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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)
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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)
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