I’ve had a lot of time to think about my time as an RStudio intern. When I do, I usually end up with a few words in my head before I’m flooded with (good) emotions and struggle with finding the words to convey my thoughts. The last time I tried to write something like this went a little like this. What I can say is this: whatever you thought it was like working at RStudio, is (probably) true.
I have a love-hate relationship with Git. It took me years of following cookbooks and following strict set of commands to get a sense of how it works. I still have to spend time wrangling Git at times, but I’ve gotten to the point where I’m just annoyed, instead of scared. Here is the branching-squash-and-merge workflow I’ve been using at RStudio. Also, sorry I may be glossing over some of the Git basics in this post…
== operator in ROne of the cool things about working on gradethis (grader need to be renamed) is that we end up doing things that aren’t common in R (i.e., grading and comparing code). I discovered an inconsistency with the == operator when comparing (long) R expressions. A quick primer on expressions In R, you can create an expression using the quote() function. This is essentially the code that R will execute.
I finally got everything moved over to blogdown with the Hugo Academic theme. Thanks so much to Allison Hill, who ran the summer-of-blogdown tutorial for us RStudio interns. The transition was pretty seamless. Mainly because I didn’t really have that much content to move over. The biggest change was I had to commout my categories tag in my YAML post headers becuase they were causing the site to not build.
The main topics and events of last week were: Much git. Metaprogramming and non-standard evaluation (NSE) in R Four 1-hour workshops by Allison Hill on the summer-of-blogdown moving things over from jekyll will take some time So many of the random things I’ve tinkered with in the past have come front and center. As an educator, I know seeing these things again make learning and understanding them easier.
I’m still pinching myself about being one of the RStudio interns this year. It’s an unbelievable opportunity and I’ve been half panicked and fighting imposter syndrome since the announcement was made in March. My meeting with Greg Wilson on Friday (2019-06-07) went something like this: Greg Wilson: How’s the internship going? Me: I’m panicked, but really excited. Greg Wilson: Good. That’s how interns should feel. I’m working on the grader package (with Garrett Grolemund and Barret Schloerke) which aims to check code against a solution.