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We are staying virtual to kick off R Week, with Miles McBain coming to us from Australia, following in the footsteps of Rob Hyndman, Earo Wang & Di Cook.
Thank you to EcoHealth Alliance for providing the Zoom link.
This is the first event of the week, with our Sixth Annual R Conference & Workshops taking place that Wednesday through Saturday, 12th-15th. The workshops cover machine learning in both R & Python, web scraping, shiny, GIS, git & the tidyverse. Speakers include Andrew Gelman, Emily Dodwell, Jon Krohn, Emily Robinson, Wes McKinney, Ludmila Janda, David Robinson & too many more to list here. Visit https://rstats.ai/nyr/ for more information & use code nyhackr for a 20% discount.
About the Talk:
When would you use an R notebook versus a project dependency graph solver? Should everything be an R package? What can your R project workflow optimise for, & which properties of your work can this affect?
Despite the importance of questions like these to having a happy & productive time with R, there is little community consensus on the principles for establishing R project workflows.
We will begin the session by examining these questions & mapping out workflow styles served by existing R tooling. In the second half I will demonstrate practical productivity boosters my team & I have implemented along the way to a workflow centered on {drake}.
About Miles:
I'm a Data Scientist at Queensland Fire & Emergency Services where I use R to identify & analyse investment options in our emergency services network. Since I started programming in R about 5 years ago I've become an active #rstats tweeter, blogger, & RWeekly editor. I was an organiser of a local meetup group, three rOpensci OzUnconferences, & useR! 2018 Brisbane. I release R packages that do extremely niche things. Everyone's favourite is {datapasta} but {fnmate} is probably the one I get the most personal joy out of. I am into workflows because of their capacity to change the way work feels.
The talk will begin at 7 & we will start admitting people to the event shortly before. Since this is completely remote there will be no pizza but everyone is encouraged to have pizza individually.
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