README.md

rstd.io/wtf-2019-rsc

Agenda for:

• "What They Forgot to Teach You About R" workshop
• January 15/16 2019, rstudio::conf 2019 training days, Austin, TX

rstd.io/wtf-2019-rsc <-- The One True URL that links to everything!

Pre-work

Please do the requested Git/GitHub prep in advance, as per email! Go here for details and use this community thread if you hit a roadblock.

Schedule

Tuesday

08:00 - 09:00 Registration/breakfast
09:00 - 10:30 1_1: Project-oriented workflow 1 of 2
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 1_2: Project-oriented workflow 2 of 2
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 1_3: Debugging
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 1_4: Git/GitHub 1

Wednesday

08:00 - 09:00 Registration/breakfast
09:00 - 10:30 2_1: Personal R Administration 1 of 2
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 2_2: Personal R Administration 2 of 2
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 2_3: Git/GitHub 2
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 2_4: Iterating well with purrr

Staff

Instructors

• Jenny Bryan jennybryan.org | Github jennybc | Twitter jennybryan
• Jim Hester jimhester.com | Github jimhester | Twitter jimhester_

TAs and special guests

• Gábor Csárdi | Github gaborcsardi | Twitter gaborcsardi
• Derrick Kearney dskard.github.io | Github dskard
• Grace Lawley grace.rbind.io | Github gracelawley | Twitter graceolawley
• Lionel Henry | Github lionel- | Twitter _lionelhenry
• Jeroen Ooms | Github jeroen | Twitter opencpu

Themes

• Project-oriented mentality, organization, predictability, portability
• Take control of your R installation: startup, libraries & packages
• Why and how re: version control, esp. with R and RStudio
• Strategies for getting unstuck and helping yourself
• Iterating well, esp. with purrr game time decision

Feedback and communication

https://gitter.im/what-they-forgot/wtf-2019-rsc is our chat room. Good for live chat during the workshop. Feel free to ignore if you are overstimulated already.

Issues <-- all are encouraged to open issues as we go. This is actually tremendously helpful to us! Examples of issue-worthy thoughts:

• Glitches in the instructions or materials that we need to fix, for current workshop or future
• Missing content that we identify
• Great questions or sidebar discussions that we should consider formalizing and recording
• Questions that are too specific or technical to answer in real-time

Resources

Written versions of content are under open development here:

• What They Forgot to Teach You About R (bookdown site)
• Happy Git and GitHub for the useR (bookdown site)
• purrr tutorial

Links that are handy to us

• GitHub repo: https://github.com/jennybc/wtf-2019-rsc
• GitHub Pages site, served from that repo: https://jennybc.github.io/wtf-2019-rsc/
• Easy-to-type rstd.io short link to that GitHub Pages site: rstd.io/wtf-2019-rsc