R Weekly 2018-17 Successful, Arrow, Maintainers
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Hello and welcome to this new issue!
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R in Organizations
Package Releases
- ggimage 0.1.4 - setting ggplot2 background with ggbackground
ggfortify 0.4.4 - Data Visualization Tools for Statistical Analysis Results
RKWard 0.7.0 - the R GUI/IDE RKWard for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux
uncmbb 0.2.0 - UNC Men’s Basketball Match Results Since 1949-1950 Season
New Packages
CRAN
- sealr - Sealing the R Objects Test and Assert Conditions
GitHub or Bitbucket
Financial Asset Comparison Tool - compare a myriad of financial assets (equities, crypto-currencies) using a variety of metrics.
collegeballR - Package for accessing/analyzing college sports stats
R in Academia
Resources
Insights
R in the Real World
Tutorials
Painless ODBC + dplyr Connections to Amazon Athena and Apache Drill with R & odbc
Making a GIF of Solar Panel Installations in Minnesota and Wisconsin
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core:
removeSource()
now works not only for functions but also for some language objects.optim(*, lower = c(-Inf, -Inf))
no longer warns (and switches the method), thanks to a suggestion by John Nash.axis()
gets new optiongap.axis = NA
for specifying a multiplication factor for the minimal “gap” (distance) between axis labels drawn. Its default is1
for labels parallel to the axis, and0.5
for perpendicular ones.Calls with an S3 class are no longer evaluated when printed, fixing part of PR#17398, thanks to a patch from Lionel Henry.
Upcoming Events in 3 Months
Events in 3 Months:
eRum 2018 May 14-16
European R Users Meeting @ Budapest, HungaryR/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
Applied Finance with R.CascadiaRConf June 2 Portland, OR, US
7eme Rencontres R July 5 & 6
Rennes - AgrocampususeR! 2018 July 10
The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.
More past events at R conferences & meetups.
Call for Participation
Quotes of the Week
Pretty pleased with my new .Rprofile customisation ✨
— annakrystalli (@annakrystalli) 16 d’abril de 2018
?#rstats #superpowers #thelittlethings
Wanna customise yours too? ? usethis::edit_r_profile() pic.twitter.com/wNslgCk1eR
“Turned up to fancy dress party ?! And wished my #RLadies #rstats buddies were there! So I didn’t have to explain my awesome costume choice!” #LegoRLady #rstats ??? #dplyr pic.twitter.com/NcYP1ZXzGs
— LegoRLady (@LEGO_RLady) 18 d’abril de 2018
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