Issue 4

20 Jun 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• America’s Public Bible - Biblical Quotations in U.S. Newspapers.

• Improving Season on Season - engsoccerdata contains complete historical soccer results of major European leagues. How many teams have had runs of six seasons or more of successively improving their league position?

• Using Statcast Data to Predict Hits - Model/predict batted ball outcomes with Statcast data.

R Community Updates

News & Blog Posts

Tutorials

• Linear model with time series random component - 2015 post

• Handling missing data with MICE package; a simple approach

• Docker - a Lovestory

• Connecting R with Amazon Redshift - 2015 post

• Radar charts in R using Plotly

• R Hero saves Backup City with archivist and GitHub

• Intro to The data.table Package

• Reading and combining many tidy data files in R

• Common R Programming Errors Faced by Beginners

• Hyperparameter Optimization in H2O: Grid Search, Random Search and the Future

R in the Real World

• America’s Public Bible - Biblical Quotations in U.S. Newspapers.

• Gender ratios of programmers, by language

• Improving Season on Season - engsoccerdata contains complete historical soccer results of major European leagues. How many teams have had runs of six seasons or more of successively improving their league position?

• The R Packages of UseR! 2016

• Visualizing obesity across United States by using data from Wikipedia

• Your data vis “Spidey-sense” & the need for a robust “utility belt”

• Mapping US Counties in R with FIPS

• Set up a twitter filter stream before a conference to properly check out the zeitgeist!

• Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates

• Euro 2016 Squads

• Monthly patterns in Scottish snow (1946-2006)

• Living longer is the new norm

• How to Cut Your Planks with R

• Germany most likely to win Euro 2016

• On Whether Y-axis Labels Are Always Necessary

• Exploring Spatial Patterns and Coexistance

• Using Statcast Data to Predict Hits - Model/predict batted ball outcomes with Statcast data.

R in Organization

• Renjin June 2016 newsletter

R in Academia

• Flexible expressed region analysis for RNA-seq with derfinder

Videos & Podcasts

• R, Reporting Services and some notifications for Power BI - Roundup #49

Resources

• MOOC - Master Statistics with R from Duke - June 20

• Eric Zivot’s notes for time series handling in R

• Beamer’s template to Write in English and Chinese

• Learn R online – A detailed list of online courses on R

New Releases

• tidyr 0.5.0 - Easily Tidy Data with spread() and gather() Functions.

• jsonlite 0.9.22 - Distinguish between double and integer.

New Packages & Tools

• geojsonlint - Tools for Validating GeoJSON.

• githubinstall - a more helpful way to install or query R packages hosted on GitHub.

• lazyrmd - make the R Markdown-generated html faster by lazily loading htmlwidgets plots.

• xda - Introducing xda: R package for exploratory data analysis.

• listviewer - R htmlwidget to view lists.

• assertr - Assertive programming for R analysis pipelines.

• SnakeCharmR - A modern #rstats package that allows you to call Python code from R .

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• sessionInfo() has been updated for Apple’s change in OS naming as from 10.12 (macOS Sierra).

• toLatex() method now includes the running component.

• as<-() avoids an infinite loop when a virtual class is interposed between a subclass and an actual superclass.

• Fix level propagation in unlist() when the list contains zero-length lists or factors.

• Fix S3 dispatch on S4 objects when the methods package is not attached.

• Internal S4 dispatch sets .Generic in the method frame for consistency with standardGeneric() (PR#16929).

• Fix order(x, decreasing=TRUE) when x is an integer vector containing MAX_INT. Ported from a fix Matt Dowle made to ‘data.table’.

Call for Participation

Upcoming Events

• 2016 useR! Stanford - The R User Conference 2016
  June 27 - June 30
  
  • Video Stream
  • Schedule
  • Twitter #user2016

Jobs

• 8 new R jobs from all over the world (2016-06-13)

Quote of the Week

Twitter @ Urban Demographics

Unintentionally creating abstract art in #rstats #ggplot2 If I fail my PhD, I’ll try to sell my plots to an art gal.