R Weekly 2019-30 SatRDay Paris, Top 40 Packages, golem

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Hello and welcome to this new issue!

This week’s release was curated by Eric Nantz, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Release Date: 2019-07-29

Highlight

• SatRDay Paris 2019 videos

• June 2019 “Top 40” R Packages

• Shiny Developer Series screencast: Hands-on with golem - In this screencast, Colin Fay demonstrates how to create a new Shiny application from scratch with {golem}!

Insights

• BeautifulSoup vs. Rvest

• The data deluge means no reasonable expectation of privacy - now what?

• useR!2019 Quiz: Test your knowledge of base R and ThinkR

R in the Real World

• Machine learning models grow more powerful every week, but they all share the exact same dependency: data quality. Here are some data verification tips, tricks, and case studies.

R in Organizations

• A new, straightforward, and solid way to run R on AWS Lambda

• Using environment variables and parametrized builds for automating R applications with Jenkins

R in Academia

• CPAT and the Rényi-Type Statistic; End-of-Sample Change Point Detection in R

• “Real life” DAG simulation using the simMixedDAG package

Resources

• June 2019 “Top 40” R Packages

New Packages

? Go Live for More New Pkgs ?

CRAN

• graph4lg - Build Graphs for Landscape Genetics Analysis

• gitlink - Add ‘Git’ Links to Your Web Based Assets

• tidymargins - Tidy Marginal Functions

• cvGEE - Cross-Validated Predictions from GEE

• imgpalr - Create Color Palettes from Images

• trustedtimestamping - Create Trusted Timestamps of Datasets and Files

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Introducing the exhibitionist package for annotating sequences

• ymlthis - write YAML for R Markdown, bookdown, blogdown, and more

Updated Packages

• Two New Testing-themed Addins + One New and One Updated CRAN Package

• RPushbullet 0.3.2

• Rcpp 1.0.2: Small Polish

Videos and Podcasts

• Shiny Developer Series screencast: Hands-on with golem - In this screencast, Colin Fay demonstrates how to create a new Shiny application from scratch with {golem}!

• SatRDay Paris 2019 videos

• NSSD 85: Old/old - Roger welcomes special guest Jenna Krall to discuss cricket, data analysis project organization, and the difficulties in creating a dataset.

Gist & Cookbook

• Collapsible code output for xaringan

Tutorials

• Can {drake} RAP?

• Many similar models - Part 2: Automate model fitting with purrr::map() loops

• Generate custom Excel workbooks from Shiny

• A metaanalysis of truthtelling experiments with some nice Shiny apps

• Talk at Wits – 18/7/2019

• Faster Gridding in R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Mexico CDSB Workshop 2019, July 29 - August 2 - How to Build and Create Tidy Tools

• R/Pharma Conference 2019, August 21 - 23

• R/Medicine 2019, September 12 - 14

• LatinR 2019, Santiago de Chile, September 25 - 27 - Latinamerican Conference About the Use of R in R&D

• 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

• lyft level 5 autonomous vehicles data set

• eia - API Wrapper for ‘US Energy Information Administration’ Open Data

Call for Participation

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! ?

Quotes of the Week

@rstudio internship update ? Linear Models! ? My #Tidyverse inspired blocks based coding language can import CSVs, transform data with #dplyr verbs, and now graph + stats! ? [Using @ashleydavis75's #dataforge, @vega_vis, and my own #JavaScript magic ?] pic.twitter.com/dia4gnKMNf

— Maya Gans (@Mayacelium) July 23, 2019

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