"My sense is that you need to build up a nucleus of people who know each other and who can network and support each other [in developing a proficiency in a technology with the complexity of R.]"—Hadley Wickham in an interview with Dan Kopf, "What’s next for the popular programming language R?" Quartz. August 17, … Continue reading A Community is Defined By Its Center and Not Its Periphery
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The tidyverse style guide
All style guides are fundamentally opinionated. Some decisions genuinely do make code easier to use (especially matching indenting to programming structure), but many decisions are arbitrary. The most important thing about a style guide is that it provides consistency, making code easier to write because you need to make fewer decisions."-Hadley Wickham, "The tidyverse style … Continue reading The tidyverse style guide
