Fall R Meetup

Thanks so much for Revv Oakland (http://www.revvoakland.com/) for being willing to let us host at their coworking space.

Agenda:

Mikhail Popov, "A Short Tutorial on Some Neat Stuff":

a short tutorial on some neat stuff like:

• Recently released %>% forward-pipe operator

• Totally underused Reduce function

• Not very well known %in% and <<- operators.

• .. argument for smarter functions

• Custom binary operators

Mark Patterson, "Fun with R on the web: playing 2048 and twitter pointillism"
Overview of two "just for fun" projects: here (http://decisionsandr.blogspot.com/2014/04/play-2048-using-r.html) I describe how to play 2048 using R, and here (http://decisionsandr.blogspot.com/2014/04/visualizing-twitter-followers-using.html) I show how to use R to create a pointillist representation of twitter profile pictures, based on the number of followers a person has.