In this episode of the R-Podcast I have a conversation with my colleague Will Landau about his new R package drake that provides a powerful build system for analysis pipelines.  In addition we have a fun R community roundup, listener feedback, and a couple of package picks to give you a gentle nod and a fun way to explore interpolation.  If you have ideas for topics, questions, or other types of feedback, get in touch with me by heading over to the R-Podcast site at www.r-podcast.org, sending a note to thercast[at]gmail.com, or contacting me at thercast on Twitter.  As always thanks for tuning in and I hope you enjoy episode 22 of the R-Podcast!

Episode 22: Diving in to drake with Will Landau

The R-Podcast's coverage of rstudio::conf 2018 begins!  I have the pleasure of speaking with Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen.  You'll hear Romain's thoughts on the growth of Rcpp and the project that helped him become closer to the R community.  We also learn about Thomas' journey to enhancing ggplot2 and the new packages he's developed covering network analyses and dynamic APIs from R.  I hope you enjoy episode 23 of the R-Podcast!

Show Notes:

### Getting involved with the R Community

* Emily Robinson's posts: Building Your Data Science Network: [Finding Community](https://robinsones.github.io/Building-Your-Data-Science-Network-Finding-Community/) and [Reaching Out](https://robinsones.github.io/Building-Your-Data-Science-Network-Reaching-Out/)
* [Time to shine: Blogging and social media for introverts](https://www.johnmackintosh.com/2017-12-30-time-to-shine/) (John Mackintosh)
* [Making Peace with Personal Branding](http://www.fast.ai/2017/12/18/personal-brand/) (Rachel Thomas)
* [Advice to aspiring data scientists: Start a blog](http://varianceexplained.org/r/start-blog/) (David Robinson)

### Conversations with Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen

* Romain's site: [romain.rbind.io/](https://romain.rbind.io/)
* `Rcpp`: 
* R Graph Gallery: [www.r-graph-gallery.com/](https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/)
* Calling Go from R: [romain.rbind.io/blog/2017/05/14/calling-go-from-r/](https://romain.rbind.io/blog/2017/05/14/calling-go-from-r/)
* Thomas's blog: [www.data-imaginist.com](https://www.data-imaginist.com)
* Becoming The Intern: [www.data-imaginist.com/2016/becoming-the-intern/](https://www.data-imaginist.com/2016/becoming-the-intern/)
* `ggraph` - Grammar of Graph Graphics [github.com/thomasp85/ggraph](https://github.com/thomasp85/ggraph)
* `tidygraph` - A tidy API for graph manipulation [github.com/thomasp85/tidygraph](https://github.com/thomasp85/tidygraph)
* Thomas' Patreon page: [www.patreon.com/thomasp85](https://www.patreon.com/thomasp85)

Episode 23 - rstudio::conf 2018 Chats with Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen

Our coverage of `rstudio::conf` 2018 continues!  In this episode I reconnect with the first-ever guest of the R-Podcast, RStudio software engineer Yihui Xie.  In our conversation you'll hear about Yihui's journey since joining RStudio, his vision of how `blogdown` and `bookdown` could lead to a streamlined publishing worflow, and much more.  I hope you enjoy this episode!

Show Notes:

* Yihui's blog post: https://yihui.name/en/2018/02/r-podcast/
* Rbind project: https://support.rbind.io/about/
* The New and Improved R-Podcast Site: https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/27/r-podcast-website/
* REWORK: https://basecamp.com/books/rework
* blogdown: Creating websites with R Markdown (available online and print): https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/
* Keeping up with blogdown (Mara Averick): https://maraaverick.rbind.io/2017/10/keeping-up-with-blogdown/

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Episode 24: Yihui Xie Returns (rstudio::conf 2018)

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