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• tensorflow.rstudio.com

Atom feed doesn't validate

What

I noticed the feed wasn't showing up in my reader (Planet Venus), and checked it on the W3C validator:

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Frweekly.org%2Fatom.xml

Ideas about How to Solve It

Set an email address in the config, and add a trailing slash to the id.

use jsdelivr CDN?

jsDelivr is a free, fast, and reliable Open Source CDN for npm and GitHub.

https://www.jsdelivr.com

Migrating from RawGit to jsDelivr : https://www.jsdelivr.com/rawgit

ping @qinwf

Display the list of RSS Feeds for R Weekly Live

see https://twitter.com/StatnMap/status/965212788888162304

URL https://rweekly.org/2019-29.html 404

I find this post https://rweekly.org/2019-29.html unfound.

Bug Report: URL fails to open.

At the latest page https://rweekly.org/2019-18.html , this URL runcharter ( johnmackintosh.com ) fails to open (404).

I click the GitHub User Page, but the author @johnmackintosh doesn't open the issue button, here.

Thus, I only report it here now. Hope to reach out @johnmackintosh to see what is going on.

Screencast for rweekly submission

Hi,

Following a superb suggestion by @maelle I have created a screencast of showing a rweekly submission via a PR (@leynu tested it in #570).

You can download it here.

Purpose: A PR is difficult to do if you have never done one before. The screencast shows the few steps and hopefully helps new-to-PR folks.

I could have added it to the README.md directly, but I think you should first have a look at it and decide whether this is the way you want a PR to be done (please give feedback if not, so I can redo it).

Should the screencast be uploaded to any video hosting platform?

Sina

Link not added in Weekly Newsletter

I submitted a link of my blog to https://rweekly.org/submit. The link is related to data manipulation with R . I submitted it on 16th Jan. I think it should be added to the weekly newsletter today. Is not all the links listed in newsletter? I checked RSS feed. It's correct.

Stack Overflow Question/Answer(s) of the week section

Was wondering if this would help others - either a link or a section with SO Q&As.

Thx!
Abd

Seems paginator didn't work in home page

https://github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org/blob/gh-pages/index.html#L22

I don't know how to solve it , please CC @qinwf

Presentation (Doubt - if this is allowed? )

https://github.com/amrrs/RinTheRealWorld

Just wanted to know if the presentation in this repo can be submitted?

If so, please suggest the category.

Proposal: @rweekly_submit twitter account

(posted here rather than internal forums to encourage public engagement)

What do we think about having a twitter account purely for submissions? Found a link? Reply and tag @rweekly_submit - we can scrape the mentions weekly, resolve the t.co links, and de-duplicate for a new batch of submissions.

draft.md: seems to contain old info + new info is lost

https://github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org/blob/gh-pages/draft.md, e.g. Section 'Upcoming Events in 3 Months'

Insights section in Draft

Can we add medium articles link in the insights subsection? Because many medium articles of famous authors provides rich and deep information of R used algorithms and trickks.

Also if you can suggest which links can be added in supporting the insighgs subsection?

Item under "Updates from R-Core" is nothing to do with R-Core

The item:

R Project Updates
Updates from R Core: ( developer.r-project.org )
Data-Driven Tracking and Discovery of R Consortium Activities ( r-consortium.org )

is nothing to do with R-Core.

Source is I think here:

rweekly.org/_posts/2019-11-18-2019-46.md

Line 157 in 92764f1

+ [Data-Driven Tracking and Discovery of R Consortium Activities](https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2019/11/14/data-driven-tracking-and-discovery-of-r-consortium-activities)

Images in R Weekly show up full size in my Gmail

All the images that are attached to the R Weekly show up really big (too big) when I view the email in my Gmail.

Date format: Use ISO YYYY-MM-DD

R Weekly uses 'Release Date: 2018-6-18'. There exist no such date format (YYYY-M-DD) and as a data science community I think we should be good citizens and not use non-standard date and timestamps. I recommend using the ISO standard (YYYY-MM-DD), e.g. 'Release Date: 2018-06-18'. From xkcd:

Seperate R Weekly Live new package items from the feed

Check duplicated items with scripts or travis-ci

Add a github trending R repo section ?

As I shared on twitter, you can follow github trends for R packages specifically in this thread
vitalets/github-trending-repos#39 (comment)
This is based on GIthub trends
https://github.com/trending/r?since=weekly

It could be interesting to a set of trending R repo every week on R weekly. If it could be the same package sometimes, there is still often some discoveries on new packages.

Also, I think it would be feasible to automate content creation each week. I am no familiar with R weekly workflow though.

What do you think ?

Add guidance on where to add link

Top or bottom

Cc @malcombarrett who made me realized we have no guidance for that, thanks!

Update submit page

related https://twitter.com/StatnMap/status/966953594439241729

day of week off in October live feed

day of week is off?

Live feed claims 2017-10-30 is a Sunday. The days have been off since those two Mondays in mid October.

how to solve it.

uh, pretty easy.

Highlight Section

I notice that it is just Tuesday, but we already added a lot of posts to the draft this week.

I came up with an idea about adding a highlight ⭐ section to the weekly.

This section may be subjective. So here is a proposal for the selection process of the highlight posts.

1. Each weekly contains at most 3 highlight posts.
2. Members of the R Weekly will vote for at most three posts on the R Weekly Slack channel every Saturday. If you do not want to recommend any post, you can skip the vote.

If you want to be an R Weekly organization member, please take the survey.

If you are not accepted at first, please do not be discouraged. Create some pull requests to interact with us to let us know more about each other! ❤️

Has R Weekly 2019-49 not yet been published?

Release date for 2020-10 needs removing

Release Date: 2020-00-00 appears below the filter box, but we have the actual post date above it anyway.

404 in 2017-6

What

https://gshotwell.github.io/Gordon_Shotwell/post/r_for_excel_users/, listed under Tutorials in 2017-02-06-2017-6.md returns 404 (at least for me).

Ideas about How to Solve It

Update link to http://shotwell.ca/blog/post/r_for_excel_users/ as per https://twitter.com/gshotwell/status/828679080837074945. That site is occasionally quite slow however.

Related Issues

Are we still running the 404 checker over this site? Should we re-implement that, especially as posts potentially become stale?

Broken link in 2018-10

The link listed for "Tail Recursion Optimisation in R" -- https://mailund.github.io/r-programmer-blog/post/2018-03-02-tailr-tail-recursion-optimisation-in-r/ -- doesn't work (404).

This is the link that works for me: https://mailund.github.io/r-programmer-blog/2018/03/02/tailr--tail-recursion-optimisation/

Bug Report: Invalid URL

This post URL in the Live field is invalid.

The Importance of Communication for Analysis / Data Science ( www.mango-solutions.com ) 
https://www.mango-solutions.com/the-importance-of-communication-for-analysis-data-science/

Clarify which packages are on CRAN, Bioconductor and which are on GitHub etc.

There is big differences in trust, long term archival availability, version control (sic!), ... for a package on CRAN versus a package on a self-hosted website or on GitHub or similar. Because of this I think would be valuable if packages mentioned on rweekly.org are tagged or structured such that it clear they're not on CRAN or Bioconductor(*). This helps encourage submitting packages to CRAN, send the message that it makes a difference, while not discouraging GitHub-only packages to be announced here.

(*) The CRAN organization considers both CRAN and Bioconductor as so called "mainstream" repositories (e.g. a package on CRAN may depend on a Bioconductor package without further specifications).

Datasets

Are the kaggle datasets allowed?

December todo lists

• update readme about the background of R Weekly
• a list of R Weekly current team members and introduction

Reddit discussion?

Are we allowed to add Reddit discussions like this?

Am I crazy for loving R as a general-purpose high-level language?

Set up github sponsors?

the duplicated lines happen for 2019-10

Here the duplicated lines *R Journal publication journey ( eranraviv.com ) * happen, https://rweekly.org/2019-10.html

change RSS feeds

Hi, Can I get my general RSS feed (https://jasdumas.github.io/feed.xml) exchanged for my R focused one (https://jasdumas.github.io/r-bloggers-feed.xml) for the RWeekly live pulls?

issue 2 : little bug about image links?

![[Images as x-axis labels](http://jcarroll.com.au/2016/06/03/images-as-x-axis-labels-updated/)](https://i2.wp.com/jcarroll.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/GDP_updated.png)

raw code Tutorials -> the first one and so on

should be : [![Images as x-axis labels](https://i2.wp.com/jcarroll.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/GDP_updated.png)](http://jcarroll.com.au/2016/06/03/images-as-x-axis-labels-updated/)] ?

@qinwf cc

move our utils

what about moving our scripts to the package that has the app, and renaming it rweekly.tools or so?

RSS feed only displays newsletter titles

I use the Rweekly RSS feed in Zotero. At least in Zotero, the feed only contains the weekly newsletter titles (e.g. R Weekly 2019-09 Lego, group_split) and nothing else. As such, it's pretty much useless. The RSS feed of R-bloggers feeds actual article titles with creator names and abstracts. Could the RSS feed of Rweekly be fixed so that it behaves in a similar way?

Links (link.rweekly.org/*) not working through Feedburner RSS feed

In the feedburner feed of the live stream (https://feeds.feedburner.com/rweekly-live), all new items are linked with a short-link that does'nt work.

For example, on today's feed :

This latest article ("ubiquity PKPD, PBPK, and Systems Pharmacology Modeling Tools") links to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rweekly-live/~3/mQpzLIiX69M/fuq , which is resolved as https://link.rweekly.org/fuq , which in turn resolve to an error :

Thus, this live feed can not be used as is, and requires to go to rweekly live page each time to access the proper links.

Feed seem to be broken

I noticed that new blogs of my site are no longer appearing at rweekly. I reassigned my blog at Submit, but this does not seem to change it. Not sure if it is something on your end or mine, but hopefully we can figure it out together.

Thanks

Not a CRAN package: "Announcing RStudio Package Manager"

"Announcing RStudio Package Manager" is in the wrong place - not a package;

New Packages

CRAN
[...]

• Announcing RStudio Package Manager

Source: commit 1152ebf

Does the submission form still work?

I routinely submit blog posts through the online form but never see them added to the weekly page -- is this possibly due to an error on my part? Is there some way to get a confirmation that submissions have been accepted? Or is it recommended to use GitHub instead?

Minor style suggestions

What

Some of your section headings are not quite common English.

Ideas about How to Solve It

Insert a 'the' to yield

• R in the Real World

Insert a plural 's' to yield

• R in Organizations

Related Issues

Blogpost repeated every week

Hello, I sent a blog to the webpage three weeks ago, and I realized that this is the 3rd time in a row that It appears.

Conferences and user groups

I maintain a list of user groups and conferences: https://github.com/jumpingrivers/meetingsR When a conference or group is added to the pages, I automatically (via Travis) update CSV files at https://jumpingrivers.github.io/meetingsR/the-data.html

Two thoughts:

Conferences

It's fairly easy to get upcoming conferences. For example,

library(tidyverse)
read_csv("https://jumpingrivers.github.io/meetingsR/events.csv") %>%
  mutate(d = lubridate::ymd(paste(year, month, "01", sep = "-"))) %>%
  filter(d < today() + months(3)) %>%
  filter(d > today()) %>%
  arrange(d) %>%
  View()

User groups

Looking at the commits, it would be possible to determine new useR groups in the world. Straightforward to see if the repo has changed in the last week, but probably needs a human to parse the logs.

Add teaching R section?

I think we discussed it before, ropensci/unconf18#63 (comment) reminded me

PR template

I see you have a PR template (and also an issue template) but then it's not related to anything in the contributing guide so I wasn't sure for instance how to justify/not justify the links I was adding? And here in the issue template likewise I am not sure I am doing things right. 😹

Thanks for a great newsletter!

Release Check - Issue 1

Hi, @rweekly/main-weekly. It will be great to read the frozen draft post, and report and fix bugs before we release this issue.

If there is no bugs, it will be great to hit 👍 on this comment to let us know.

Thanks!

conf.rweekly.org out of date

conf.rweekly.org seems a bit out of date, which was a bit confusing to me.

Maybe it would be a good idea to link to https://jumpingrivers.github.io/meetingsR/events.html? (cc @csgillespie)
I see you are already doing that in https://rweekly.org/#UpcomingEventsin3Months