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Issue 4
Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!
Highlight
Digested by R Weekly Members
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America’s Public Bible - Biblical Quotations in U.S. Newspapers.
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Improving Season on Season -
engsoccerdata
contains complete historical soccer results of major European leagues. How many teams have had runs of six seasons or more of successively improving their league position? -
Using Statcast Data to Predict Hits - Model/predict batted ball outcomes with Statcast data.
R Community Updates
News & Blog Posts
Tutorials
R in the Real World
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America’s Public Bible - Biblical Quotations in U.S. Newspapers.
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Improving Season on Season -
engsoccerdata
contains complete historical soccer results of major European leagues. How many teams have had runs of six seasons or more of successively improving their league position?
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Visualizing obesity across United States by using data from Wikipedia
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Your data vis “Spidey-sense” & the need for a robust “utility belt”
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Set up a twitter filter stream before a conference to properly check out the zeitgeist!
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Using Statcast Data to Predict Hits - Model/predict batted ball outcomes with Statcast data.
R in Organization
R in Academia
Videos & Podcasts
Resources
New Releases
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tidyr 0.5.0 - Easily Tidy Data with
spread()
andgather()
Functions. -
jsonlite 0.9.22 - Distinguish between double and integer.
New Packages & Tools
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geojsonlint - Tools for Validating
GeoJSON
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githubinstall - a more helpful way to install or query R packages hosted on GitHub.
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lazyrmd - make the R Markdown-generated html faster by lazily loading htmlwidgets plots.
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xda - Introducing xda: R package for exploratory data analysis.
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listviewer - R htmlwidget to view lists.
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assertr - Assertive programming for R analysis pipelines.
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SnakeCharmR - A modern #rstats package that allows you to call Python code from R .
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core.
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sessionInfo()
has been updated for Apple’s change in OS naming as from10.12
(macOS Sierra
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toLatex()
method now includes therunning
component. -
as<-()
avoids an infinite loop when a virtual class is interposed between a subclass and an actual superclass. -
Fix level propagation in
unlist()
when the list contains zero-length lists or factors. -
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()
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Fix
order(x, decreasing=TRUE)
whenx
is an integer vector containingMAX_INT
. Ported from a fix Matt Dowle made to ‘data.table’.
Call for Participation
Upcoming Events
- 2016 useR! Stanford - The R User Conference 2016
June 27 - June 30
Jobs
Quote of the Week
Unintentionally creating abstract art in #rstats #ggplot2 If I fail my PhD, I’ll try to sell my plots to an art gal.