R Weekly 2017-52 Christmas, ?, Review
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Hello and welcome to this new issue!
Highlight
R in the Real World
Blue Christmas: A data-driven search for the most depressing Christmas song ?
Data Wonderland: Christmas songs from the viewpoint of a data scientist ?
ASA Police Data Challenge student visualization contest winners
Insights
Thoughts on David Donohoâs âFifty Years of Data Scienceâ
2018 R Consortium Silver member representatives for Board and ISC
R in Organizations
 R in Academia
New Packages
- swatches - Read, Inspect, and Manipulate Color Swatch Files
tfestimators - Interface to âTensorFlowâ Estimators
bcmaps - Map Layers and Spatial Utilities for British Columbia
JuniperKernel - Kernel for âJupyterâ
SpatialBall - Spatial NBA Visualization and Analysis
jekyllthat - RMarkdown to Github Jekyll md
Package Releases
fitur 0.5.20 - Fit Univariate Distributions
digest 0.6.13 - Hash function summaries for GNU R objects
drat 0.1.4 - Drat R Archive Template
R Internationally
- Brazil R Day - National Meeting of R users is an event to congregate users and developers of R in an environment for exchange of experiences, learning and contacts.
Resources
Material for STA 112FS: Data Science at Duke including an assignment with fun R packages
Docker-based Geospatial toolkit for R, built on versioned Rocker images
exams
, The open-source package exams for the R system for statistical computing provides a one-for-all approach to automatic exams generation.
Tutorials
Râś Series â Random Sampling From Apache Drill Tables With R & sergeant
Modifying an R function to iterate (using purrr) and use non-standard evaluation (using rlang)
Hypurrr-ameter Grid Search with
purrr
andfuture
and corresponding R scripts and executable binder
Gist & Cookbook
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core:
ar.yw(x)
and hence by defaultar(x)
now work whenx
hasNA
s, mostly thanks to a patch by Pavel Krivitsky in PR#17366. Thear.yw.default()
âs AIC computations have become more efficient by usingdeterminant()
.The default version for
save()
,saveRDS()
,serialize()
and similar has been changed to 3. Objects saved with version 3 are not readable by eariier versions of R.tools::resaveRdaFiles()
gains aversion
argument, for use when packages should remain compatible with earlier versions of R.write.dcf()
gets optional argumentuseBytes
.New function
packageDate()
which tries to get a valid âDateâ object from a packageDESCRIPTION
file, thanks to suggestions.
Upcoming Events
RStudio conf 2018 January 31 to February 3
rstudio::conf is about all things R and RStudio!satRday Cape Town 2018 March 17
satRday Cape Town
More past events at R conferences & meetups.
Call for Participation
satRday Cape Town 2018 - Call for papers
eRum 2018 May 14-16, Budapest, Hungary - Call for papers
Quotes of the Week
I have to say, it's so incredible to tweet out a quick question and immediately have some of the most well known #rstats users and devs pop in with tons of great advice and helpful links. I love the R community on here ?
— Ahmed Hasan (@microbialwalrus) 19 de desembre de 2017
I am always looking for reviewers for the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). If you're interested (especially if you are interested in #rstats and/or social science), please sign-up here: https://t.co/GSl78TqgZn
— Thomas Leeper (@thosjleeper) 18 de desembre de 2017
Interested in contributing to @datacarpentry #geospatial or #socialsci lessons - here's how you can contribute https://t.co/1Jufebznr4
— Data Carpentry (@datacarpentry) 19 de desembre de 2017
So, #rstats folks: Iâm now contractually obligated to write âA Field Guide for Web Scraping & Accessing APIs w/Râ for July â18. What hard topics have you encountered you'd like me to cover or topics you're curious abt you'd like me to exposit?
— hrbrgrnch (@hrbrmstr) 22 de desembre de 2017
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