What They Forgot To Teach You About R

posit::conf(2024)

by E. David Aja + Shannon Pileggi

rstats.wtf

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🗓️ August 12, 2024
⏰ 09:00 - 17:00
🏨 ROOM TBD
✍️ pos.it/conf

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Description

This 1 day What They Forgot (WTF) To Teach You About R workshop is for experienced R and RStudio users who want to better understand R execution via debugging and personal R administration. At the conclusion of the workshop you will have distinct strategies for debugging your own code versus someone else's code, as well as strategies for maintaining your R installation through the lens of reproducibility.

Audience

This course is for you if you:

• Have you been using R for a while and you want a deeper understanding of what code is executing when and where it is coming from.
• Want strategies for overcoming roadblocks when when all else has failed in function execution or package installation.
• Are willing to get into the weeds of your R installation, project organization, error messages, and source code.

Prework

1. Please have two recent versions of R installed, as well as a recent version of RStudio:

• one version of R >= 4.1 & R < 4.4
• one version of R >= 4.4
• RStudio >= 2024.04.1+748

You can find older versions of R at this link for Windows (click on the .exe file to install), at this link for Intel Macs, and at this link for M-series Macs.

See the discussion in Install or upgrade R and RStudio: https://happygitwithr.com/install-r-rstudio.html#install-r-rstudio

2. Install the following packages: install.packages(c("tidyverse", "rmarkdown", "usethis", "fs", "here", "renv", "devtools"))

3. Install rig: https://github.com/r-lib/rig

4. Please make sure your system is ready to build packages. You can confirm this by checking if devtools::has_devel() returns Your system is ready to build packages!. If this returns Could not find tools necessary to compile a package this indicates your system needs additional tools - please see https://rstats-wtf.github.io/wtf-personal-radmin-slides/#/how-to-get-the-tools to identify what to install for your OS.

Schedule

Time	Activity	Instructor
09:00 - 10:30	Introduction, Debugging	Shannon Pileggi
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Debugging	Shannon Pileggi
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00	Personal R Administration	E. David Aja
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00	Personal R Administration	E. David Aja

Instructor(s)

Shannon Pileggi (she/her) is a Lead Data Scientist at The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium, a frequent blogger, and a member of the R-Ladies Global leadership team. She enjoys automating data wrangling and data outputs, and making both data insights and learning new material digestible.

E. David Aja is a Solutions Engineer at Posit. Before joining Posit, he worked as a data scientist in the public sector.

Completion survey

At the conclusion of the workshop, please submit https://pos.it/conf-workshop-survey.

Your feedback is crucial! Data from the survey informs curriculum and format decisions for future conf workshops, and we really appreciate you taking the time to provide it.

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