This is a brief write-up of my satRdays Cardiff experience.
First - what is a satRday?
It is an awesome concept: attending an R conference organised by a local RUG on a Saturday.
The programme in Cardiff had parallel sessions - tough decision-making to pick between promising talks!
dplyr workshop
Kathrine Tansey kept us busy with a workshop on dplyr in the morning.
Packaging workshop
Heather Turner upgraded us on packaging.
💡 useful tips and workflow! Eager to apply what I learned.
➡️ Slides
Introduction to tidytext
Textmining with Nujcharee (เป็ด), applied to #metoo twitter data:
Package reviews with rOpenSci
Maëlle Salmon presented the review process of rOpenSci and then reviewed the review process using the force of textmining.
💡 Rigorous, but friendly reviewing process at rOpenSci.
More info on submitting a package for review here.
➡️ Slides
Airtable & R
Amy McDougall presented airtable (💡!) and the R interface airtabler.
Amy wrote a blogpost on this topic too (which I found through Locke Data’s write up here).
➡️ Slides
Lightening talks
Counting and weighing Penguins
Philipp Boersch-Supan telling us about the challenges of counting penguins (and apparently Rcpp helps).
Integrating command-line tools with R
Erle Holgersen: embrace the system() function for command-line snippets in R.
For example:
ls.directory <- system("ls -all", intern = TRUE)
💡 intern = TRUE is my new friend!
Other tips:
- use the command line functionality in
data.table::fread("") - make use of
tempfile()
git in five
Steph Locke gave git in a nutshell.
💡 Recommendation: use GitKraken as a GUI client.
tidy eval
Nic Crane explaining the basics of tidy eval and when it is needed (💡 functions!).
A simple Bayesian workflow
Paul Robinson presented his Bioconductor package dealing with proteins.
➡️ Slides
R-Forwards and R-Ladies Remote
Heather Turner presented two #rstats related initiatives.
R Forwards is an initiative to widen the participation of under-represented groups ➡️ looking for volunteers that take on tasks.
R-Ladies remote chapter: has monthly coffee breaks on slack!
Final remarks
👏 Kudos to the organisers! They paid lots of attention to details and did an awesome jexcellentaking everyone feel welcome!
✍️ Mental note to self: I should probably learn how to take pics at the right time + live tweet 😉
Further information
📁 Slides repo.
📘 Check out Maëlle’s blogpost on Sto rrrify #satRdayCDF 2018.
📘 Loads of info from the Locke Data team members.
#satRdayCDF on Twitter.
⏭️ Next satRday is on September 1 2018 in Amsterdam.
📅 Check all upcoming events.
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