

• HW Checker: R, AppScripts, & Google Forms

• The palettes of Earth

• Classification in Spark 2.0: “Input validation failed” and other wondrous tales

• What Every R Package Must (REALLY) Contain? An Example on the eRum2016 Package

• Effect-Size Calculation for Meta-Analysis in R #rstats

• Make Easy Heatmaps to Visualize your Turnaround Times

• Exploring Fitness Data in R

R in the Real World

• Why Track and Field Stars Don’t Break Records Like They Used To (But Swimmers Do)

• PPR League Gold Mining – Week 1

• Analyzing #first7jobs tweets with MonkeyLearn and R

• Excel errors and science papers

• Land Conflict, Property Rights and Deforestation in Brasil

• Human in A.I. loop

• Annual Mean Temperature Trends – 12 Airports

• BOOK REVIEW: Financial Analytics with R

• Are Pokémon GO Mentions Really Driving Up Stock Prices? Rebuilding Bloomberg’s News Trends in R

R for Fun

• Chaotic Galaxies

R in Organization

• Sharing thoughts on satRdays R Conference, Budapest 2016 #satRdays

• The start of satRdays

• Postdoctoral Scholar – Sustainable Software and Reproducible Research

• Running R on AWS

• Qlik to add R, Python support

• In case you missed it: August 2016 roundup

• R Epidemics Consortium

R in Academia

• The R Journal, Volume 8, Issue 1

Video and Podcast

• What the world needs now: Even more R/RStudio instructional videos

Resources

• Announcing R Course Finder

• Peer-led Data Analysis in R at UT Austin

New Releases

• googleVis 0.6.1 - R Interface to Google Charts.

• RProtoBuf 0.4.6 - bugfix update.

• magick 0.3 - Magick is a package for Advanced Image-Processing in R.

New Packages & Tools

• tidyverse - Easily install and load packages from the tidyverse.

• rtide - a R package for predicting tide heights (US locations only currently).

• esc - Effect Size Computation for Meta Analysis.

• tidyjson - tidyjson provides tools for turning complex json into tidy data.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• Arithmetic, logic (&, |) and comparison (aka relational, e.g., <, ==) operations with arrays now behave consistently, notably for arrays of length zero.

• Arithmetic between length-1 arrays and longer non-arrays had silently dropped the array attributes and recycled. This now gives a warning and will signal an error in the future, as it has always for logic and comparison operations in these cases (e.g., compare matrix(1,1) + 2:3 and matrix(1,1) < 2:3).

• R CMD config gains a --all option for printing names and values of all basic configure variables.

• Arithmetic, logic (&, |) and comparison (aka relational, e.g., <, ==) operations with arrays now behave consistently. Arithmetic between length-1 arrays and longer non-arrays had silently dropped the array attributes and recycled. This now gives a warning and will signal an error in the future, as it has always for logic and comparison operations in these cases (e.g., compare matrix(1,1) + 2:3 and matrix(1,1) < 2:3).

Upcoming Events

• EARL 2016 London 13 September - 15 September
  The primary focus of the Conference is the commercial usage of R across a range of industry sectors with the aim of sharing knowledge and applications of the language.
  

• 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

Hrm. Load bioconductor stuff or tidyverse first? #rstats pic.twitter.com/kHXt4Eul7D

— Stephen Turner (@genetics_blog)