R Weekly 2017-51 Workflow, Epidemics, Mappers

18 Dec 2017

Highlight

• Project-oriented workflow

• RECON learn: a free, open platform for training material on epidemics analysis

• University of Edinburgh’s coding club R tutorials

• A Crazy Little Thing Called {purrr} - Part 4: mappers

Insights

• How to develop good R packages (for open science)

• Milestone: 12,000 packages on CRAN

• How I Learned R

• When a Tweet Turns Into an R Package

• Project-oriented workflow

• Personal note on joining the Microsoft Cloud Advocates team

• nrow, references and copies

• R in the Windows Subsystem for Linux

• #12: Know and Customize your OS and Work Environment

R in the Real World

• Philippines Dengvaxia Vaccine Scam

• Using rtweet to Create a tidyverse Twitterbot

• Example Shiny App - Interest Rate Walk

• Winning an argument by extracting and visualizing pop singers vocal range

• Using the tuber package to analyse a YouTube channel

• Where to live in Poland or where to move

• Vince Guaraldi’s Music from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, A Festive Analysis

• Color palettes derived from the Dutch masters

• Inter-operate with ‘MQTT’ Message Brokers With R (a.k.a. Live! BBC! Subtitles!)

• Image Classification on Small Datasets with Keras

 R in Academia

• Monitoring hybrid open access with Crossref and oa-intact metadata

• What the world is data science education? Looking back on #dsetonline

• Dashboard from from a dissertation research with the title ‘Interactions 3 : Language, demographics, and personality; an in-depth analysis of German tweets.’

• Data acquisition in R (3/4): Demographic data sources

New Packages

• BRRR - Rap adlibs in R.

• nipals - Principal components via Nonlinear Partial Least Squares.

• snowflakes - Random Snowflake Generator

• cablecuttr - An R wrapper for CanIStream.It API

Package Releases

• styler 1.0.0

• europepmc 0.2 - new vignette “Making proper trend graphs”

• mgcViz 0.1 - visual tools for Generalized Additive Models

• RVowpalWabbit 0.0.10 - connects R to Vowpal Wabbit fast out-of-core learning system.

• Shiny Server (Pro) 1.5.6

• Lots of Package News

R Internationally

• Imagenes de los tweets mencionando a la DuraznoConf

• Airbnb legt im Kanton Zürich weiter zu

Resources

• RECON learn: a free, open platform for training material on epidemics analysis

• University of Edinburgh’s coding club R tutorials

• formula.tools, Utilities for working with formulas, expressions, calls and other R objects

• here, A Simpler Way to Find Your Files

• margins - Marginal Effects for Model Objects, An R Port of Stata’s margins Command

Tutorials

• Introduction to Queueuing Theory in R

• Connecting R to Keras and TensorFlow

• Recording and replaying plots with the recordPlot function

• Using rtweet to Create a tidyverse Twitterbot

• When there’s a fork in the road, take it. Or, taking a look at marginal structural models.

• styler - A non-invasive source code formatter for R

• How to Use googlesheets to Connect R to Google Sheets

• A Workaround For When Anti-DDoS Also Means Anti-Data

• What the SATs Taught Us about Finding the Perfect Fit

• Random walking

• A minimal Project Tree in R

• Leveraging pipeline in Spark trough scala and Sparklyr

• Point Pattern Analysis using Ecological Methods in R

• A Crazy Little Thing Called {purrr} - Part 4: mappers

• Stock-Recruitment Graphing Questions

• Explaining Predictions of Machine Learning Models with LIME - Münster Data Science Meetup

• A chart of Bechdel Test scores

• Introduction to Skewness

• #13: (Much) Faster Package (Re-)Installation via Binaries

• Team Rtus wins Munich Re Datathon with mlr

• Getting started with seplyr

• Comparing smooths in factor-smooth interactions II

Gist & Cookbook

• Purrr’ific 😺 way to do parallelized random grid-search of hyperparameters w/ K-fold CV error rate for Random Forest🌲🎄 (or any other algo) using purrr, rsample, & Henrik Bengtsson’s future

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• removeSource() no longer erroneously removes ‘NULL’ in certain cases.

Upcoming Events

• RStudio conf 2018 January 31 to February 3
  rstudio::conf is about all things R and RStudio!

• satRday Cape Town 2018 March 17
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More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

• satRday Cape Town 2018 - Call for papers

• eRum 2018 May 14-16, Budapest, Hungary - Call for papers

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Quotes of the Week

#rstats PSA: CRAN submissions will be closed from Dec 22 to Jan 3rd for well-deserved vacation of volunteers and (would be) disruptive maintenance of check farm

— Gabe Becker (@groundwalkergmb) 10 de desembre de 2017

“If the current trends continue, R will overtake SPSS to become the #1 software for scholarly data science use by the end of 2018” https://t.co/YgMCgTEHYr #Rstats pic.twitter.com/58tfhhuAeC

— Dan Quintana (@dsquintana) December 14, 2017

We are #coding our way towards an R package which downloads gridded datasets for a specified spatial and temporal extent, which datasets would you like to have easy access to? So far we have CHELSA, Bioclim, Hansen, Halpern, CRU, MODIS #EAB2017 #rstats @BritishEcolSoc pic.twitter.com/wAcFaxm53d

— Gergana Daskalova (@gndaskalova) 11 de desembre de 2017

Partner: hey is the second Bridget Jones movie available for us to stream?
Me: IDK BUT I MADE AN R PACKAGE FOR EXACTLY THIS MOMENT

cablecuttr 📦 for interfacing with the CanIStream.It API within #rstats: https://t.co/4YVkvu2uMH pic.twitter.com/XCa5DFuyPB

— Mikhail Popov (@bearloga) 12 de desembre de 2017

Couple of tools for making figures more accessible:#rstats tool to check your figures for colourblind friendliness: https://t.co/Lxi56T1TCe

The viridis #rstats package for perceptually uniform colour palettes: https://t.co/ciST4TuXtq#EAB2017 https://t.co/uoQgHdfRFL

— Mike Whitfield (@mgwhitfield) 12 de desembre de 2017