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Issue 1
Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!
R Community Updates
News & Blog Posts
Tutorials
R in the Real World
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Understanding Bayesian A/B testing (using baseball statistics)
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Win, Lose, or Draw: where and why do NBA fans spend their money?
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Improving your average: using R to beef up Average Time on Page
R in Academia
Videos & Podcasts
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NSSD Episode 16 - The Silicon Valley Episode.
New Releases
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Data visualization in social sciences – what`s new in the sjPlot-package?
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topicmodels release 0.2-4 : Issues concerning memory deallocation in the C++ code were fixed.
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rio release 0.4.6 : A Swiss-Army Knife for Data I/O. Now supports feather
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gamlss: Generalised Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape.
New Packages & Tools
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feather on CRAN - Read and write feather files, a lightweight binary columnar data store designed for maximum speed.
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largeVis - High-Quality Visualizations of Ultra-Large, High-Dimensional Datasets.
- ggnet2 - Network Visualization with ggplot2.
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roll on CRAN - Parallel functions for computing rolling statistics of time-series data.
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rfmt - Google R source code formatter with Python.
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tmap - R package for thematic maps.
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surveyplanning - Tools for sample survey planning, including sample size calculation, estimation of expected precision for the estimates of totals, and calculation of optimal sample size allocation.
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tidytext - Text mining using dplyr, ggplot2, and other tidy tools.
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crtests - Classification and Regression Tests.
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recommenderlab - Lab for Developing and Testing Recommender Algorithms. The Author of
arules
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bastah on CRAN - Big Data Statistical Analysis for High-Dimensional Models.
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weathermetrics on CRAN - Functions to Convert Between Weather Metrics.
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tweenr - Interpolate your data between different states.
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core.
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identical()
gets anignore.srcref
option which drops"srcref"
and similar attributes when true (as by default). -
diag(x, n=.)
now preservestypeof(x)
, also for logical, integer and rawx
(and as previously for complex and numeric). -
diag(x, nrow = n)
now preservestypeof(x)
, also for logical, integer and rawx
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smooth.spline()
now allows to specify lambda directly, gets ahatvalues()
method and keepstol
in result. -
str()
andstrOptions()
get a new optiondrop.deparse.attr
with improved but changed default behaviour for expressions. Forexpression
objectsx
,str(x)
now may remove extraneous white space and truncate long lines.
Call for Participation
No tasks listed for this week.
Upcoming Events
- 2016 useR! Stanford - The R User Conference 2016
June 27 - June 30
The schedule for #user2016 is now live: http://schedule.user2016.org
Jobs
No jobs listed for this week.
Quote of the Week
A beginner’s guide to big data terminology
R is a horribly named programming language that works with statistical computing.