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# 4A. Book RSE with R

hello Guest Hammond!

## Participants

- Luke Johnston (lwjohnst@gmail.com)
- Emma Rand (emma.rand@york.ac.uk)

## Notes from discussion

potentially two books: beginners + more advanced
Just beginning RSE - start to think like RSE 
chapter justifying/explaining approach
end goal is to make an r package thus steps to get there.
how to be a good contributor
soft skils as well as technical skills
unti tests
github actions

renv
targets/drake


One book on:
An introduction to RSE for R users (teaching) (in process - Luke)
- Thinking like a RSE
- end goal as an r package and steps to get there.
- renv
- how to be a good contributor, the culture of collaboration

One book on (reference-type):
- Convincing others of the utility of RSEs
- Basically The Turing Way for R

One book on (teaching material):
- Managing memory/Big Data
- Parallel processing
- access to HPC/cloud, non-R skills

One book on:
- Shiny products

One book on (teaching material):
- Designing APIs
- Being inclusive and beginner-friendly




