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**The R-Podcast**

R is a free and open-source statistical computing environment. It has quickly become the leading choice of software used to develop cutting-edge statistical algorithms, innovative visualizations, and data processing, among other key features. R has seen tremendous growth in popularity and functionality over the last decade, largely due to the vibrant and devoted R community of users. Whether you have experience with commercial statistical software such as SAS or SPSS and want to learn R, or getting into statistical computing for the first time, the R-Podcast will provide you with valuable information and advice that will help you to tap into the power of R. Our intent is to start with the basic concepts that can be a struggle for those new to R and statistical computing. We will give practical advice on how to take advantage of R’s capabilities to accomplish innovative and robust data analyses. Along the way we will highlight the additional tools and packages that greatly…

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Episode 25: Interview with Ian Lyttle Mar 23, 2018

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Conversation with Ian Lyttle

Twitter: @ijlyttle | Github: github.com/ijlyttle
Ian's presentation at rstudio::conf 2018 recording: www.rstudio.com/resources/videos/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-firewall/
bsplus package: ijlyttle.github.io/bsplus/
shinychord package: github.com/ijlyttle/shinychord
ghenter package: github.com/ijlyttle/ghentr

Rstudio::conf 2018 takeaways and insights

Advanced R 2nd Edition new chapters:
- Expressions: adv-r.hadley.nz/expressions.html
- Quasiquotation: adv-r.hadley.nz/expressions.html
- Evaluation: adv-r.hadley.nz/evaluation.html
- Translating R Code: adv-r.hadley.nz/translation.html
lobstr package: github.com/r-lib/lobstr
Recordings from all sessions on RStudio site: rstudio.com/resources/webinars/#rstudioconf2018
Collection of presentation links: github.com/simecek/RStudioConf2018Slides/
Presentations by RStudio staff: github.com/rstudio/rstudio-conf/tree/master/2018/
rstudio::conf 2018 summary (Paul van der Laken): paulvanderlaken.com/2018/02/08/rstudioconf-2018-summary
Rewriting the R organism at rstudio::conf 2018 (John David Smith): goo.gl/rGfqip
David Miller's slides on rstudio::conf 2018: github.com/dill/rstudioconf2018-summary/blob/master/talk.Rmd
Recap of rstudio::conf 2018 (Colby Ford): www.blue-granite.com/blog/rstudio-conference-2018-recap
Highlights from rstudio::conf 2018 (Methods Consultants blog): blog.methodsconsultants.com/posts/highlights-from-rstudio-conf-2018/
lobstr package: github.com/r-lib/lobstr

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Music Credits

Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

Yihui Xie Returns (rstudio::conf 2018) Feb 15, 2018

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Our coverage of rstudio::conf 2018 continues! In this episode I reconnect with the first-ever guest of the R-Podcast, RStudio software engineer Yihui Xie. In our conversation you'll hear about Yihui's journey since joining RStudio, his vision of how blogdown and bookdown could lead to a streamlined publishing worflow, and much more. I hope you enjoy this episode!

Conversation with Yihui Xie

Yihui's supplemental post: yihui.name/en/2018/02/r-podcast/
Rbind project: support.rbind.io/about/
The New and Improved R-Podcast Site: support.rbind.io/2017/04/27/r-podcast-website/
REWORK: basecamp.com/books/rework
blogdown: Creating websites with R Markdown (available online and print): bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/
Keeping up with blogdown (Mara Averick): maraaverick.rbind.io/2017/10/keeping-up-with-blogdown/

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Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

Episode 23: rstudio::conf 2018 Chats with Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen Feb 03, 2018

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The R-Podcast's coverage of rstudio::conf 2018 begins! I have the pleasure of speaking with Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen. You'll hear Romain's thoughts on the growth of Rcpp and the project that helped him become closer to the R community. We also learn about Thomas' journey to enhancing ggplot2 and the new packages he's developed covering network analyses and dynamic APIs from R. I hope you enjoy episode 23 of the R-Podcast!

Episode 22: Episode 22: Diving in to drake with Will Landau Mar 26, 2017

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In this episode of the R-Podcast I have a conversation with my colleague Will Landau about his new R package drake that provides a powerful build system for analysis pipelines. In addition we have a fun R community roundup, listener feedback, and a couple of package picks to give you a gentle nod and a fun way to explore interpolation. If you have ideas for topics, questions, or other types of feedback, get in touch with me by heading over to the R-Podcast site at www.r-podcast.org, sending a note to thercast[at]gmail.com, or contacting me at @thercast on Twitter. As always thanks for tuning in and I hope you enjoy episode 22 of the R-Podcast!

Episode 21: Episode 21: Talking Rcpp and more with Dirk Eddelbuettel Feb 09, 2017

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The R-Podcast concludes its coverage of rstudio::conf by chatting with R Foundation member and Rcpp author Dirk Eddelbuettel! We cover a variety of topics including the state of Rcpp, how the integration of Rcpp in RStudio came about, and his perspective on Linux in the R community. Plus a new batch of listener feedback and a package pick that gives your shiny apps and rmarkdown reports a little more bootstrap polish. Enjoy episode 21 of the R-Podcast!

Episode 20: Episode 20 - More interviews from rstudio::conf with Javier Luraschi and Garrett Grolemund Jan 28, 2017

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In episode 20 I'm happy to bring you more great interviews with members of RStudio from rstudio::conf! I had the pleasure of chatting with software engineer Javier Luraschi to discuss Apache Spark and the new sparklyr package that allows R users to connect directly to a Spark cluster for high-performance data analyses. In addition you will hear from RStudio's master instructor Garret Grolemund to get his recommendations for teaching R and the highly-acclaimed R for Data Science book. All of this plus a package pick that could enable me to use R in my podcast workflow in episode 20 of the R-Podcast!

Episode 19: Episode 19: Talking Shiny at RStudio Conf with Barbara Borgis and Dean Attali Jan 12, 2017

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The R-Podcast has landed in Orlando for the first ever rstudio::conf! Our coverage begins with two excellent interviews: First I talk with Bárbara Borges Ribeiro, software engineer at RStudio about her journey to using R and her advice for developing Shiny apps. Then Dean Attali makes his return to the show and we discuss R's role in his graduate research and his experiences as a Shiny consultant. All of this plus a package pick that can give Shiny app users a helping hand. I hope you enjoy episode 19 of the R-Podcast!

Episode 18: Episode 18: Interviews with the RStudio Team Feb 22, 2016

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The R-Podcast concludes its series on the Shiny Developer Conference with a jam-packed episode featuring two interviews with members of the RStudio team! In part one I have a panel discussion with JJ Allaire, Jeff Allen, and Hadley Wickham to get their impressions of the conference and some exciting new features in the latest version of the RStudio IDE. In part two I have an extended conversation with Joe Cheng to discuss the origins of Shiny, how the conference came together, and ideas for future enhancements of shiny. All of this and more on episode 18 of the R-Podcast!

Episode 17: Episode 17 - A Simply Radiant Chat with Vincent Nijs Feb 05, 2016

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The R-Podcast continues its series on Shiny and the first-ever Shiny Developer Conference by catching up with Vincent Nijs, associate professor of marketing at UC San Diego and one of the earliest adopters of Shiny. Some of the topics we cover include his journey to using R, his motivation and process for developing the Radiant Shiny application used by his students to perform business analytics, and how he would like to involve the community to add new capabilities to Radiant. I hope you enjoy this episode and thanks for listening!

Episode 16: Episode 16: Interview with Dean Attali Jan 31, 2016

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Direct from the first-ever Shiny Developer conference, here is episode 16 of the R-Podcast! In this episode I sit down with Dean Attali for an engaging conversation about his journey to using R, his motivation for creating the innovative shinyjs package, and his perspective on teaching others about R through his support of the innovative and highly-praised Stats 545 course at UBC. In addition you'll hear about how his previous work prepared him well for using R, his collaboration with the RStudio team, and much more. I hope you enjoy this episode and thanks for listening!