Saskia and Nick build a simple R package. We learn about the why, what, how, tests, documentation, maintenance and more. Shownotes: Praise package: https://github.com/rladies/praise vdiffr (comparing plots in R): https://github.com/r-lib/vdiffr Books: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/ https://bookdown.org/rdpeng/RProgDA/ https://devguide.ropensci.org/collaboration.html Blogs: https://masalmon.eu/2017/12/11/goodrpackages/ https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200486488-Developing-Packages-with-RStudio ..read more

Nick reviews Saskia's code. We learn about good coding style and tools that can help with that. Shownotes: tidyr getting new names for gather and spread - pivot_wider and pivot_longer Twitter: https://twitter.com/hadleywickham/status/1108107722128613377 , https://twitter.com/hadleywickham/status/1109816130774986753 Hadley’s Analysis : https://github.com/hadley/table-shapes The old package website for original reshape: http://had.co.nz/reshape/ Reshape2: https://github.com/hadley/reshape plyr: https://github.com/hadley/plyr Code reviews (general process, feelings etc.) https://medium.com/palant ..read more

Nick and Saskia discuss moving, RStudio Conference, hexbin plots and the scales package Shownotes: RStudio Conference videos: https://resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2019 Just Three Things videos: https://www.njtierney.com/post/2019/02/18/announcing-jtt/ https://twitter.com/JenRichmondPhD/status/1097958614092767234 ..read more

In this episode, Nick and Saskia discuss their experiences at rOpenSci Oz unconf in Melbourne. Thanks to all the participants at the Oz unconf, who contributed. Shownotes: - rOpenSci: ropensci.org/ - rOpenSci Ozunconf site: http://ozunconf18.ropensci.org/ - rOpenSci ozunconf projects worked on at the unconf: http://ozunconf18.ropensci.org/projects - rOpenSci ozunconf blog posts: https://ropensci.org/tags/ozunconf/ - Ozunconf ideas: https://github.com/ropensci/ozunconf18/issues - Credibly Curious hex sticker: www.dropbox.com/s/j867tflfd2zyaae…hex-blue.png?dl=0 - rstudio conf agenda: http://www ..read more

In this episode, Nick and Saskia chat to Di Cook about the history of graphics, interactivity, ggplot2 and perception. Shownotes: - [Sun Workstation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUN_workstation) - [Techtronix workstation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010) - [Silicon graphics workstation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics) - [ASA video lending library](http://stat-graphics.org/movies/) - [DataViewer](http://stat-graphics.org/movies/dataviewer.html) - [Antelope software](http://stat-graphics.org/movies/antelope.html) - [Xgobi](http://stat-graphics.org/movies/xgobi.html ..read more

Nick and Saskia discuss sweave, knitr, rmarkdown, and notebooks. What are they? Why do they exist? How do they interact? Shownotes: Yihui Xie’s thesis: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13518/ Yihui Xie’s blog: https://yihui.name/en/ R Markdown: The Definitive Guide: https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/ Grattan Institute Reports: https://grattan.edu.au/publications/reports/ Daring fireball by John Gruber: https://daringfireball.net/ Jonathan Gruber note on markdown discussed on: https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/ - podcast link https://soundcloud.com/thetalks ..read more

In this episode, Nick and Saskia discuss their experiences at useR2018! in Brisbane. Contributions by Thomas Lumely, Thomas Lin Pedersen, Zachary Foster, Goknur Giner, Lucy Luyi, Steph de Silva, Roger Peng, Dan Putler, Dirk Eddlebeutel, Francois Michenneau and Miles McBain! Shownotes: UseR2018 video provided by R consortium: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_R5smHVXRYGhZYDJsnXTwg Solution to Episode 2’s puzzle: https://blog.mitchelloharawild.com/blog/loading-r-packages-in-a-loop ..read more

In this episode, Nick and Saskia talk to their first ever guest Roger Peng about all things tidyverse. What is it? Why use it? Its perceived flaws and much more. Shownotes: Blog post on the pipe (%>%) : https://www.r-bloggers.com/simpler-r-coding-with-pipes-the-present-and-future-of-the-magrittr-package/ Friendly evaluations: https://github.com/MilesMcBain/friendlyeval Hadleyverse burndown: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/useR-international-R-User-conference/useR2016/Towards-a-grammar-of-interactive-graphics (at around 44mins) Running R on your phone: https://tteoh.com/post/2016-10-20-r-rs ..read more

In the first episode of this podcast, Nick and Saskia describe what CRAN, BioConductor are, and how they work ..read more

Saskia and Nick build a simple R package. We learn about the why, what, how, tests, documentation, maintenance and more. Shownotes: Praise package: https://github.com/rladies/praise vdiffr (comparing plots in R): https://github.com/r-lib/vdiffr Books: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/ https://bookdown.org/rdpeng/RProgDA/ https://devguide.ropensci.org/collaboration.html Blogs: https://masalmon.eu/2017/12/11/goodrpackages/ https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200486488-Developing-Packages-with-RStudio ..read more