Highlights from RStudio Global 2021

Personal takeaways from this year’s RStudio conference

This year’s RStudio conference was free, virtual, and 24 hours long. It was awesome! Here are five personal takeaways from this year’s conference.

1. R4DS Learning Community has several book clubs that folks have formed. They are a great way to get yourself motivated and get through an R book that would otherwise just sit on your bookshelf. They have a Slack channel and a Github. Check out their Advanced R bookclub and consider starting your own there. Here’s the Github link: https://github.com/r4ds
2. Learning what went wrong is a great way to learn deeply and test your understanding. Accidental aRt twitter shows great examples of how accidents turn into aRt: https://twitter.com/accidental__art?lang=en
3. Start a blog! Share your code! Maybe try by sharing what you learned with the world. Today I learned = TIL. Try out a TIL blog post with some code incorporated in it. Get started and you’ll feel less anxious with time. It might even open up opportunities you would never have imagined before.
4. Identify and solve pain points when searching for a new project. If you’re having issues with it, it’s likely many other folks are. It can be an opportunity to generate value for the community of users.
5. The code might not have changed but the world might have changed around it. You gotta change your lightbulbs sometimes. Maintain your house, maintain your code.

Videos from the virtual conference will get posted by RStudio here: https://rstudio.com/resources/