R Weekly 2017–37 Social Science, Time, Compare

Highlight

• Data Visualization for Social Science — A practical introduction with R and ggplot2
• It’s tibbletime: Time-Aware Tibbles
• Thou shalt not compare numeric values (except when it works)

Insights

• R Markdown for documents with logos, watermarks, and corporate styles

• Thou shalt not compare numeric values (except when it works)
• The summer of ggplot2 — wooooo!
• 👩‍💻🚙👯: My googledrive internship
• Writing and Publishing my first R package

R in the Real World

• Finding the pattern of food

• Getting a Window into your Black Box Model
• genderBR — Predict gender from Brazilian first names
• The search ‘for’ w’if’i
• Flawed code served as icing on the cake for Prime Minister’s social agency launch
• Animated Maps in R with SF and gganimate

• Simple Binary Data Visualization
• Analyzing Google Trends Data in R

• Unravelling the European Football Transfer Window

R in Academia

• Journal of Statistical Software Vol 80

R Internationally

• Premiers pas en Machine Learning avec R. Volume 4 : random forest

R in Organizations

• rOpenSci OzUnconference coming to Melbourne
• Experiences as a first time rOpenSci package reviewer

Resources

• New RStudio Cheat Sheets

• rworkshops — Materials for R Workshops
• Data Visualization for Social Science — A practical introduction with R and ggplot2

New Packages

• remedy — RStudio Addins to Simplify Markdown Writing

• tibbletime — It’s tibbletime: Time-Aware Tibbles
• writexl — zero dependency xlsx writer for R
• googledrive — googledrive allows you to interact with files on Google Drive from R.
• mschart — 📊 mschart: office charts from R

Package Releases

• Spelling 1.0 — quick and effective spell checking in R
• tidyr 0.7.0 — Erratum tidyr 0.7.0
• RStudio Connect v1.5.6 — Now Supporting Kerberos!

Tutorials

• Readability Redux
• Pair Programming Statistical Analyses
• Permutation Theory In Action
• alphavantager: An R interface to the Free Alpha Vantage Financial Data API
• It is Needlessly Difficult to Count Rows Using dplyr
• Deep Dive — Y. Ogata’s Residual Analysis for Point Processes
• Migrating from GitHub to GitLab with RStudio (Tutorial)
• cdparcoord: Parallel Coordinates Plots for Categorical Data
• Leverage Up When You’re Down?
• Preview of EARL London 2017
• Keras for R
• Geospatial Queries — R and MongoDB

• Data Science for Fraud Detection
• The Ultimate Guide To Partitioning Clustering
• Knime 3.4 connections to Microsoft R, Azure
• Text Message Classification
• Some thoughts about Bayesian Kriging in INLA
• RStudio 1.1 Preview — New Features in RStudio Server Pro
• The writexl package: zero dependency xlsx writer for R
• Combined Linear Congruential Generators with R
• In case you missed it: August 2017 roundup
• Naive Principal Component Analysis (using R)
• Infographic-style charts using the R waffle package

• Hurricane Harvey’s rains, visualized in R by USGS
• Time Dependent Classification
• Because it’s Friday: Can’t find the one
• Remember: p-values Are Not Effect Sizes
• R Markdown for documents with logos, watermarks, and corporate styles
• Getting Rid of the .DS_Store Crap

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• The X11 device no longer uses the Xlib backing store (PR#16497).

Upcoming Events

• RStudio conf 2018 January 31 to February 3
  rstudio::conf is about all things R and RStudio! Register & More infos
• R/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
  Applied Finance with R. More info
• useR! 2018 July 10, 2018
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.

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