posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Fundamentals of Package Development

Hi, my name is Andy Tucher and I'm a Package Developer Educator on the tidyverse team at Posit. I'll be teaching a workshop at the upcoming Posit Conf in Chicago called Fundamentals of Package Development and I wanted to give you the top three reasons why I think you might want to join us at the workshop.

Getting started with package development

The first is just getting started. You might have an idea for a package already but don't really know where to start or you might have done some package development before but feel like you could use some help being a bit more efficient about it. The workshop will be an interactive and hopefully fun run through of the package development process. We'll be live coding together and building an R package from scratch and along the way learning the basic moving parts of an R package.

Learning good and easy practices

The second reason is to learn good and easy practices. You'll learn the tools and techniques that the tidyverse team have developed and use in their day to day work. These practices really smooth off the rough edges of the package development process and help prevent you from many of the common pitfalls you might encounter. They are designed to help you fall into a pit of success instead. Using these tools helps you build a workflow that gets the esoteric details of package structure out of the way and helps you focus on the content.

They are designed to help you fall into a pit of success instead.

Taking the next step in R

And third, just to help you get better at R. You might simply be looking for that next step in your R programming journey and want to build some new skills. If you feel like you've plateaued in developing your R skills, learning package development can be a great next step in moving along in the continuum from data analysis to building tools for yourself and other people and also to start to learn how and when to apply software engineering principles to your work.

So if any of these points or all of these points resonate with you, I hope that you'll join us at our workshop at conf and I hope to see you there. Thanks.