R Weekly 2018-8 Environments, Diversity, Tidy Evaluation
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Hello and welcome to this new issue!
Highlight
R-Podcast Episode 24: Yihui Xie Returns (rstudio::conf 2018) Eric reconnects with the first-ever guest of the R-Podcast, RStudio software engineer Yihui Xie. In their conversation you’ll hear about Yihui’s journey since joining RStudio, his vision of how
blogdown
andbookdown
could lead to a streamlined publishing worflow, and much more.
R in the Real World
Happy Galentine’s Day! - Tidytext analysis on selected episodes of Parks & Recreation
Exploratory data Analysis of US Fatal Police Shootings Since 2015
Visualizing population growth rates and doubling times across the world with UN data
Insights
Recapping the best parts of the rstudio::conf 2018 in San Diego, CA.
Sentiment Analysis of 5 popular romantic comedies - Short tutorial on analyzing a sentiment in romantic comedies and creating interesting data visualizations.
R in Organizations
New Packages
CRAN
cancensus - an R interface to access, retrieve, and improve working with Canadian Census data and geography. Site for documentation and examples.
shinyalert - adding popup messages (modals) in Shiny. README for details or click here for a demo
future.callr - Parallel processing via futures using the callr package as the parallel backend. Can be used anywhere in the future ecosystem, e.g. future.apply and doFuture (a foreach adaptor).
GitHub only
- ghentr - tools to make it easier for you to build and share a private package-ecosystem using your instance of GitHub Enterprise [pkgdown site]
Package Releases
future 1.7.0 - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone - now with even less friction and more power to the end user and the developer. … and
future_lapply()
has moved to the future.apply package.matrixStats 0.53.1 - Functions that Apply to Rows and Columns of Matrices (and to Vectors)
BH 1.66.0-1 - provides a sizeable portion of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for R
tidygraph 1.1 - A Tidy API for Graph Manipulation
Videos and Podcasts
NSSD NO.54: Soft Spot for Microsoft Hilary and Roger follow up on his talk at WEHI and the discussion on intelligence analysts. They also discuss Microsoft’s R-related tools, movie spoilers, and other miscellaneous topics.
DataFramed Ep9: Data Science and Online Experiments at Etsy. Discover how data science and online experiments impact business and decision making at Etsy. Hugo Bowne-Anderson’s interview with @Emily Robinson.
R-Podcast Episode 24: Yihui Xie Returns (rstudio::conf 2018) Eric reconnects with the first-ever guest of the R-Podcast, RStudio software engineer Yihui Xie. In their conversation you’ll hear about Yihui’s journey since joining RStudio, his vision of how
blogdown
andbookdown
could lead to a streamlined publishing worflow, and much more.
R Internationally
- Itération de fonctions avec purrr - Tutorial on purrr in French
Tutorials
On struggling with aes(): an intro to writing functions with ggplot outputs
Introducing tidyLPA (an R package for carrying out Latent Profile Analysis)
Getting Started with Geocoding for NYC in R using the new NYC GeoSearch tool
A tutorial on visualizing negative space in a meaningful way, using fish encounter histories
A gentle introduction to tidy descriptive statistics, ANOVAs, and publication-style graphics in R
Predicting job search by training a random forest on an unbalanced dataset
tfestimators - Package: Embeddings for Categorical Variables
shinyalert: Easily create pretty popup messages (modals) in Shiny
Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning: Exploring Brexit with PLS and PCA
Introducing tidyLPA (an R package for carrying out Latent Profile Analysis)
We Want to be Playing with a Moderate Number of Powerful Blocks
neo4j gRaphs - Rmarkdown to start playing with Neo4j in R. Importing data, making queries and graph analytics in a R+Neo4j workflow.
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core:
- Finalizers are now run with interrupts suspended.
Upcoming Events
satRday Cape Town 2018 March 17
satRday Cape TownNew York R conference Aprl 20-21
New York R conference,Discount Code : rladieseRum 2018 May 14-16
European R Users Meeting @ Budapest, HungaryR/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
Applied Finance with R.CascadiaRConf June 2, 2018 Portland, OR, US
7eme Rencontres R 5 & 6 July 2018
Rennes - AgrocampususeR! 2018 July 10, 2018
The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.
More past events at R conferences & meetups.
Jobs
Call for Participation
Rladies NYC Event on Feb 15, 2018 Creating Websites in R and A Data Science Update. Check out more on http://www.rladiesnyc.org
R-Ladies NYC April 2018 Book Club R-Ladies NYC are still gathering suggestions for the bookclub.
Quotes of the Week
Roses are red,
— David Robinson (@drob) February 14, 2018
Violets are blue,
Here is a heart
Made with ggplot2#rstats pic.twitter.com/qJMNiG5ezF
Would you like to intern for @RStudio this summer? I'm excited to announce that we have an official program for the first time ? https://t.co/2NgqCbV2ZM #rstats
— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) February 12, 2018
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