The R-Podcast

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 Feedback Email the show: thercast[at]gmail.com Use the R-Podcast contact page: https://r-podcast.org/contact

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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 Feedback Leave a comment on this episode's post Email the show: thercast[at]gmail.com Use the R-Podcast contact page Episode Timestamps 00:00:00.000 Intro 00:01:48.000 Shiny community e-poster 00:20:12.000 Garrick Aiden-Buie 00:38:10.000 Styling Shiny apps 00:40:56.000 Shinymeta 00:44:20.000 logger 00:49:49.000 listener feedback 00:57:25.000 Wrapup 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 Feedback Leave a comment on this episode's post Email the show: thercast[at]gmail.com Use the R-Podcast contact page Episode Timestamps 00:00:00.000 Intro 00:01:25.000 RStudio PBC 00:14:50.000 RWeekly Curators Unite! 00:18:45.000 RStudio's Kevin Ushey 00:42:26.000 Residual Snippets 00:47:52.000 Wrapup Music Credits Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

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 Feedback Leave a comment on this episode's post Email the show: thercast[at]gmail.com Use the R-Podcast contact page Episode Timestamps 00:00:00.000 Intro 00:01:22.000 JSM Memories 00:07:16.000 Why Javascript recap 00:13:04.000 Shinymeta advice 00:19:54.000 Conversation with Alison & Mine 01:01:50.000 Takeaways & Wrapup Music Credits Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org