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  1. FEB 24

    608: R With Eric Nantz

    House Keeping Google / YouTube Update Join the Discord! Feedback Rust in the Linux Kernel. R Stuff What is R Again? Great presentation by John Chambers at UseR! 2006 https://www.r-project.org/conferences/useR-2006/Slides/Chambers.pdf The times have changed, now R is very much suited for production use and not just an academic research language Highly recommend reading Advanced R for more comprehensive details on the quirks of the language https://adv-r.hadley.nz/index.html R VS Python for Data? Different philosophies on the use of the language CRAN vs PyPi Interoperability becoming more mainstream now Visualization: R has always been leaps and bounds ahead (Grammar of Graphics, interactive widgets, etc) R Dev Stack? IDEs: RStudio, now Positron https://positron.posit.co/ Managing package installations with renv https://rstudio.github.io/renv/ Building web apps with Shiny: https://shiny.posit.co/ (I got so engrossed in this space that I created the Shiny Developer Series because of it) Early adopter of using Docker with R in devcontainers with VS-Code. New tech I’m excited about to enhance dev stacks and sharing apps WebAssembly with webR https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/ Shiny apps in webR? Yes you can https://github.com/RConsortium/submissions-pilot4-webR Managing dev environment combined with Nix: The rix package https://github.com/ropensci/rix (More organized links for show notes) R Language: https://r-project.org Posit (formerly RStudio): https://posit.co RStudio IDE https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/ Positron (still in beta): https://positron.posit.co/ History of S and R presentation by John Chambers at useR! 2006: http://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Slides/Chambers.pdf Advanced R (2nd edition) by Hadley Wickham https://adv-r.hadley.nz/index.html Shiny - Easy interactive web applications with R: https://shiny.posit.co/ renv - Project environments for R: https://rstudio.github.io/renv/ R Markdown: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/ WebR - R in the browser: https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/ Rix - Reproducible Data Science environments for R with Nix: https://github.com/ropensci/rix Chromatic by ModRetro Chromatic: https://modretro.com/products/chromatic-tetris-bundle?variant=47637522579758 FPGA Mike’s Review Eric’s Thoughts Eric's Socials R Weekly Highlights: https://serve.podhome.fm/r-weekly-highlights Shiny Developer Series: https://shinydevseries.com/ R Podcast: https://r-podcast.org Bluesky: @rpodcast@bsky.social Mastodon: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-nantz-6621617/ Coder's Socials Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Coder on BlueSky Show Discord Alice

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