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#stayrelevant: How Santa Barbara R-Ladies keep up with changes in the R ecosystem
We’ve all been there –
Have you ever returned to an old R project only to realize that your code no longer runs? Perhaps your code still runs, but now you’re getting a bunch of “Warning: this function is deprecated,” messages in your console. Or maybe you’re working on a new project and want to download an exciting new package or feature, but your version of R isn’t compatible. Life moves fast in the R world – sometimes, it feels impossible to stay on top of the ever-expanding ecosystem of packages, tools, and features that make R so great.
Read moreR-Ladies Infrastructure for Online Meetups
Our chapters have cancelled in-person meetups due to the corona virus pandemic. However, we want our members to be able to stay connected and still share their latest R-related discoveries and journeys. To support our chapter organisers in moving their events online, we decided to provide them with video conferencing infrastructure.
Read moreRecipe for a year-end video
To close the awesome R-Ladies 2019 year we made a video, if you haven’t seen it yet, here it is:
Happy New Year to all #rladies and allies! 🎉🎉🎉
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Video put together by @yabellini & @_lacion_ , voice @AlejaBellini 💜💜💜 pic.twitter.com/QRxuJxLugj
IWD 2019 Twitter Action
Every year on March 8th, the world celebrates International Women’s Day (IWD). Although this date has different ways of celebration, it has one point in common - the fight for gender equality. The previous year, in 2018, an enthusiast R-Ladies’ group took the initiative for a massive project to tweet about all the profiles registered in the R-ladies directory, throughout 8th March 2018. In February this year, the year 2019, Yanina proposed to follow their lead and tweet about all the R-Ladies Chapters, throughout 8th March 2019.
Read more2. Behind the scenes of R-Ladies IWD2018 Twitter action!
As told by Kelly O’Briant
On March the 8th, International Women’s Day, we ran a continuous feed of awesome R-Ladies profiles from our directory via @rladies_iwd2018. It was a blast! And a lot of team work too! In this blog post, we’ll cover the deployment and monitoring stages of our project. You can also read the Part 1.
Read more1. Behind the scenes of R-Ladies IWD2018 Twitter action!
As told by Maëlle Salmon with notes from Bea Hernández
On March the 8th, International Women’s Day, we ran a continuous feed of awesome R-Ladies profiles from our directory via @rladies_iwd2018. It was a blast! And a lot of team work too! In this blog post, we’ll explain how we designed and completed our Twitter action.
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