The R-Podcast has risen again! After sharing the story of my R adventures since the last episode, we focus on a very important initiative that could pave the way for the next generation of developers contributing to the future of R itself. I am joined by research software engineer Heather Turner and statistician Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal to share the story of how the new R Development Guide brings a new and accessible approach for learning how to contribute to the R project itself, along with their vision of the upcoming Collaborative Campfires to inspire and grow the community around this imporant effort.

Links

• Update on the RWeekly and 2021 Reflections: https://rweekly.fireside.fm/70
• Collaboration Campfires: contributor.r-project.org/events/collaboration-campfires
• R Contribution Working Group: contributor.r-project.org/working-group
• R Development Guide: contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/
• Digital Infrastructure Icubator: incubator.codeforscience.org/cohort

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About this Episode

This is the second of multiple episodes covering the recent rstudio::conf 2020! In this episode, Eric shares the backstory behind his Shiny Community e-poster and welcomes data scientist Garrick Aiden-Buie to discuss his spectacular JavaScript for Shiny Users course, the mind-blowing features of the package accompanying the course, and much more. Plus takeaways from Shiny-related presentations at the conference and a fresh batch of listener feedback.

Links

• rstudio::conf(2020L) recordings: resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2020
• Reaping the benfits of the Shiny community e-poster: rpodcast.shinyapps.io/highlights-shiny
• Poster source code: github.com/rpodcast/highlights.shiny
• Javascript for Shiny Users: js4shiny.com/
• Garrick's GitHub: github.com/gadenbuie
• js4shiny package: pkg.js4shiny.com/
• Styling Shiny apps with Sass and Bootstrap 4 (Joe Cheng): resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2020/styling-shiny-apps-with-sass-and-bootstrap-4-joe-cheng
• Reproducible Shiny apps with shinymeta (Carson Sievert): resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2020/reproducible-shiny-apps-with-shinymeta-dr-carson-sievert
• Getting things logged (Gergely Daroczi): resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2020/getting-things-logged-gergely-daroczi
• Listener Ricardo's R & tidyverse tutorial: predictcrypto.org/tutorials
• xaringan package's infinite moon reader: [https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/xaringan-preview.html](bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/xaringan-preview.html)
• My appearance on Michael Dominick Show: https://www.automator.show/8
• NSSD 101 interview with JJ Allaire: nssdeviations.com/101-special-guest-jj-allaire

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Music Credits

• Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

About this Episode

This is the first of multiple episodes covering the recent rstudio::conf 2020! In this episode, Eric shares his take on the big news made by RStudio and has a great interview with RStudio software engineer Kevin Ushey.

Links

• RStudio becomes a Public Benefit Corporation: blog.rstudio.com/2020/01/29/rstudio-pbc
• RStudio changes structure to focus on public benefit: www.infoworld.com/article/3518390/rstudio-changes-structure-to-focus-on-public-benefit.html
• JJ Allaire's keynote slides: rstudio.com/slides/rstudio-pbc/
• A corporate paradign shift - Public Benefit Corporations [https://www.gibsondunn.com/a-corporate-paradigm-shift-public-benefit-corporations/](www.gibsondunn.com/a-corporate-paradigm-shift-public-benefit-corporations)
• renv: Project Environments for R kevinushey-2020-rstudio-conf.netlify.com/slides.html
• renv GitHub repository: github.com/rstudio/renv
• Emil Hvitfeldt's repository with rstudio::conf links to slides and other materials: github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/RStudioConf2020Slides
• Residual Snippets app: rpodcast.shinyapps.io/rsnippets

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About this Episode

In this episode, Eric shares insights gained from the JSM 2019 conference, including an excellent panel discussion on the use of javascript in statistics. In addition, Eric is joined by RStudio's education team members Alison Hill & Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel to discuss new ideas for teaching data science effectively, as well as how tools like R-Markdown are opening many new possibilities for both students and teachers.

Episode Shownotes

• Why Javascript? JSM panel discussion:
  • Karl Broman's slides
  • Carson Sievert's slides
• Data Science in a Box: datasciencebox.org
• RStudio Learner Personas: rstudio-education.github.io/learner-personas
• Advanced R-Markdown workshop from rstudio::conf 2019: arm.rbind.io/
• learnr - Interactive tutorials in R: rstudio.github.io/learnr
• Project Kickstart-R - Create a project/team website and knowledge sharing platform with R-Markdown: github.com/sourcethemes/project-kickstart-r
• lullabyr - Generate children's songs with random words: github.com/mine-cetinkaya-rundel/lullabyr

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About this Episode

Eric is joined by RStudio's president Tareef Kawaf and they cover a wide variety of topics including Tareef's journey to RStudio, building a robust organization structure, and how an open-core model drives RStudio's vision for the present and future.

Episode Shownotes

• RStudio 1.2 release highlights: blog.rstudio.com/2019/04/30/rstudio-1-2-release
• Tareef's opening keynote at rstudio::conf 2019: Welcome and RStudio Vision
• Reproducible Environments: environments.rstudio.com
• RStudio Community: community.rstudio.com
• RStudio Cloud (currently in alpha): rstudio.cloud
• Introducing RStudio Team: blog.rstudio.com/2019/05/09/introducing-rstudio-team

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• Get in touch on Twitter: @theRcast

Music Credits

• Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

Chicago R Unconference

• Unconf website: [https://chirunconf.github.io/](chirunconf.github.io/)
• Issue board: github.com/chirunconf/chirunconf19/issues
• #chirunconf (Sharla Gelfand): sharla.party/posts/chirunconf/
• Discover and share your supeR powers (Mauro Lepore): maurolepore.github.io/confs/articles/2019_chirunconf_experience.html
• Joshua Goldberg's awesome unconf photo album
• footrulr package repo: github.com/kanishkamisra/footrulr
• Fixed-Choice Design Simulation drake workflow (Ben Listyg): github.com/wlandau/drake-examples/tree/master/fcd
• drake v7.0.0 package release notes: ropensci.org/technotes/2019/03/18/drake-700/
• electricShine package repo: github.com/chasemc/electricShine
• 25 gt examples: frm1789.github.io/gt_examples/
• The Unconference Toolbox: github.com/unconf-toolbox/
• The Unconf Issue Explorer Shiny app: rpodcast.shinyapps.io/unconfissues/
• Unconf Twitter bot repo: github.com/unconf-toolbox/unconf-bot
• How to Organize an R Unconference: unconf-toolbox.github.io/unconf-guide/
• Unconf attendee application repo: github.com/unconf-toolbox/unconf-apps
• Unconf review Shiny app repo: github.com/unconf-toolbox/Shiny_review_app
• rlangtip package repo: github.com/revodavid/rlangtip
• broom package repo: github.com/tidymodels/broom
• workflowr package repo: github.com/jdblischak/workflowr

Package Pick

• brickr 3D LEGO models and mosaics from images using R and tidyverse: github.com/ryantimpe/brickr
• My ShinyLEGO app: rpodcast.shinyapps.io/shinylego/

Community News Highlights

• Powered by R Weekly issue 2019-11
• R 3.5.3 now available: blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2019/03/r-353-now-available.html
• R Consortium 2019 Update: www.r-consortium.org/blog/2019/03/12/2019-update-one-r-consortium-and-isc-announce-the-newest-funded-projects-for-the-r-community

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Music Credits

• Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

Conversation with Max Kuhn

• Tidy models: github.com/tidymodels
• parsnip - A tidy interface to models: tidymodels.github.io/parsnip/
• caret package: topepo.github.io/caret/index.html
• Conventions for R Modeling Packages: tidymodels.github.io/model-implementation-principles/

Additional rstudio::conf gems

• Empowering a data team with RStudio addins (Hao Zhu): resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2019/empowering-a-data-team-with-rstudio-addins
• pak: A fresh approach to package installation: pak.r-lib.org/
• Gabor Csardi's rstudio::conf presentation: resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2019/pkgman-a-fresh-approach-to-package-installation
• Democratizing R with Plumber APIs (James Blair): resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2019/democratizing-r-with-plumber-apis
• Configuration management tools for the R admin (Kelly O'Briant): resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2019/configuration-management-tools-for-the-r-admin
• The lazy and distracted report writer - using rmarkdown and parameterised reports (Mike K Smith): resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2019/the-lazy-and-easily-distracted-report-writer-using-rmarkdown-and-parameterised-reports
• Modernizing the Clinical Trial Analysis Pipeline with R and JavaScript: github.com/RhoInc/RStudioConf2019-ePoster/

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Music Credits

• Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

In this episode I share the advice and tips I used to prepare my talk on Shiny Modules at rstudio::conf 2019. Plus I sit down with RStudio software engineer Rich Iannone to learn about his journey from atmospheric science to creating a collection of awesome R packages like DiagrammeR and gt for creating tables with a tidy syntax. As always thank you so much for listening and hope you enjoy this episode!

Conversation with Rich Iannone

• DiagrammeR package: visualizers.co/diagrammer/
• gt package: gt.rstudio.com/
• blastula package: github.com/rich-iannone/blastula

Preparing for the Shiny Modules talk

• Karl Browman's rstudio::conf 2019 resources repo: github.com/kbroman/RStudioConf2019Slides
• Slides: bit.ly/modules2019
• Recording: resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2019/effective-use-of-shiny-modules-in-application-development
• Communication between modules article: shiny.rstudio.com/articles/communicate-bet-modules.html
• Ames Housing Explorer application: gallery.shinyapps.io/ames-explorer
• shinypod package by Ian Lyttle: github.com/ijlyttle/shinypod
• shinysense package by Nick Strayer: github.com/nstrayer/shinysense
• Giving your first data science talk by Emily Robinson: hookedondata.org/giving-your-first-data-science-talk/
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Public Work (David Robinson): slides and recording

Additional resources

• Tips on designing hex stickers for R packages (Hao Zhu): zhuhao.org/post/tips-on-designing-a-hex-sticker-for-rstats-packages/

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Music Credits

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Another spectacular rstudio::conf is in the books and the R-Podcast has tons of insights to share! We kick off our coverage with a three-podcast crossover as I am joined by Credibly Curious co-host Nick Tierny and Not So Standard Deviations co-host Hilary Parker! We discuss our impressions of the conference and where we'd like to see R go in 2019. Plus I share how my journey to the Advanced R-Markdown workshop is a testament to the welcoming and openness that the R community offers. This is just the beginning of our coverage and I hope you enjoy this episode!

Conversation with Hilary Parker and Nick Tierney

• Credibly Curious podcast: soundcloud.com/crediblycurious
• Not So Standard Deviations podcast: nssdeviations.com
• Apache Arrow: arrow.apache.org
• Tidy Evaluation online book: tidyeval.tidyverse.org
• Tidy models family of packages: github.com/tidymodels
• The magick package by Jeroen Ooms: github.com/ropensci/magick
• pagedown package (paginate HTML output of R Markdown) by Yihui Xie: github.com/rstudio/pagedown

Advanced R Markdown workshop highlights

• Course website: arm.rbind.io (powered by blogdown!)
• Course GitHub repository: github.com/rstudio-education/arm-workshop-rsc2019
• My slides on using the officer package to create PowerPoint slides: rpodcast.github.io/officer-advrmarkdown
• The officer package documenation: davidgohel.github.io/officer
• MegaMan slide generator Shiny app: rpodcast.shinyapps.io/megaman
• GitHub repo for slides and app: github.com/rpodcast/officer-advrmarkdown

Feedback

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Music Credits

• Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

Conversation with Ian Lyttle

• Twitter: @ijlyttle | Github: github.com/ijlyttle
• Ian's presentation at rstudio::conf 2018 recording: www.rstudio.com/resources/videos/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-firewall/
• bsplus package: ijlyttle.github.io/bsplus/
• shinychord package: github.com/ijlyttle/shinychord
• ghenter package: github.com/ijlyttle/ghentr

Rstudio::conf 2018 takeaways and insights

• Advanced R 2nd Edition new chapters:
  • Expressions: adv-r.hadley.nz/expressions.html
  • Quasiquotation: adv-r.hadley.nz/expressions.html
  • Evaluation: adv-r.hadley.nz/evaluation.html
  • Translating R Code: adv-r.hadley.nz/translation.html
• lobstr package: github.com/r-lib/lobstr
• Recordings from all sessions on RStudio site: rstudio.com/resources/webinars/#rstudioconf2018
• Collection of presentation links: github.com/simecek/RStudioConf2018Slides/
• Presentations by RStudio staff: github.com/rstudio/rstudio-conf/tree/master/2018/
• rstudio::conf 2018 summary (Paul van der Laken): paulvanderlaken.com/2018/02/08/rstudioconf-2018-summary
• Rewriting the R organism at rstudio::conf 2018 (John David Smith): goo.gl/rGfqip
• David Miller's slides on rstudio::conf 2018: github.com/dill/rstudioconf2018-summary/blob/master/talk.Rmd
• Recap of rstudio::conf 2018 (Colby Ford): www.blue-granite.com/blog/rstudio-conference-2018-recap
• Highlights from rstudio::conf 2018 (Methods Consultants blog): blog.methodsconsultants.com/posts/highlights-from-rstudio-conf-2018/
• lobstr package: github.com/r-lib/lobstr

Listener feedback

• A completely subjective ranking of data science podcasts: tonyelhabr.rbind.io/posts/data-science-podcasts

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