R Weekly 2019-09 Lego, group_split

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Hello and welcome to this new issue!

Release Date: 2018-03-04

Highlight

• rstudio::conf 2019 Workshop materials now available

• Let’s get Lego’d!

• A wee look at group_map and group_split in dplyr

Insights

• How to use a small dataset to implement a chord diagram using the Viridis palette.

• RVowpalWabbit 0.0.13: Keeping CRAN happy

• RcppStreams 0.1.3: Keeping CRAN happy

• Cloudy with a chance of Caffeinated Query Orchestration – New rJava Wrappers for AWS Athena SDK for Java

• More on Macros in R

• Read all about it! Navigating the R Package Universe

• Le Monde puzzle [#1087]

• R Journal Volume 10/2, December 2018 is out!

• “If You Were an R Function, What Function Would You Be?”

• drat All The ?! : Enabling Easier Package Discovery and Installation with Your Own CRAN-like Repo for Your Packages

• htmlunitjars Updated to 2.34.0

• A wee look at group_map and group_split in dplyr

• Bayesian state space modelling of the Australian 2019 election

• it depends: a dialogue about dependencies

• Overlapping confidence intervals: correcting bad intuition

• The secret lives of R objects

R in the Real World

• R Journal publication journey

• R at scale on the Google Cloud Platform

• stats19: a package for road safety research

R in Academia

• handlr: convert among citation formats

New Packages

? Go Live for More New Pkgs ?

CRAN

• stats19: Work with Open Road Traffic Casualty Data from Great Britain

• handlr: Convert Among Citation Formats

• RichR: Enrichment for Diseases in a Set of Genes

• shinyEventLogger: Logging Events in Shiny Apps

• volleystat: Detailed Statistics on Volleyball Matches

GitHub or Bitbucket

• CLAPmagrittrCLAP: %?️%

• whereami: Reliably return location where command is called from in R

• gpt2samples: Access generated sample texts from Open AI’s GPT-2 language model as tidy data frames

Updated Packages

• officer: Manipulation of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Documents

Videos and Podcasts

• Not So Strandard Deviations: 75 - Data Science Lite

• Data Skeptic: Text mining in R

• R-Podcast Episode 28 - Tidymodels with Max Kuhn: Eric is joined by RStudio software engineer Max Kuhn to discuss the state of the Tidymodels ecosystem and ideas for how life sciences can utilize R effectively.

• rstudio::conf 2019 Workshop materials now available

R Internationally

• CDSBMexico: remember to apply for BioC2019 travel scholarships

Tutorials

• Let’s get Lego’d!

• Interactively run R in Jupyter notebooks on the web using Binder

• Animate intermediate results of your algorithm

• Improve your R animations by implementing pause frames for emphasis

• Introducing Rank Data Analysis with Arkham Horror Data

• A example in causal inference designed to frustrate: an estimate pretty much guaranteed to be biased

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• satRday Johannesburg - 6th April

• satRday Newcastle - 6th April

• satRday Los Angeles - 6th April

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

• ISC Call for Proposals

• call for sessions and labs at Bay2sC0mp²⁰

• CDSBMexico: remember to apply for BioC2019 travel scholarships

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! ?

Quotes of the Week

I'm adding @Mapbox vector tiles to #mapdeck #rstats .

It's early days, so let me know any comments, suggestions, recommendations, requests, contributions etc. on the github page https://t.co/oUdioWiTlw pic.twitter.com/JxEFdwVoXl

— Symbolix (@symbolixAU) February 27, 2019

I have slowly and stealthily been requesting #rstats books thru my university's Request a Book service to support awesome R authors, and today got another book request approved! (@richierocks writing unit tests, prev @sharon000, @jkregenstein) ??? ?

What others should I request?

— Angela Li (@CivicAngela) March 1, 2019

Ok #rstats folks, what are your favorite funny, silly, lighthearted R projects?

— Kara Woo (@kara_woo) February 27, 2019

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