Issue 7

11 Jul 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• A Simple Prediction Web Service Using the New fiery Package

• Starting Out with R and Shiny by Oliver Keyes

• NSSD Podcast Episode 18: Back on Planet Earth - With highlights from useR! 2016 conference.

News & Blog Posts

Tutorials

• Resume & Interview Tips For R Programmers

• useR! 2016 Tutorials: Part 2

• Bad Coder, Bad Coder! - Careful thought, rather than an obsession with rules, is your ticket to good, clear and efficient code.

• Best practices for logging computational systems in R and Python

• Express dplyr Part II

• Implementing Apriori Algorithm in R

• The ggthemr package – Theme and colour your ggplot figures

• Fast and Big Linear Model Fitting with bigmemory and RcppEigen

• Playing Around with Methods Overloading, C-language and Operators (1)

• A Simple Prediction Web Service Using the New fiery Package

• Macroeconomic charts by the Fed using R and Plotly

• dplyr do: Some Tips for Using and Programming

• Combining ArcGIS and R - Clustering Toolbox

• Reproducibility starts at home

• R programming tools for conservation scientists

• Advanced Regression Models: Learn which regression technique to apply for what cases?

• UseR conference: Fun with statisticians and programmers

• 6 ways to run a “simple” regression

• Interactive flow visualization in R

R in the Real World

• Bridging The Political Polygons Gap with ggplot2

• Breaking down the Brexit vote – Which Local Authorities wanted out? And by how much?

• Latest on the Julia Language (vs. R)

• Text Mining with R on Vikings episode scripts

• Visualizing Stirling’s Approximation With Highcharts

• Euro 2016 analytics: Who’s playing the toughest game?

• How many calories should you eat per day? - US government guidelines by age, sex, activity level.

• Animated world inequality map

• A look at AirBnB demographics

• Data Transparency Through Data: Building an MRR Forecasting Tool in R

R in Organization

• Presenting Renjin’s JIT Loop Compiler at RIOT 2016 - Renjin’s JIT Loop Compiler is intended to compile R code into extremly efficient machine code.

• R for the masses with Power BI

• Notes from 3rd and 3.5th Bayesian Mixer Meetup

R in Bioinformatics

• Fry: A Fast Interactive Biological Pathway Miner by Göknur Giner

Videos & Podcasts

• useR! 2016 videos on Channel 9

• NSSD Podcast Episode 18: Back on Planet Earth - With highlights from useR! 2016 conference.

• Sustainable Urban Transport Planning using Big Data from Mobile Phones

Resources

• Starting Out with R and Shiny by Oliver Keyes

• Tufte in R

New Releases

• tibble 1.1 - now consistently using “tibble” as the key word in creation, coercion, and testing functions. release notes
• httr 1.2.0 - release notes
• xml2 1.0.0 - release notes
• ezsummary 0.2.0 - release notes

New Packages & Tools

• ttbbeer - US Beer Statistics from TTB.

• clustermq - Send function calls as LSF jobs.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• The method argument of sort.list(), order() and sort.int() gains an "auto" option (the default) which should behave the same as before when method was left missing.

• The plot method for ppr has enhanced default labels (xmin and main).

• sample.int() gains an explicit useHash option (with a back compatible default).

• addNA() is faster now, e.g., when applied twice. (Part of PR#16895.)

• Illegal factors, e.g., with duplicated levels (illegal but constructable) now give a warning when printed, via new function .valid.factor().

• sessionInfo() has been updated for Apple’s change in OS naming as from 10.12 (macOS Sierra vs OS X El Capitan).

• Its toLatex() method now includes the running component.

• options("interrupt") can be used to specify a default action for user interrupts. For now, if this option is not set and the error option is set, then an unhandled user interrupt invokes the error option. This may be dropped in the future as interrupt conditions are not error conditions.

• Radix sort is now the default algorithm for double vectors. It no longer rounds.

• stack.data.frame and stack.default preserve the names of empty elements in the levels of the ind column of the return value. Set the new drop argument to TRUE for the previous behavior.

Call for Participation

• satRday! in Budapest, Hungary

Jobs

• 7 new R jobs from around the world (2016-07-05)

Upcoming Events

• R Competition on education in South Africa 8 July - 21 August

• EARL 2016 London 13 September - 15 Septemberth
  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

Thank you to the #SPSS community! I will fight for you while @hadleywickham brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms & beliefs

— Donald Trump, PhD (@ScientistTrump) July 4, 2016