Thread by @travisgerke

I took notes in tired/wired format from the *incredible* #rstudioconf workshop "What they forgot to teach you about R" by @JennyBryan and @jimhester_. Here are some highlights, in case useful for others.

Tired: Use absolute paths or 💀 setwd() 💀
Wired: Use here::here()

Tired: Search and browse for an .Rproj to open with Mac Spotlight.
Wired: Prioritize .Rproj files for immediate open/actions with alfredapp.com

Tired: “my tired wired notes.Rmd”
Wired: “2019-01-15_Notes-from-WTF-workshop.Rmd” (for file names: use IS0 8601 dates, separate fields by “_”, separate words within fields by “-“)

Tired: Load R scripts with source()
Wired: Load R scripts with callr github.com/r-lib/callr

Tired: Use standard fonts in Rstudio
Wired: Use FiraCode (gives you the fancy assignment arrow) github.com/tonsky/FiraCod…

Tired: Inspect an object with class()
Wired: Inspect an object with str()

Tired: Use traceback() + browser() for debugging (*not that tired, still a good way)
Wired: Set options(error = recover) then jump around through the traceback with “s”

Tired: Use plain old Terminal
Wired: Use oh-my-zsh github.com/robbyrussell/o…

Tired: Download R files from CRAN to look at source code
Wired: Use @jimhester_'s lookup package github.com/jimhester/look…

Tired: Do a lot of clicking to set up GitHub repos within RStudio (*not really tired, still a solid strategy)
Wired: Do it with usethis

Tired: Launch vanilla R as if you’re not an opinionated monster
Wired: Make R respect all your quirks via .Rprofile and .Renviron *and* track these files in GitHub for use on multiple machines

Tired: brew install R
Wired: brew cask install r-app

Tired: a new commit which should have been part of the previous commit
Wired: git commit --amend

Tired: Lots of code tinkering to figure what the heck is embedded in a complicated list
Wired: View(listObj) in Rstudio

Tired: Read my notes
Wired: Read the sources: rstd.io/wtf-2019-rsc :: happygitwithr.com :: whattheyforgot.org