yihui/activities — Issue #16: a talk to be given at the computing group
Author: yihui
Created: 2011-10-08 19:08:25+00:00
State: open

animation:

- start with naive ideas and prosper as time goes by
- examples and demos are important
- prettier interfaces are better (saveHTML())
- avoid teaching people what is PATH; use automatic search
- names are hard

R2SWF:

- export animations as Flash

formatR:

- how not to torture other people's eyes with messy R code
- how Stat 579 students motivated tidy.eval() in this package
- present better documentation
- vignettes are important; LaTeX and Sweave can be way easier (LyX)
- the choice between = and <-

Rd2roxygen:

- for those who regret having written too many Rd files instead of using roxygen

roxygen2:

- the idea of in-line documentation
- ess: support in Emacs
- NAMESPACE

MSG:

- no more CD's with your book in the 21st century

iBUGS:

- motivated in Stat 544 by the long list of arguments in bugs()

fun:

- purely for fun

cranvas:

- many decisions to be made
- http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2011/10/three-lessons-from-jobs.html

GIT:

- version control
- GitHub: social coding

other issues:

- keep up with the latest version of R
- attach sessionInfo() with bug reports
- debugging
- user flexibility