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R Weekly 2017 Issue 6 |
Weekly News in the R Community. |
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Taking steps (in XML) - Let’s use R to analyse data from the iOS Health app.
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Open Data R Meetup: exploring the Distribution of Traffic Accidents in Belgrade, 2015 in R
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The Rt of naming your blog - An analysis about R-bloggers
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Developers without Borders: The Global Stack Overflow Network
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Playing with 80 Million Amazon Product Review Ratings using Apache Spark
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Mapping unemployment data, 2016 - With unemployment data in US
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Recreating RView’s ”Reproducible Finance With R: Sector Correlations”
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Where Do Z-Score Tables Come From? (+ how to make them in R)
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The “Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research” are easy to reach for R users
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ShinyTester - A package that helps you build Shiny apps
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nazihuntR - tools to explore the Institute of National Remembrance Nazis of Auschwitz data
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maltese - Little R utility package for making time series data more machine learning-friendly
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newsflash - Tools to Work with the Internet Archive and GDELT Television Explorer in R
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provisionr - 📦📦➡️🏛 Provision a library of R packages
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tidyxl 0.2.1 for importing messy spreadsheets, including cell formatting.
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unpivotr 0.1.0 for unpivoting complex tables with multi-level headers, especially pivot tables.
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roxygen2 6.0.0 - roxygen2 helps you document your packages by turning specially formatted inline comments into R’s standard Rd format.
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nzpullover 0.0.2 - road policing data from New Zealand.
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RPushbullet 0.3.0 - RPushbullet interfacing the neat Pushbullet service for inter-device messaging, communication, and more.
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gunsales 0.1.2 - Statistical analysis of monthly background checks of gun purchases
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nanotime 0.1.1 - Nanosecond-Resolution Time for R
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RcppCCTZ 0.2.1 - Rcpp bindings for the CCTZ library
Updates from R Core:
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Improved performance and robustness of matrix multiplication using BLAS: DGEMV is now used instead of DGEMM for matrix/vector and vector/matrix multiplication, DGEMM/DGEMV is bypassed when the input has NaN or Inf values, and performance for these input checks has been improved.
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qbeta()
underflowed too early in some very asymmetric cases. (PR#17178) -
tapply()
gets new optiondefault = NA
allowing to change the previously hardcoded value. -
R CMD build
no longer wraps aBugReports
field containing a long URL, which made it unusable in R <= 3.3.2. -
read.dcf()
now consistently interprets anywhitespace
to be stripped to include newlines. -
str()
no longer shows"list output truncated"
, in cases that list was not shown at all. Thanks to Neal Fultz (PR#17219)
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SatRday #2 Conference - Cape Town, South Africa 18 Feb, 2017
The R community and some of South Africa's most forward thinking companies have come together to bring satRday to Cape Town. -
useR! 2017 July 4, 2017
The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.
For those #rstats folk planning their 2017 calendars around R releases: https://t.co/O0t4eIyZhR pic.twitter.com/8ib2UFFGnZ
— boB Rudis (@hrbrmstr) February 1, 2017