"Official" August 2017 Meetup

Agenda:

6:30 PM: Pizza and Networking
7:00: Announcements
7:05: Joseph Rickert - Some Interesting R Packages
7:30: David Hurst - Using the googlesheets package (https://cran.r-project.org/package=googlesheets)
8:00: Ari Lamstein - Beyond Popularity: Monetizing R Packages

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Joseph Rickert

Some Interesting R Packages

For the past year, I have been writing a monthly blog post on my picks for the most interesting new packages submitted to CRAN during the previous month. For example, have a look at June 2017 New Package Picks (https://rviews.rstudio.com/2017/07/26/june-2017-new-package-picks/). In this talk, I'll give some advice on searching CRAN for interesting new packages, discuss the criteria I use for selecting my monthly "Top 40" picks and highlight a few interesting packages.

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David Hurst

Using the googlesheets package

In this talk David will cover:
• general outline of capabilities with basic examples
• negotiating oauth on servers(A stumbling block for most people in the forums
• use cases with shiny
• use cases with pivots and google charts (See large dataset case (http://rpubs.com/dsdaveh/280034))
• related topics: googledrive (dev package) functionality (permissions etc.)

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Ari Lamstein

Beyond Popularity: Monetizing R Packages

This talk will cover my initial foray into monetizing an open source R package. In 2015, a year after publishing the initial version of choroplethr on CRAN, I made a concerted effort to try and monetize the package. In this workshop you will learn:

1. Why I decided to monetize choroplethr.
2. The monetization strategy I used.
3. Three tactics that can help you monetize your own R package.