R Weekly 2019-03 RStudio Conf 2019

21 Jan 2019

Release Date: 2019-01-21

Highlight

• RStudio Conf 2019 Slides - Karl Broman
  • Contains workshop materials and presentation slides for RStudio Conf

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Public Work

• Our Colour of Magic: The open sourcery of fantastic R packages

Insights

• You did a sentiment analysis with tidytext but you forgot to do dependency parsing to answer WHY is something positive/negative

• The Tentpoles of Data Science

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Public Work

• A guide to making your data analysis more reproducible

• Our Colour of Magic: The open sourcery of fantastic R packages

• Visualizing uncertainty with hypothetical outcome plots (HOPs)

• it depends: a dialog about dependencies

• FEELING THE RSTUDIO::CONF ❤️

R in the Real World

• Some perspectives on Xochitl Torres Small’s win in CD NM-02

• 🖊 R Coding Style Guide

• Calibrating soccer odds using the caret package

• Text network analysis of Twitter data on the day of the Colombian peace agreement referendum (plebiscito).

• Generate satellite imagery in R

• Exploring the hidden beauty of multiplication tables with R

• Using R to Analyze Economic and Housing Market Trends

• An Introduction to Docker for R Users

R in Organizations

• Push straight to prod: API development with R and Tensorflow at T-Mobile

• Empowering a data team with RStudio addins

• Data science as a team sport

• Cultivating creativity in data work

• Putting empathy in action: Building a `community of practice’ for analytics in a global corporation

• Building an A/B Testing Analytics system with R and Shiny!

R in Academia

• Teaching data science with puzzles

• Introductory statistics with R: Easing the transition to software for beginner students

• Teaching R using inclusive pedagogy: Practices and lessons learned from over 700 Carpentries workshops

• The next million R users

Resources

• RStudio Conf 2019 Slides - Karl Broman
  • Contains workshop materials and presentation slides for RStudio Conf

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• testextra

• foto

• ggdark

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Sydney xaringan theme: A new theme for xaringan

• itdepends: Weigh a package based on it’s number of dependencies, time to install and other factors.

• pkg: previously pkgman

• https://github.com/samhforbes/PupillometryR An R package for preparing and analysing pupillometry data

Updated Packages

• future.apply 1.1.0 - Apply Function to Elements in Parallel using Futures

• forecast

• openssl

• diffobj

• memor

• kableExtra

• pdftools

• particles

• rcrossref

• colorspace

• data.table

• babynames

Tutorials

• it’s not the maths, it’s the code - how testing has changed my workflow

• Walkthrough on how to query and visualise OpenStreetMap data on interactive historical maps using osmdata, tidyverse packages and Leaflet.

• Which planet is closest to Earth?

• Create R Markdown reports and presentations even better with these 3 practical tips

• Going Off the Map: Exploring purrr’s Other Functions

• Box plots: a case study in debugging and perseverance

• Working with Categorical Data in R without Losing your Mind

• Effective use of Shiny modules

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• satRday Paris - 23rd February

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Boston UseR Meetup

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Jobs

• MetaLab - Stanford University

Call for Participation

• Announcing the 1st Shiny Contest

• Women’s Package Development Workshop - by R-Ladies Chicago and Forwards: Curious about package development, but not sure where to start? This workshop is for you! Run by R-Ladies Chicago, the goal of this workshop is to empower you to start contributing back to the R ecosystem with package development. Applications are now open! Deadline: 1/15/19 for out-of-town attendees, 2/2/19 for Chicago-based attendees.

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

Haven't seen this @rstudio mission before:

Equip everyone, regardless of means, to participate in a global economy that rewards data literacy.@cdhowe talking about this big goal. #rstudioconf pic.twitter.com/7QkqQQWYrP

— Amelia McNamara (@AmeliaMN) January 18, 2019

.@rstudio president @tareefk waxing poetic about open source, reproducibility, and the Prime Directive. #RStudioConf pic.twitter.com/oiRIQiajwq

— Brooke Watson (@brookLYNevery1) January 17, 2019