R Weekly 2018-16 Questions, Readings, Inferences

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New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

  • promises - Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming

  • pkgnet - Get Network Representation of an R Package

pkgnet

GitHub or Bitbucket

  • klrfome - Kernel Logistic Regression on Focal Mean Embeddings, for solving the distribution regresion problem

klrfome

Package Releases

Resources

Insights

Dissecting R Package "Utility Belts"

R in Organizations

R in the Real World

Storyboard of Tuberculosis Clustering analysis

Stack Overflow questions around the world

Tutorials

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

  • dput() and dump() are no longer truncating when options(deparse.max.lines = *) is set.

  • Interrupts can be suspended while evaluating an expression using suspendInterrupts. Subexpression can be evaluated with interrupts enabled using allowInterrupts. These functions can be used to make sure cleanup handlers cannon be interrupted.

  • R 3.5.0 includes a framework that allows packages to provide alternate representations of basic R objects (ALTREP). The framework is still experimental and may undergo changes in future R releases as more experience is gained. For now, documentation is provided.

  • mantelhaen.test() no longer suffers from integer overflow in largish cases, thanks to Ben Bolker’s PR#17383.

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