R-Ladies Vancouver (Eng) - Programming with Tidyverse functions - Dr Tiffany Timbers

Hello R-Ladies!

Tidyverse functions were designed for their ease of use by humans, and are best known and used in interactive R coding, or as part of a literate code document (e.g., R Markdown) or script, where they are run in the global environment (i.e., not inside a function). Here they feel easy to use and powerful, as you can access things like column names as if they were available to you as objects themselves. However, this ease of use by humans is a trade off for “more work required” when you want to start programming with these. For example, when using them inside functions. In this short workshop, we will introduce what makes programming with Tidyverse functions challenging and how we can rise up to meet these challenges.

Dr. Tiffany Timbers is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Statistics and a Co-Director for the Master of Data Science program (Vancouver Option) at the University of British Columbia. In these roles, she teaches and develops curriculum around the responsible application of Data Science to solve real-world problems. One of her favourite courses she teaches is a graduate course on collaborative software development, which focuses on teaching how to create R and Python packages using modern tools and workflows.

*This workshop assumes you have used 2-3 Tidyverse functions and know how to write a function in R. **

Learning materials for this workshop can be found here: https://github.com/ttimbers/prog-tidy...