R Weekly 2019-01 pagedown, reticulate, gganimate

07 Jan 2019

Highlight

• pagedown - Create Paged HTML Documents for Printing from R Markdown

• R or Python? Why not both? Using Anaconda Python within R with {reticulate}

• gganimate has transitioned to a state of release

Insights

• Your and my 2019 R goals

• Entering and Exiting 2018

• 2018 through {cranlogs}

• Here’s why 2019 is a great year to start with R - A story of 10 year old R code then and now

• R or Python? Why not both? Using Anaconda Python within R with {reticulate}

R in the Real World

• Exploring 2018 R-bloggers & R Weekly Posts with Feedly & the ‘seymour’ package

• Animating shot distances in NBA games.

• Survey Raking: An Illustration

• Are men and women tweeted equal? a corpus linguistic approach in R

• Purr yourself into a math genius

• Using R to download missing photos from JSON files after incorrect Google Takeout.

• gganimation for the nation

• 2018: Not so bad for running

• Looking into 19th century ads from a Luxembourguish newspaper with R

Resources

• An R course for marketing students

• 2018 R Views Review and Highlights

• Notebooks from the Practical AI Workshop

• In case you missed it: December 2018 roundup

• pagedown - Create Paged HTML Documents for Printing from R Markdown

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• nycgeo - New package for NYC spatial data

• RcppDynProg - table-based dynamic programming

• slga - soils data for the people

Updated Packages

• vdiffr 0.3.0 - Visual unit tests for R plots

• haven 2.0.0 - read and write various data formats used by other statistical packages

• Apache Drill 1.15.0 + sergeant 0.8.0 = pcapng Support, Proper Column Types & Mounds of New Metadata

Tutorials

• Example adding Firebase authentication to a Shiny application

• Composition & Pointfree - FP with purrr and friends

• split-apply-combine with group_map

• Displaying our “R - Quality Control Individual Range Chart Made Nice” inside a Java web App using AJAX - How To.

• Considering sensitivity to unmeasured confounding: part 1

• gganimate has transitioned to a state of release

• End of 2018 Thoughts

• x-mas tRees with gganimate, ggplot, plotly and friends

• Office for Students report on “grade inflation”

• ‘data:’ Scraping & Chart Reproduction : Arrows of Environmental Destruction

• Advances in time series forecasting – M4 and what it means for insurance

• Metamerismo estadístico

• What does it mean to write “vectorized” code in R?

• Regression Modeling Strategies

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 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

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Quotes of the Week

Back to work after the holidays and spending my time figuring out how to decompose variance visually in multilevel models. Here is a way to see the "flow" of variance. Thanks to the riverplot package in #R #Rstats #dataviz. pic.twitter.com/JM8QNG2CRj

— Matt Barstead (@MGB_Research) January 4, 2019

📊 If you spend a lot of time playing w/ ggplot2, this is quite entertaining…
"Mapping ggplot geoms and aesthetic parameters" ✍️ @yihanwu5https://t.co/joCrOMYPPZ #rstats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/YFI5EDgGOk

— Mara Averick (@dataandme) January 4, 2019