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The R-Podcast
by Eric Nantz
The R-Podcast is a podcast for both new and experienced R users who want to learn more about using R to conduct innovative data analyses.
Episodes
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Episode 34: Enriching the Next Generation of R-Core Development
The R-Podcast has risen again! After sharing the story of my R adventures since the last episode, we focus on a very important initiative that could pave the way for the next generation of developers contributing to the future of R itself. I am joined by research software engineer Heather Turner...
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Episode 33: Shiny and JavaScript Wizardry With Garrick Aiden-Buie
Episode 33 of the R-Podcast continues our coverage of rstudio::conf 2020! I share my experiences from my e-poster presentation about the Shiny community, and have a great conversation with the very talented Garrick Aiden-Buie! We discuss his spectacular JavaScript for Shiny Users course, the...
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Episode 32: RStudio's Big Move and Kevin Ushey
rstudio::conf 2020 has officially come to a close, and the R-Podcast brings you the first of multiple episodes covering this huge event! In this episode, I share my perspective on the big news made by RStudio and my take on where this could lead open-source data science. In addition, I am joined…
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Episode 31: Data Science Education With R
The R-Podcast returns with a recap of the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2019 conference! In this episode, I share insights gained from an excellent panel discussion on the use of javascript in statistics, and I am joined by RStudio's education team members Alison Hill & Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel…
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Episode 30: The Origins and Future of RStudio With Tareef Kawaf
It's common knowledge that R has been at the forefront of leading innovation in statistics and data science. But one area that's not commonly discussed is how to build a successful business around R and open-source? In episode 30 of the R-Podcast, I am very excited to be joined by RStudio…
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Episode 29: Chicago R Unconference Recap
I am delighted to bring your coverage of the first-ever Chicago R Unconference in episode 29 of the R-Podcast! I share perspectives on many of the great projects addressed in this unconference, ranging from new metrics on machine text translations to an entire unconference toolbox. Be sure to…
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Episode 28: Tidymodels With Max Kuhn (Rstudio::conf 2019)
The R-Podcast's coverage of rstudio::conf 2019 wraps up in this episode, featuring a comprehensive conversation with RStudio software engineer Max Kuhn! We discuss his vision for the `tidymodels` ecosystem of modeling packages, lessons learned from continued development of the `caret` package…
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Episode 27: Get the {Gt} Tables! (Rstudio::conf 2019)
The R-Podcast rolls along with part two of our rstudio::conf 2019 coverage! In this episode I share the advice and tips I used to prepare my talk on Shiny Modules. Plus I sit down with RStudio software engineer Rich Iannone to learn about his journey from atmospheric science to creating a...
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Episode 26: The Podcast Trifecta (Rstudio::conf 2019)
Another spectacular rstudio::conf is in the books and the R-Podcast has tons of insights to share! We kick off our coverage with a three-podcast crossover as I am joined by Credibly Curious co-host Nick Tierny and Not So Standard Deviations co-host Hilary Parker! We discuss our impressions of the...
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Episode 25: Interview With Ian Lyttle (Rstudio::conf 2018)
Our coverage of rstudio::conf 2018 concludes with another great interview! I talk with Ian Lyttle about his personal journey to using R, the value that shiny brings in communicating with customers, and his new package to ease the pain of working with enterprise GitHub installations. I also…
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Episode 24: Yihui Xie Returns (Rstudio::conf 2018)
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...
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Episode 23: Interviews With Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen at Rstudio::conf
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…
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Episode 22: Diving in to Drake With Will Landau
In this episode of the R-Podcast I have a conversation with my colleague [Will Landau](http://will-landau.com/) about his new R package [drake](https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/drake/) that provides a powerful build system for analysis pipelines. In addition we have a fun R community…
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Episode 21: Talking Rcpp and More With Dirk Eddelbuettel
The R-Podcast concludes its coverage of [rstudio::conf](https://www.rstudio.com/conference/) by chatting with [R Foundation](https://www.r-project.org/foundation/board.html) member and [Rcpp](http://rcpp.org/) author [Dirk Eddelbuettel](http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/)! We cover a variety of topics...
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Episode 20: More Interviews From Rstudio::conf With Javier Luraschi and Garrett Grolemund
In episode 20 I'm happy to bring you more great interviews with members of [RStudio](https://www.rstudio.com) from [rstudio::conf](https://www.rstudio.com/conference/)! I had the pleasure of chatting with software engineer [Javier Luraschi](https://github.com/rstudio/) to discuss [Apache...
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Episode 19: Talking Shiny at RStudio Conf With Barbara Borges and Dean Attali
The [R-Podcast](http://www.r-podcast.org/) has landed in Orlando for the first ever [rstudio::conf](https://www.rstudio.com/conference/)! Our coverage begins with two excellent interviews: First I talk with [Bárbara Borges Ribeiro](https://github.com/bborgesr), software engineer at...
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Episode 18: Interviews With the RStudio Team
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](https://www.rstudio.com/about/)! In part one I have a panel discussion with JJ Allaire, Jeff Allen, and Hadley Wickham to get their…
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Episode 17: A Simply Radiant Chat With Vincent Nijs
The R-Podcast continues its series on Shiny and the first-ever Shiny Developer Conference by catching up with [Vincent Nijs](http://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/nijs/), associate professor of marketing at UC San Diego and one of the earliest adopters of Shiny. Some of the topics we cover…
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Episode 16: Interview With Dean Attali
Direct from the first-ever [Shiny Developer conference](http://blog.rstudio.org/2015/10/29/shiny-developer-conference-stanford-university-january-2016/), here is episode 16 of the [R-Podcast](www.r-podcast.org)! In this episode I sit down with [Dean Attali](http://deanattali.com/) for an engaging...
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Episode 15: Introduction to Shiny
Just in time for the new year is a new episode of the [R-Podcast](https://www.r-podcast.org/)! I give a brief introduction to the Shiny package for creating web applications using R code, provide some of my tips and tricks I have learned (sometimes the hard way) when creating applications, and...
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Episode 14: Tips and Tricks for Using R-Markdown
The [R-Podcast](http://www.r-podcast.org) is back up and running! In this episode I discuss some useful resources and helpful tips/extensions that have greatly enhanced my work flow in creating reproducible analysis documents via R-Markdown. I also highlight some exciting new endeavors in the R...
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Episode 13: Interview With Yihui Xie
It's an episode of firsts on the R-Podcast! In this episode recorded on location I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Yihui Xie, author of many innovative packages such as knitr and animation. Some of the topics we discussed include: Yihui's motivation for creating knitr and some key new...
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Episode 12: Using Version Control With R
This is not an April Fool's joke ... The R-Podcast is back once again! In this episode, I discuss the concept of version control and how you can get started with using the Git VCS right now with your R projects. Also I discuss a big batch of listener feedback, and highlight a couple of great...
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Episode 11: Reproducible Analysis Part 1 (Introduction)
Season 2 of the R-Podcast is up and running! This episode begins a multi-part series on reproducible analysis using R. In this episode I discuss the usage of Sweave and LaTeX for producing reproducible reports, an introduction to the capabilities of the knitr package (more episodes will be coming...
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Episode 10: Adventures in Data Munging Part 2
I'm happy to present episode 10 of the R-Podcast! Season 1 of the R-Podcast concludes with part 2 of my series on data munging, in which I discuss issues surrounding importing data sets contained in HTML tables. I share how I used the XML and RCurl packages to validate and import data from...
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Episode 9: Adventures in Data Munging Part 1
It’s great to be back with a new episode after an eventful break! This episode begins a series on my adventures in data munging, a.k.a data processing. I discuss three issues that demonstrate the flexibility and versatility R brings for recoding messy values, important inconsistent data files…
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Episode 8: Visualization With `Ggplot2`
I'm happy to present this jam-packed episode of the R-Podcast dedicated to using the ggplot2 package for visualization. This episode will have a companion screencast released in the next few days. I use data from the Hockey Summary Project to demonstrate how to create a series of boxplots of NHL...
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Episode 7: Best Practices for Workflow Management
Hello everybody, I am finally back with a new episode! In this episode: Hardware issues, major update to RStudio, new forums, and discussion on managing your workflow for projects. I discuss useful functions for executing R scripts and saving/loading R objects for future sessions, and summarize...
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Episode 6: Importing Data From External Sources
In this episode: Listener feedback and importing data from external sources into R. We dive into the basics of importing delimited textfiles using read.table and its varients. We also discuss recommendations for importing MS Excel spreadsheet files, relational databases such as MySQL, data from...
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Episode 5: Basic Package Management
After a brief delay here's episode 5 of the R-Podcast. In this episode: R 2.15.0 released, listener feedback, and discussion on basic package management. I discuss helpful resources for finding packages,installation procedures, and how to determine what packages are installed in your R system,...
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Episode 4: Data Structures - Introduction
In this episode: Site updates, additional screencasts about R from other sites, listener feedback, and discussion on the fundamental data structures for R: vectors, matrices, lists, and data frames. The R code discussed in this episode is available in our GitHub repository, see the show notes for...
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Episode 3: Basic Interaction With R
In this episode: New versions of R and ggplot2 available, listener feedback, and an interactive session with R. The R code discussed in this episode will be available in our GitHub repository, see the show notes for details. There will be a companion screencast to accompany this episode which…
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Episode 2: Getting Ready to Use R
In this episode: A couple of site updates, our first listener feedback, an overview of installing R on each major platform, and an overview of R IDEs and helpful resources for getting started with R. If you would like to provide feedback, please send an email or audio comment to...
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Episode 1: Introduction
Here is the inaugural episode of the R-Podcast! In this episode, I take a few minutes to introduce myself and to explain the main goals of this podcast. I also define what R is and give an overview of R's history of development and features that distinguish it from other statistical software....
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The R-Podcast is a podcast for both new and experienced R users who want to learn more about using R to conduct innovative data analyses.
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Eric Nantz
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