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Alison Hill, Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Assistant Director of OHSU’s Center for Spoken Language Understanding @apreshill @apreshill https://alison.rbind.io/ Slides: http://bit.ly/cascadiarconf-magic BIG MAGIC WITH R: CREATIVE LEARNING BEYOND FEAR

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2 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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3 My inspiration today! Image credits: https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/

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4 Who am I? • Use R every day • Self-taught

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pre-tidyverse

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8 Who am I? • Use R every day • Self-taught • Taught > 100 MS + PhD students

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9 Who are you? • R curious? R beginner? Advanced user? • Use R every day? Every week?

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Do your job better Get a ^ job Why are we all here? better

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Courage Enchantment Permission Persistence Trust

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COURAGE

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COURAGE IS A PLAN

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TIDY COURAGE

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TIDY COURAGE

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Introduction to the Tidyverse By David Robinson https://www.datacamp.com/courses/introduction-to-the-tidyverse “Learn R, in R” http://swirlstats.com/students.html INTERACTIVE COURAGE

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BASE R COURAGE https://nostarch.com

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23 All-purpose courage • Package reference docs (usage / arguments / examples) • Package vignette • GitHub README • Is there an RStudio Cheatsheet? (https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/) • Are there Stat545 materials by Jenny Bryan? (http://stat545.com) • Is there a roundup by Mara Averick? (https://maraaverick.rbind.io/tags/roundups/) • RWeekly “R Tutorials”: https://rweekly.org/#Tutorials

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IDEAS WORDS R

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IDEAS WORDS R

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27 NO COURAGE, NO PLAN

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28 COURAGEOUS PLANNER

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ENCHANTMENT

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ENCHANTMENT IS THE JOY OF WORKING WITH CODE THAT JUST WORKS

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“It’s not magic; it’s code.” — Ben Welsh, L.A. Times Data Editor

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DO NOT JUST READ CODE* *Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58.

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Use #comments and ? ?function_name Description Usage Arguments

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REPETITION IS POWERFUL

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IDEAS WORDS R

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IDEAS WORDS R

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44 ADDING ENCHANTMENT

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45 JUST ENOUGH ENCHANTMENT

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PERMISSION

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“Your [work] not only doesn’t have to be original…it also doesn’t have to be important.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

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49 Find projects to copy • RWeekly “R in the Real World”: https://rweekly.org/#RintheRealWorld • Julia Silge (Data Scientist, Stack Overflow) https://juliasilge.com • Dave Robinson (Data Scientist, DataCamp) http://varianceexplained.org • Maëlle Salmon (ROpenSci, LockeData) http://www.masalmon.eu • Lucy and Nick (Vandy biostats students) http://livefreeordichotomize.com

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CHOOSE WISELY

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NOT YOUR STYLE

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NOT YOUR PROBLEM

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NOT YOUR LEVEL (YET!)

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IDEAS WORDS R

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IDEAS WORDS R Your

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58 PERMISSION TO TRY FOR THIS

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59 PERMISSION TO FEEL LIKE THIS

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PERSISTENCE

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“For most of history people just made things, and they didn’t make such a big freaking deal about it.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

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Hilary Parker https://hilaryparker.com/2013/01/30/hilary-the-most-poisoned-baby-name-in-us-history/

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Julia Silge https://juliasilge.com/blog/my-baby-boomer-name/

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Monica Gerber http://www.monicagerber.com/2018/03/little-bit-of-monica/

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Brooke Watson https://blog.brooke.science/posts/the-us-of-bey/

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Problem: The data are in Wikipedia tables I need to scrape!

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Problem: The data are in Wikipedia tables I need to scrape! Solution: Learn rvest

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New Problem: I need to scrape the same table for all 8 series!

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New Problem: I need to scrape the same table for all 8 series! Solution: Add purrr

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76 My purrrlist • Jennifer Thompson’s R-Ladies Intro: https://github.com/jenniferthompson/RLadiesIntroT oPurrr • Jenny Bryan’s tutorial: https://jennybc.github.io/purrr-tutorial/ • Charlotte Wickham’s tutorial: https://github.com/cwickham/purrr-tutorial • RStudiopurrr cheatsheat: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/blob/maste r/purrr.pdf • Colin Fay’s purrr blog series: http://colinfay.me/tags/purrr/ • Mara Averick’s roundup of “purrr-ty posts”: https://maraaverick.rbind.io/2017/09/purrr-ty-posts/

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IDEAS WORDS R

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IDEAS WORDS R Your

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You aren’t doing it wrong if no one knows what you are doing

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TRUST

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83 Trust • GitHub: https://github.com – Open an account – You will need this: http://happygitwithr.com • Your own website – My recommendation (obvious, biased): use blogdown – You will need this: https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/ • A friend! – Make sure someone else at your code! – Ideas: • Partner up with someone in your team / lab / company • Find a coding partner at your local R Meet-up or R-Ladies group • Ask the #rstats twitterverse!

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https://edwinth.github.io/blog-new-things/

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86 Up & running with blogdown https://alison.rbind.io/post/up-and-running-with-blogdown/

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https://amber.rbind.io/blog/2016/12/19/creatingsite/

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Where are we?

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X I don’t know X, but I know I can figure it out…

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X Courage Enchantment Permission Persistence TRUST!

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X Courage Enchantment Permission Persistence TRUST!

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93 Learning should not feel like this

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94 Learning should feel like this

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