Back from rstudio::conf(2020) - My talk, Q&A's, and other conference experiences | /en/2020/02/rstudio-conf-2020/

yihui 2022-12-17 05:51:43

Back from rstudio::conf(2020) - My talk, Q&A's, and other conference experiences

https://yihui.org/en/2020/02/rstudio-conf-2020/

5 Comments

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:51:44

Guest *Liyun* @ 2020-02-09 00:56:10 originally posted:

I'll make sure to let you see the Golden Gate Bridge next time...

@cloudly

yihui 2022-12-17 05:51:49

Thank you! I'm much more interested in eating, so I was totally satisfied with the restaurant that you took me to. If you let me choose between a hot pot and the bridge, I'll definitely choose the former! :)

Originally posted on 2020-02-10 03:56:34

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:51:45

Guest *L. Collado Torres* @ 2020-02-11 04:14:32 originally posted:

Thanks for the shout outs Yihui! ^^ See you in 2021 =)

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:51:46

Guest *Aaron Simumba* @ 2020-02-11 07:07:01 originally posted:

Finally a new post on this blog. It has been months of continuous wait to pick your thoughts. Keep up the great work, always a pleasure to read your musings...

yihui 2022-12-17 05:51:50

Thanks Aaron! Hopefully I'll get a little bit more free time to resume blogging after I successfully hire someone to help me with the package maintenance work.

Originally posted on 2020-02-11 15:09:45

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 06:21:57

Guest *Aaron Simumba* @ 2020-02-12 06:48:39 originally posted:

Personally I look forward. Your blogs are packed with so much knowledge and general life experiences that I must say are too valuable for both professional and general personal development. Cheers to more blog posts!

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:51:47

访客 *Yue Jiang* @ 2020-02-12 21:03:11 写道：

人艰不拆！

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:51:48

Guest *artbrau* @ 2020-02-14 19:49:21 originally posted:

Loved your RMarkdown talk. You made jumping between output formats look so easy. In my experience I get hard to track knitr errors when I switch output but your talk gave me the resolve to figure it out. Thanks! If there were "Heroes of R" trading cards (and I wish there were, hex-shaped, of course) I would trade one Hadley for one Yihui even though their attack and defense points might be different.

yihui 2022-12-17 06:21:58

Haha, thanks!

I might have overdone it in the talk---usually it is not easy to switch among different output formats for the same Rmd document and still keep all output documents nicely formatted. I briefly showed this issue in the PowerPoint output in my talk (some slides actually looked quite messy). It is particularly hard to switch between a document format (e.g. an HTML page, an article, or a report) and a presentation format (e.g. Beamer, PPT, or ioslides).

To make it easy to switch between output formats, the content shouldn't involve (even slightly) complicated formatting syntax. Syntax-wise, the simpler the content is, the more portable it will be. In my talk, I used a relatively simple example. That was cheating to some extent. With a complicated example, I wouldn't have this freedom. For example, there is no way for me to convert a book into a nicely formatted PPT presentation.

Originally posted on 2020-02-17 15:49:57