Alaska R User Group Conference

rstudio:conf 2022

Agenda:

  • R News and Highlights
  • My talk + Experience
  • Cool resources

🔔 News

  • Rstudio is now Posit
  • Shiny supports Python
  • Quarto is here

Rstudio ➡️ Posit

🔆 Shiny News

  • Shiny supports Python
  • Shiny UI Builder
  • Shiny via python in browser (no server at all needed)

✨ Quarto’s Big Debut

  • Quarto is here and it’s extremely powerful
  • Feels like writing Rmarkdown and indeed it supports the vast majority of what most poeple have been doing

Takeaways

  • Excitement around Shiny is huge
  • Github Actions are awesome
  • Rstudio/Posit are betting on a multi-lingual future
  • R people are universally great

My Talk Experience

Why should you speak at R/data conferences?

  • Conferences are more fun when you speak
  • Just find some fun angle
  • Super welcoming crowd
  • The best talks have very little code

Resources

Talks

You can view all of the recorded talks here:

Recorded Talks

Quarto Resources

Quarto Resources

Awesome Quarto

Github Actions

Thanks!