a talk to be given at the computing group

[yihui]

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