R Weekly 2020-02 tidylog, Forwards Southern Africa

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Hello and welcome to this new issue!

Release Date: 2020-01-13

This week’s release was curated by Maëlle Salmon, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.

Highlights

• tidylog, feedback for dplyr and tidyr commands

• Forwards Southern Africa Project 2020: Help us put on R workshops and meetups in Southern Africa to support the development of the local R community. (crowdfunding)

Insights

• From Shock to Competence: How Not to Panic When You Receive E-mail from CRAN about Failed Checks

• Overfitting: a guided tour

R in the Real World

• Quick Time Series Analysis of the CCI30 Cryptocurrency Index

• Twitter in collage: a year in the life of a freshman Congresswoman

• The ‘Spelling Bee Honeycomb’ puzzle: efficient computation in R

• How to use your Garmin watch to tell your team you’re going for a run

• Counting Days in Canada: Using ggmap to track time spent in Canada

Resources

• Open materials for teaching reproducible research by the psyTeachR team at the University of Glasgow School of Psychology.

New Packages

???? Go Live for More New Pkgs ????

GitHub or Bitbucket

• browse, Navigate and generate links to remote files

• ravelRy, an interface to the Ravelry API

• sessionDiffo, Compare sessionInfos in a smooth way

• tweetbotornot2, Detect Twitter Bots – Accurate AND Fast!

• slackteams, Manage and Interact with multiple Slack teams in R

• glueformula, simply build regression formulas from vectors with variable names

• podlover, Get and analyze download stats from the Wordpress podcasting add-on “Podlove Publisher”

• flashcards, Test Hebrew vocab

Updated Packages

• tidylog, feedback for dplyr and tidyr commands

• heatmaply 1.0.0 – beautiful interactive cluster heatmaps in R

• BH 1.72.0-3 on CRAN

• New vtreat Feature: Nested Model Bias Warning

R Internationally

• Données manquantes – causes, identification et imputation

• Sneak peek of {ggplot2 3.3.0} (Japanese)

Tutorials

• Building Color Palette Proofs of Concept with purrr and ggplot2

• Use {patchwork} and R Markdown for multi-image slide layouts in PowerPoint

• Exploring the Curse of Dimensionality - Part I.

• Daily Volumes, Holidays and BLS Reports

• Vignette: Podlover – A Package to Analyze Podcasting Data

• Psst, don’t tell anybody: The World is getting more rational!

• How to create Bar Race Animation Charts in R

• Working with Windows CMD system commands in R

• Complex coloring and contour levels

• Visual Testing for Graphics in R

• Exploring tidyr pivot_longer function on water chemistry data.

• Efficient iterations in R

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• {golem} live coding - 2020-01-13 21.00 Paris time

• Thinking about rstudio::conf 2020? See the full conference schedule!

• Tidyverse Dev Day, January 31

• satRday Newcastle upon Tyne, April the 4th, Call for speakers for #satRdayNCL closes 31st Jan.

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Datasets

• Aviation Data

Call for Participation

• Forwards Southern Africa Project 2020: Help us put on R workshops and meetups in Southern Africa to support the development of the local R community. (crowdfunding)

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! ????

Quotes of the Week

When CRAN opens the doors after the holidays ...

155 #rstats packages in the 'pretest' stage right now pic.twitter.com/on2A7L0im1

— Henrik Bengtsson (@henrikbengtsson) January 7, 2020

Words of wisdom from @allison_horst to her data analysis class this quarter: You don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car safely, and you don't need to be a computer scientist or developer to use R safely. #rstats #tidytuesday

— Amelia Ritger (@ameliaritger) January 7, 2020

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