R Weekly 2018-16 Questions, Readings, Inferences
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Hello and welcome to this new issue!
Highlight
Statistical Inference: A Tidy Approach - Slides for short course at the New England Statistical Symposium.
New Packages
CRAN
promises - Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming
pkgnet - Get Network Representation of an R Package
GitHub or Bitbucket
- klrfome - Kernel Logistic Regression on Focal Mean Embeddings, for solving the distribution regresion problem
Package Releases
future 1.8.0 - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone
tint 0.1.0 - Styles provided by the tufte package.
CRANalerts: Get email alerts when a CRAN package gets updated
Resources
Turning your PhD (or other research project) into an R package
The Little Book of LDA - An Overview of Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Statistical Inference: A Tidy Approach - Slides for short course at the New England Statistical Symposium.
R-ecology-lesson - Data Carpentry R lessons on ecology.
Insights
R in Organizations
R in the Real World
Web scraping from Wikipedia with rvest and topic modelling with LDA
My first Shiny app, scaling ingredients for buttermilk pancakes
Tutorials
A short tutorial on how to create interactive maps with popup images using leaflet.
How to use dplyr’s mutate in R without a vectorized function
Get basic summary statistics for all the variables in a data frame
Weighted survey data with Power BI compared to dplyr, SQL or survey
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core:
dput()
anddump()
are no longer truncating whenoptions(deparse.max.lines = *)
is set.Interrupts can be suspended while evaluating an expression using
suspendInterrupts
. Subexpression can be evaluated with interrupts enabled usingallowInterrupts
. 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.
Upcoming Events in 3 Months
Events in 3 Months:
New York R conference Aprl 20-21
New York R conference, Discount Code : rladieseRum 2018 May 14-16
European R Users Meeting @ Budapest, HungaryR/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
Applied Finance with R.CascadiaRConf June 2 Portland, OR, US
7eme Rencontres R July 5 & 6
Rennes - AgrocampususeR! 2018 July 10
The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.
More past events at R conferences & meetups.
Call for Participation
- CarpentryCon - May 30 - June 1 at University College Dublin. Conference about how to teach and communicate ideas effectively.
Quotes of the Week
Today in #rstats things I should have figured out sooner: automatic text wrapping in the @rstudio script editor is a thing! For all your obnoxiously long comment reminders to yourself... pic.twitter.com/FX8tm9zGRr
— Angela Li (@CivicAngela) April 10, 2018
Today in #rstats things I should have figured out sooner: automatic text wrapping in the @rstudio script editor is a thing! For all your obnoxiously long comment reminders to yourself... pic.twitter.com/FX8tm9zGRr
— Angela Li (@CivicAngela) April 10, 2018
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