R Weekly 2018-22 ggplot2, eRum, Unconf 2018

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Hello and welcome to this new issue!

Highlight

• April 2018: “Top 40” New Packages

• ggplot2 2.3.0 — upcoming release

New Packages

? Go Live for More New Pkgs ?

CRAN

• vcr: record and replay HTTP requests

• April 2018: “Top 40” New Packages

GitHub or Bitbucket

• altair - R interface to ‘Altair’

Insights

• ggplot2 2.3.0 — upcoming release

• Reflections on the ROpenSci Unconference

• My eRum 2018 biggest highlights

• taxize: seven years of taxonomy in R

• Context Compatibility in Data Analysis

• Calculating New/Returning Students with Factors and dplyr

• R/exams @ eRum 2018

R in the Real World

• An Analysis of Texas High School Academic Competition Results, Part 1 - Introduction

• Animate your Strava activities in R using rStrava and gganimate

Package Releases

• Rcpp 0.12.17: More small updates

• RcppGSL 0.3.5

Resources

• AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: May 2018

Tutorials

• Draw colored pencil maps with R.

• Create Code Metrics with cloc

• Video: speeding up R with parallel programming in the cloud

• This guide has basic to advanced levels of charts & graphs useful to display the data using R Programming.

• Circluar plots in R and adding images.

• How to use an R interface with Airtable API

• A little function to help generate ICCs in simple clustered data

• Learning R vs Learning a Spoken Language

• sample_n_of(): a useful helper function

• How Many Factors to Retain in Factor Analysis

• Finalfit, knitr and R Markdown for quick results

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• R/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
  Applied Finance with R.

• CascadiaRConf June 2 Portland, OR, US

• 7eme Rencontres R July 5 & 6
  Rennes - Agrocampus

• useR! 2018 July 10
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.

More upcoming events the week of May 21 at community.rstudio.com.

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

ggplot2 2.3.0 is scheduled to be submitted to CRAN on June 25 ????. Please try out the dev version and let us know if you have any problems! https://t.co/dlHSYdp9mp #rstats

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) May 21, 2018

late night #plotswithchristine: my "strip plot" aka "barcode plot" #dataviz of Hogwarts House mentions, now with all 7 #harrypotter books! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ fun fact: Slytherin&Hufflepuff mentioned first, thx to Draco Malfoy (quote in reply)

data & code here https://t.co/8McFfXGca8 pic.twitter.com/hYtFd2Q71Q

— Christine Zhang (@christinezhang) May 26, 2018

Are you even making figures in #rstats if you don't have >10 browser tabs open with google results for various "how to do this", "how to change that" questions? The real secret to mastering R = Google everything. Someone likely already thought of it before you did #phdchat

— Jaimi Gray (@jaimiAgray) May 24, 2018

Somebody should come up with an R function 'lenght' that does the same as 'length'. Urgently. #rstats #coder

— Frederik De Laender (@frederikDL) May 23, 2018

Thank you to all#runconf18 #rstats pic.twitter.com/GSWpo3vwrf

— Mauro Lepore (@mauro_lepore) May 23, 2018

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