Issue 21

17 Oct 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• Interview with RStudio Founder J.J. Allaire

• Plotly R Cheat Sheet

News & Blog Posts

Tutorials

• Moving data between R and Excel via the clipboard

• Find Me a Venture Capitalist - This tutorial demonstrates how fundManageR can be used to explore venture capital firms.

• reproducible logo generated by ggtree

• Make tilegrams in R with tilegramsR

• Eight (not 10) things an R user will find frustrating when trying to learn Python

• Tutorial: Scalable R on Spark with SparkR, sparklyr and RevoScaleR

• 3 Reasons to Learn Caret

• Movies and Series subtitles in R with subtools

• Make ggplot graphics2 interactive with ggiraph

• Mapping (historic) tracks in ggplot2

• Streamline your analyses linking R to SAS: the workfloweR experiment

• R’s Testing Predicament

• Cartograms with R

• Getting data into R

R in the Real World

• Map-making with R and electionsBR

• See rivers respond to Hurricane Matthew along the eastern seaboard

• Global Temp: Geo-Spatial Records over Time

• Seinfeld streak at GitHub: Round Three

• Understanding empirical Bayesian hierarchical modeling (using baseball statistics)

• Performance comparison between kmeans and RevoScaleR rxKmeans

• Watch the world warm with this animated globe, created with R

• Map of Middle Earth in R

• Data Scientist with a Wine hobby (Part II)

R in Organization

• Fixing R Documentation

• EARL Boston Full Agenda Released

• The schedule is out – rstudio:conf 2017

• Interview with RStudio Founder J.J. Allaire

• Trend Report I: White after labor day

R in Academia

• BarcodingR: an integrated R package for species identification using DNA barcodes

• skeleSim: an extensible, general framework for population genetic simulation in R

Video and Podcast

• NSSD 24 : 50 Minutes of Blathering - Topics covered include RStudio Conf, polling, millennials, Karl Broman, and more!

Resources

• Presentations from eRum 2016

• Most Active Data Scientists, Free Books, Notebooks & Tutorials on Github

• Plotly R Cheat Sheet

New Releases

• pqR-2016-10-05 - One major change with this version is that pqR, which was based on R-2.15.0, is now compatible with R-2.15.1.

• Shiny Server (Pro) 1.4.7 - This release includes new features to support Shiny 0.14. It also updates our Node.js to 0.10.47, which includes important security fixes for SSL/TLS.

• shinythemes 1.1.1 - Easily alter the overall appearance of your Shiny application using the shinythemes package.

• bayesAB 0.7.0 - Package for Bayesian AB Testing.

• corrr 0.2.1 - exploring correlations in a tidy R framework.

• ggseas 0.5.1 - Update of ggseas for seasonal decomposition on the fly

• anytime 0.0.3 - Bugfix, new feature - converts just about any input to Date or Datetime

New Packages & Tools

• bindr - Parametrized active bindings.

• pattern.nlp - Sentiment analysis and Parts of Speech tagging in Dutch/French/English/German/Spanish/Italian.

• blscrapeR - Use R to Calculate Inflation with the blscrapeR Package.

• mapmate - An R package for map animation.

• yarrr - This package contains data, functions, and other random files for the e-book YaRrr!

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• Subsetting very large matrices (prod(dim(.)) >= 2^31) now works thanks to Michael Schubmehl’s PR#17158.

• bartlett.test() used residual sums of squares instead of variances, when argument was a list of lm objects. (Reported by Jens Ledet Jensen).

• plot(<lm>, which = *) now correctly labels the contour lines for the standardized residuals for which = 6. It also takes the correct p in case of singularities (also for which = 5). (PR#17161)

• bartlett.test() used residual sums of squares instead of variances, when the argument was a list of lm objects. (Reported by Jens Ledet Jensen).

• Headers for Unix-only facilities R_ext/GetX11Image.h, R_ext/QuartzDevice.h and R_ext/eventloop.h are no longer installed on Windows.

Upcoming Events

• rstudio::conf 2017 January 13 and 14, 2017
  The conference about all things R and RStudio.
  

Quote of the Week

Results if the election were between Python and Java users, based on @StackOverflow traffic#rstats @FiveThirtyEight pic.twitter.com/0tmUnKhFed

— David Robinson (@drob)

Where in the world are #rstats users? Stack Overflow traffic can tell us: plot of what cities have most/least R traffic pic.twitter.com/9Cdrhs3zXh

— David Robinson (@drob)