R Weekly 2017–41 Raspberry Pi, Markdown

Highlight

• Convince me to start using R Markdown ( community.rstudio.com )
• Achoo — Uses a Raspberry Pi to predict if my son will need his inhaler on any given day using weather, pollen, and air quality data ( github.com )
• An Introduction to R with bookdown ( colinfay.me )

Insights

• Convince me to start using R Markdown ( community.rstudio.com )
• Switching from Base R to tidyverse ( significantdigits.org )

R in the Real World

• A Dive Into Some Global Flooding Data ( blog.cultureofinsight.com )

• 2017 New Zealand Election ( david.frigge.nz )
• A Tidy Text Analysis of Rick and Morty ( tamaszilagyi.com )
• Achoo — Uses a Raspberry Pi to predict if my son will need his inhaler on any given day using weather, pollen, and air quality data ( github.com )
• Small multiples for the German elections 2017 ( interaktiv.morgenpost.de )

• Whom does India`s Prime Minister Follow on Twitter? A Text Mining Exercise. ( medium.com )

• New Zealand 2017 election results ( ellisp.github.io )
• Retrieve & process TV News chyrons with newsflash ( rud.is )

• The music of Les Mills Body Pump, with Spotify data ( masalmon.eu )
• Mapping ecosystems of software development ( juliasilge.com )

New Packages

Go Live for More New Pkgs

• gghighlight — Highlight ggplot’s Lines and Points with Predicates ( yutani.rbind.io )

• rCAEDDATA — Data from the California Department of Education in R ( github.com )
• tfruns — Tools for TensorFlow Training Runs ( tensorflow.rstudio.com )
• xgboostExplainer — An R package that makes xgboost models fully interpretable ( github.com )
• remedy — Addins to facilitate writing in markdown with RStudio. ( github.com )

Package Releases

• tidystringdist 0.1.0 — String Distance Calculation with Tidy Data Principles ( cran.r-project.org )
• confinterpret 1.0 — Descriptive interpretations from confidence intervals with confinterpret. ( cran.r-project.org )
• RProtoBuf 0.4.11 — R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com )
• nzelect 0.4.0 — results from 2002 to 2014 and polls up to September 2017 ( ellisp.github.io )

R Internationally

• Text mining et topic modeling avec R ( thinkr.fr )

Videos and Podcasts

• NSSD 46 — Uncanny Valley of Stickerness — Hilary and Roger continue their late night contemplations about stickers, collecting new data for training machine learning algorithms, and paying for open (and closed) source software. ( nssdeviations.com )

R in Organizations

• An introduction post for 0.1.0 of googleLanguageR, that lets you analyse language through the Google Cloud Machine Learning APIs ( ropensci.org )
• R-Ladies global tour ( masalmon.eu )
• Help us build capacity of open software users and developers with Hacktoberfest ( ropensci.org )
• Governance, Engagement, and Resistance in the Open Science Movement: A Comparative Study ( ropensci.org )

Resources

• An Introduction to R with bookdown ( colinfay.me )

Tutorials

• getSymbols and Alpha Vantage ( fosstrading.com )
• WordR — A New R Package for Rendering Documents in MS Word Format ( rviews.rstudio.com )
• Identify & Analyze Web Site Tech Stacks With rappalyzer ( rud.is )
• Creating an expository graph for a talk ( simplystatistics.org )
• ggplot2 SEM models with tidygraph and ggraph ( drsimonj.svbtle.com )
• The Guardian Experience: heavy or light topics? ( masalmon.eu )
• A Gentle Introduction on Market Basket Analysis — Association Rules ( datascienceplus.com )
• Oh How I Have Failed Thee, Jupyter Notebooks… ( ouseful.info )
• Comparing assault death rates in the US to other advanced democracies ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• Querying Zenodo.org repository with R ( behrica.github.io )
• EPL Week 7 ( mytinyshinys.com )
• Create Powerpoint presentations from R with the OfficeR package ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• Bayesian vs. Frequentist Statements About Treatment Efficacy ( fharrell.com )
• Time Series Analysis in R Part 3: Getting Data from Quandl ( datascienceplus.com )
• Introducing the Deep Learning Virtual Machine on Azure ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• WordR — A New R Package for Rendering Documents in MS Word Format ( rviews.rstudio.com )

• In case you missed it: September 2017 roundup ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• ARIMA models and Intervention Analysis ( datascienceplus.com )
• A cRossword about R ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• Because it’s Friday: Death Risk ( revolutionanalytics.com )
• Stan Biweekly Roundup, 6 October 2017 ( andrewgelman.com )
• Using chat emotes as signals for content themes ( twitch.tv )

R Project Updates

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

• intToUtf8(multiple = FALSE) gains an argument to allow surrogate pairs to be interpreted.
• isTRUE() is more tolerant and now true in
• x <- rlnorm(99) isTRUE(median(x) == quantile(x)[“50%”])
• New function isFALSE() defined analogously to isTRUE().
• Fix calling of methods on S4 generics that dispatch on ... when the call contains ....
• intToUtf8() converts integers corresponding to surrogate code points to NA rather than invalid UTF-8.
• aspell() gains a filter for Markdown (.md and .Rmd) files.

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