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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/spotlights-october-2016.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>As we prepare for the upcoming release of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/open/">Microsoft R Open</a>, I've been preparing the list of new and updated packages for the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/spotlight/">spotlights page</a>. This involves scanning the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/about/">CRANberries feed</a> (with gracious thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel) for newly-released packages and significant updates to existing ones.</p>
<p>This is a <strong>lot</strong> of data to process. For context, in October 2016 alone there were 174 new packages and 629 updated packages. For the 4 months since the last MRO release, I reviewed all of the new packages and some of the updates (those with a 1.0 or 2.0 release) by hand, and selected those that are likely to be of interest to a broad segment of R users. I hope you find some useful nuggets in the list. It's likely I missed some good ones; if you know of any others that should have been included, let me know in the comments.</p>
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<h2>Notable New and Updated R Packages: July — October 2016</h2>
<h3><strong>Data Munging</strong></h3>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/anytime/">anytime</a>: Convert anything that looks vaguely like a date into a POSIXct object. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/anytime.html">Examples here</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/fasttime/">fasttime</a>: Fast functions for timestamp manipulation.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/forcats/">forcats</a>: Tools for working with categorical variables (factors).</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/roll/">roll</a>: Parallel functions for computing rolling statistics of time-series data.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/stringb/">stringb</a>: String handling functions with an interface like stringr/stringi, but without the dependencies.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/tidyverse/">tidyverse</a>: A collection of popular packages for data munging from Hadley Wickham. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.rstudio.org/2016/09/15/tidyverse-1-0-0/">More here</a>.</p>
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<h3><strong>Data Sources</strong></h3>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/countyweather/">countyweather</a>: Meterological time series data for U.S. counties, from NOAA.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/darksky/">darksky</a>: Interface to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://darksky.net/dev/docs">Dark Sky API</a>, which provides current or historical global weather conditions.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/energyr/">energyr</a>: Data published by the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/genderNames/">genderNames</a>: API client for genderize.io which will tell you the gender of the name you input.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/Rlinkedin/">Rlinkedin</a> (updated): Provides access to the LinkedIn API for people, job, and discussion data.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/outbreaks/">outbreaks</a>: A collection of disease outbreak data, some real, some simulated.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/rnoaa/">rnoaa</a>: Download NOAA weather data. Vignettes provided for many different data types.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/rpinterest/">rpinterest</a>: Access the Pinterest API for data on boards, pins and users.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/ttbbeer/">ttbbeer</a>: Beer statistics from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/ubeR/">ubeR</a>: Interface to the Uber API.</p>
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<h3><strong>Graphics</strong></h3>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/cartogram/">cartogram</a>: Create and plot a continuous area cartogram by a rubber sheet distortion algorithm.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/colourlovers/">colourlovers</a>: Provides access to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.colourlovers.com/">COLOURlovers</a> API, which offers color inspiration and color palettes.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/earthtones/">earthtones</a>: Derive a color palette from a satellite image of a location on Earth. The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/web/packages/earthtones/vignettes/earthtones.html">vignette</a> includes examples.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/Homeric/">Homeric</a>: Doughnut plots – pie charts with a blank center. The package is named after Homer Simpson.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/RSVGTipsDevice/">RSVGTipsDevice</a> (updated): An R SVG graphics device with support for dynamic tips and hyperlinks.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/tweenr/">tweenr</a> (updated): Create smooth animations by interpolating data.</p>
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<h3><strong>Interfaces</strong></h3>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/haven/">haven</a> (updated): Import and export SPSS, Stata and SAS Files. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.rstudio.org/2016/10/04/haven-1-0-0/">Details here</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/readr/">readr</a> (updated): Read flat/tabular text files from disk (or a connection). <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/tidyverse/readr">Overview here</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/SnakeCharmR/">SnakeCharmR</a>: Run Python code, make function calls, and assign and retrieve variables from R.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/sofa/">sofa</a>: Provides an interface to the NoSQL database CouchDB.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/sparklyr/">sparklyr</a>: Provision, connect and interface to Apache Spark from within R. Details at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://spark.rstudio.com/">spark.rstudio.com</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/XR/">XR</a>: Support for interfaces from R to other languages, described in the book “Extending R” by John Chambers.</p>
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<h3><strong>Programming Tools</strong></h3>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/checkpoint/">checkpoint</a> (updated): Easily use R packages from a specific date for reproducibility (see the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/web/packages/checkpoint/vignettes/checkpoint.html">vignette</a>). This update adds the ability to delete snapshots and use a local snapshot repository.  </p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/curl/">curl</a> (updated): A modern and flexible web client for R. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/web/packages/curl/vignettes/intro.html">Vignette</a> included.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/curry/">curry</a>: Partial function application with %&lt;%, %-&lt;%, and %>&lt;%.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/jsonlite/">jsonlite</a> (updated): fast JSON parser and generator optimized for statistical data and the web.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/proto/">proto</a> (updated): An object oriented system using object-based rather than class-based object oriented ideas, from Hadley Wickham. Includes a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/web/packages/proto/vignettes/proto.pdf">vignette</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/Rfast/">Rfast</a>: Fast covariance matrix calculation, Mahalanobis distance and column-wise variances and other fast reimplementations of R functions.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/sticky/">sticky</a>: Allows objects to be marked as 'sticky' and have resilient attributes that persist during many operations.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/types/">types</a>: Simple type annotation for R, as a convention to allow other packages to provide error checking, automatic documentation or optimizations.</p>
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<h3><strong>Reporting</strong></h3>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/bookdown/">bookdown</a>: Output formats and utilities for authoring books with R Markdown.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/htmltidy/">htmltidy</a>: Clean up gnarly HTML generated by the likes of Google Docs and Microsoft Word.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/rmarkdown/">rmarkdown</a> (updated): Dynamic documents for R. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/">Overview and examples here</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/tables/">tables</a> (updated): Compute and display complex tables of summary statistics. Examples in the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/web/packages/tables/vignettes/tables.pdf">vignette</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/tint/">tint</a>: Format RMarkdown documents in the style of an Edward Tufte book. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/tint.html">Examples here</a>.</p>
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<h3><strong>Statistical Modeling and Analysis</strong></h3>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/arc/">arc</a>: Classification-based on Association Rules (CBA) algorithm for association rule classification (ARC).</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/brms/">brms</a>: Bayesian regression models using Stan. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/web/packages/brms/vignettes/brms.pdf">Vignette</a> included.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/CADStat/">CADStat</a>: Provides a GUI to several statistical methods including generalized linear regression, conditional probability calculations, and regression trees. The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/web/packages/CADStat/CADStat.pdf">manual</a> provides more details.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/endogenous/">endogenous</a>: Classical Simultaneous Equation Models.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/ensembleR/">ensembleR</a>: Functions to use ensembles of several machine learning models specified in caret package.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/MSGARCH/">MSGARCH</a>: Markov-Switching GARCH Models.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/oddsratio/">oddsratio</a>: Odds Ratio Calculation for Generalized Additive Models and Generalized Linear Models.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/pkmon/">pkmon</a>: Least-squares estimators under k-monotony constraint. Pikachu not included.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/radiant/">radiant</a>: Business analytics using R and Shiny. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://radiant-rstats.github.io/docs/">Overview here</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/simputation/">simputation</a>: Missing value imputation methods that work with the magrittr %>% pipe operator. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/web/packages/simputation/vignettes/intro.html">Vignette</a> included.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/spikes/">spikes</a>: Detect election fraud from irregularities in vote-share distributions.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/SurvDisc/">SurvDisc</a>: Functions for discrete time survival analysis and longitudinal analysis, from the FDA.</p>
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<h3><strong>Utilities</strong></h3>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/convertr/">convertr</a>: Convert between a broad range of scientific, historical, and industrial unit types.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/digitize/">digitize</a>: Extract data from images of printed charts.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/measurements/">measurements</a>: Convert between metric and imperial measurement units.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/qrencoder/">qrencoder</a>: Create scannable QR codes and matrix barcodes.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/optimr/">optimr</a>: A replacement and extension of the 'optim' function for smooth, possibly box constrained functions of several or many parameters.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/RDocumentation/">RDocumentation</a>: Display help files as they appear on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rdocumentation.org/">RDocumentation.org</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/recordr/">recordr</a>: Record data provenance about R script executions (files read/written, packages used, timestamps etc.)</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/triangulation/">triangulation</a>: Determine the location of an observer based on the angle towards three known points.</p>
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<h3><strong>Other</strong></h3>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/FuzzyR/">FuzzyR</a>: Design and simulate fuzzy logic systems using Type 1 Fuzzy Logic.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/statquotes/">statquotes</a>: Random quotations on topics in statistics, data visualization and science.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/wfindr/">wfindr</a>: Crossword, Scrabble and anagram solver.</p>
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<p>You can find more notable packages from prior releases of MRO at the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/spotlight/">Spotlights page on MRAN</a>.</p>
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