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Issue 3
Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!
Highlight
Digested by R Weekly Members
R Community Updates
News & Blog Posts
Tutorials
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A very useful set of 254 slides on high performance computing
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Static and dynamic network visualization with R - code and tutorial from Polnet 2015 workshop.
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Travis with Cron Jobs - Useful for R package developers.
R in the Real World
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Right or Wrong? - Validate Numbers Like a Boss - How does a statistician ensure that an analysis that comprises of outputting results is correct?
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When Should One Stop Testing Software? - How long to continue testing your software before shipping.
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Why is it really difficult to hire testers? - A Study of Software Testers.
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Dream Analysis in R - Whether I can predict the number of dreams I’ll remember and how happy those dreams will be using data collected in self-tracking apps.
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Women in Orchestras - The members of ten top orchestras of the world.
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Building the Data Matrix for the Task at Hand and Analyzing Jointly the Resulting Rows and Columns
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Text and Sentiment Analysis with Trump, Clinton, Sanders Twitter data
R in Organization
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IBM Invests in R Programming Language for Data Science; Joins R Consortium
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R, Python Duel As Top Analytics, Data Science software – KDnuggets 2016 Software Poll Results - R remains the leading tool, with 49% share
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This House(ing Market) is on Fire! - Analysing US Housing Market with Census & Zillow Data in R
R in Academia
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camtrapR: an R package for efficient camera trap data management - Methods in Ecology and Evolution - on CRAN
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R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use (finally) - and the comments on Hacker News
R for Fun
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Puppet Roger Peng ep1 - Render a totally heavy metal 3d interactive skull, in R.
Videos & Podcasts
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XGBoost A Scalable Tree Boosting System - blog post link
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JJ Allaire - What new things from RStudio are you excited for?
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ggplot2 SparkR: Rebooting ggplot2 for Scalable Big Data Visualization
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Introducing Flexdashboard: an R Markdonw Format for Quick, Intelligent Dashboards by Garrett Grolemund (@garrettgman) - materials
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NSSD Podcast - Diurnal High Variance
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Complex Ecological and Evolutionary Systems - A course in the R statistical computing language by video podcast.
Resources
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Data Science for Political and Social Phenomena - The motivation for this site and ongoing book project is to bridge that gap: to create a practical guide to applying data science to political and social phenomena.
New Releases
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BetaBit - Frequency analysis challenge console-based game
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fodr - An R package to access French Open Data portals.
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haven - Conversion semantics - Better support for SPSS/Stata/SAS NAs + labels in haven.
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sunburstR - With more precise color control for coord.
- bdvis - Visualize completeness of biodiversity data.
New Packages & Tools
- shinytoastr - Notifications in shiny apps via toastr.js
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idbr on CRAN - access the US Census Bureau International Data Base in R
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ggplot1 - ggplot1 is mostly made available out of historical interest, to illustrate how Hadley thinking about API design in R has evolved over the years.
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manhattanly - interactive plots for manhattan and Q-Q plots.
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rbhl - R interface to the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) API.
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rprev - Simulating disease prevalence estimates.
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gdeltr2 - R interface to the data stores and APIs of The GDELT Project.
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googleway - Retrieves data from Google Maps APIs.
- HIBPwned - Bindings for the HaveIBeenPwned.com Data Breach API.
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core.
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diff(<difftime>)
now keeps the"units"
attribute, as subtraction already did, PR#16940. -
extSoftVersion()
now reports the version (if any) of thereadline
library in use. And some other patches aboutreadline
library. -
as<-()
avoids an infinite loop when a virtual class is interposed between a subclass and an actual superclass. -
Fix S3 dispatch on S4 objects when the
methods
package is not attached. -
Internal S4 dispatch sets
.Generic
in the method frame for consistency withstandardGeneric()
, PR#16929. -
Fix
order(x, decreasing=TRUE)
whenx
is an integer vector containingMAX_INT
. Ported from a fix Matt Dowle made todata.table
.
Call for Participation
No tasks listed for this week.
Upcoming Events
- 2016 useR! Stanford - The R User Conference 2016
June 27 - June 30
Jobs
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Quote of the Week
Just realized that tidyr (#rstats package for cleaning dirty data) is an anagram of “dirty”. Whoa.
Summer reading. #rstats (click the link to read more)
CRAN submit help: 1. @hadleywickham - http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/ 2. @kwbroman - http://kbroman.org/pkg_primer/pages/cran.html 3. @xieyihui http://yihui.name/en/2009/10/50000-revisions-committed-to-r/ !