R Weekly 2017–40 Release Name, Equation, Map

Highlight

• R release names — explaining each release name ( livefreeordichotomize.com )
• Convert hand-drawn equations to LaTeX with the mathpix package ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• mapsapi — ‘sf’-Compatible Interface to ‘Google Maps’ APIs ( cran.r-project.org )
• August 2017 New Package Picks ( rviews.rstudio.com )

R in the Real World

• SODD — StackOverflow Driven-Development ( rud.is )
• Marketing Multi-Channel Attribution model based on Sales Funnel with R ( analyzecore.com )

• CACE closed: EM opens up exclusion restriction (among other things) ( rdatagen.net )
• What is the appropriate population scaling of the Affordable Care Act Funding? ( yonicd.github.io )

• Twitter with 280 character limit ( reddit.com )

Insights

• For the Love of Statistics: A Conversation with Hadley Wickham ( coursera.org )
• R release names — explaining each release name ( livefreeordichotomize.com )

New Packages

Go Live for More New Pkgs

• huskydown — An R Markdown template using the bookdown package for preparing a PhD thesis at the University of Washington ( github.com )

• mapsapi — ‘sf’-Compatible Interface to ‘Google Maps’ APIs ( cran.r-project.org )
• ciTools — An R Package for Quick Uncertainty Intervals ( github.com )

Package Releases

• DescriptiveStats.OBeu 1.2.1 — Εstimate and return the necessary parameters for descriptive statistics visualizations ( rpubs.com )
• cartography 1.4.2 — Thematic Cartography ( rgeomatic.hypotheses.org )

• RcppZiggurat 0.1.4 — Ziggurat Normal RNGs ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com )
• RcppAnnoy 0.0.10 — Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com )
• proustr 0.2.0 — Natural Language Processing in French ( colinfay.me )
• Rcpp 0.12.13 — Updated vignettes, and more ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com )
• August 2017 New Package Picks ( rviews.rstudio.com )

R in Organizations

• Meet the new Microsoft R Server: Microsoft ML Server 9.2 ( revolutionanalytics.com )

Resources

• R-Ladies Crossword Puzzle Challenge ( github.com )

Tutorials

• Convert hand-drawn equations to LaTeX with the mathpix package ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• Performance Benchmarking for Dummy Variable Creation ( rsangole.netlify.com )
• Speeding Up Digital Arachnids ( rud.is )
• Time Series Analysis in R Part 2: Time Series Transformations ( datascienceplus.com )
• Introducing Microsoft Machine Learning Server 9.2 Release ( blogs.technet.microsoft.com )
• Custom Level Coding in vtreat ( win-vector.com )
• Survival Analysis with R ( rviews.rstudio.com )
• News Roundup from Microsoft Ignite ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• Building A Book Recommender System — The Basics, kNN and Matrix Factorization ( datascienceplus.com )
• Microsoft Cognitive Services Vision API in R ( stoltzmaniac.com )
• rrricanes to Access Tropical Cyclone Data ( ropensci.org )
• Oneway ANOVA Explanation and Example in R; Part 1 ( datascienceplus.com )
• Featurizing images: the shallow end of deep learning ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• Streamgraphs: Economic trade flows with R ( austinwehrwein.com )

• Blockchain & distributed ML — my report from the data2day conference ( shiring.github.io )
• Oneway ANOVA Explanation and Example in R; Part 2 ( datascienceplus.com )
• R 3.4.2 is released ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• Partial Pooling for Lower Variance Variable Encoding ( win-vector.com )
• Multicollinearity in R ( datascienceplus.com )
• bupaR: Business Process Analysis with R ( businessinformatics.be )
• Because it’s Friday: Big Little Songs ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• The Kelly Criterion — Does It Work? ( quantstrattrader.wordpress.com )

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core: ( developer.r-project.org )

• glm() and glm.fit get the same singular.ok=TRUE argument that lm() has had forever.
• raw(0) & raw(0) now returns raw again; ditto for |.
• A workaround has been added for the change in location of time-zone files on macOS 10.13 High Sierra, so the default time zone is deduced correctly from the system setting when R is configured with --with-internal-tzcode (the default on macOS).
• Writing R Extensions documents macros MAYBE_REFERENCED, MAYBE_SHARED and MARK_NOT_MUTABLE that should be used by package C code instead NAMED or SET_NAMED.
• The object header layout has been changed to support merging the ALTREP branch. This requires re-installing packages that use compiled code.

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