Highlight
- An Updated History of R ( revolutionanalytics.com )
- Why Use Docker with R? A DevOps Perspective ( opencpu.org )
- One Year as a Data Scientist at Simple ( jasdumas.github.io )
Insights
- The 501st Reminder About Reproducible Examples ( yihui.name )
- A Few Joyful Moments of A Software Developer ( yihui.name )
- An Updated History of R ( revolutionanalytics.com )
- Employer refuses to install R / RStudio ( reddit.com )
- Why Use Docker with R? A DevOps Perspective ( opencpu.org )
R in the Real World
- Continuous deployment of a Twitterbot with R & Azure Functions ( ewenme.rbind.io )
- Exploring Spotify Playlists — Analyse how different or how similar is the music that people around the world listen to. ( ccapella.github.io )
- Bioinformatics plots ( moderndata.plot.ly )
- New Zealand fatal traffic crashes ( ellisp.github.io )
- Is it faster to take a bike or taxi in NYC? ( revolutionanalytics.com )
New Packages
- preText — An R package to assess the effects of text preprocessing decisions. ( github.com )
- seurat — R toolkit for single cell genomics ( github.com )
- pecan — The Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer (PEcAn) is an integrated ecological bioinformatics toolbox. ( github.com )
Package Releases
- colourpicker 1.0 — You can now select semi-transparent colours in R ( deanattali.com )
- Bio7 2.6 — Integrated development environment for ecological modelling ( bio7.org )
Videos and Podcasts
- NSSD 47 — This is Episode 47 ( nssdeviations.com )
R in Organizations
- One Year as a Data Scientist at Simple ( jasdumas.github.io )
Tutorials
- Creating interactive SVG tables in R ( moderndata.plot.ly )
- Schedule R Code to Be Executed Periodically ( yihui.name )
- Sales Analytics: How to Use Machine Learning to Predict and Optimize Product Backorders ( business-science.io )
- Data acquisition in R (1/4) ( ikashnitsky.github.io )
- Data from Public Bicycle Hire Systems ( ropensci.org )
- Saving Snow Leopards with Artificial Intelligence ( revolutionanalytics.com )
- splitting a field by annealing ( xianblog.wordpress.com )
- Stop Using word2vec ( multithreaded.stitchfix.com )
- Database Queries With R ( rviews.rstudio.com )
- mousey methods ( maraaverick.rbind.io )
- Goodreads Part 2: rvesting descriptions ( maraaverick.rbind.io )
- County-Level Choropleth in Plotly and R ( moderndata.plot.ly )
- First steps with MRF smooths ( fromthebottomoftheheap.net )
R Project Updates
Updates from R Core: ( developer.r-project.org )
- ‘Sys.timezone(location)’ is slightly less platform dependent, notably for ‘location = FALSE’.
- Support for a system Java on macOS has been removed — install a fairly recent Oracle Java (see ‘R Installation and Administration’ §C.3.2).
- The maximum number of DLLs that can be loaded into R e.g. via ‘dyn.load()’ has been increased up to 614 when the OS limit on the number of open files allows.
- ‘R CMD javareconf’ has been updated to recognize the use of a Java 9 SDK on macOS.
Upcoming Events
- RStudio conf 2018 January 31 to February 3
rstudio::conf is about all things R and RStudio! Register & More infos ( rstudio.com ) - R/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
Applied Finance with R. More info ( rinfinance.com ) - useR! 2018 July 10, 2018
The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.
More past events at R conferences & meetups. ( conf.rweekly.org )
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