XIII. and Last Prague R meetup

Let’s be honest: most of the former speakers and participants of these meetups don’t use R anymore. Some of us still pretend to, others keep `R` icon on their desktop for sentimental reasons, and a brave few continue the good fight — mastering `%>%` and trying to remember what the bang bang does.

But before we all vanish into the warm embrace of Python notebooks, VS Code, or whatever Julia promises to become one day — let’s get together one last time to celebrate what R gave us. Or, for those who never left, what R is still giving you, against all odds and warnings from your CS friends.

### 🎤 Program:

Short, 5–15 minute lightning talks. Funny, sad, nostalgic — all welcome.
Possible directions:

• “R changed my career” (and then Python took it)
• “My ggplot was once retweeted by Hadley”
• “Shiny made my collaborators love me (and then hate me)”

To submit your contribution, just comment on this event or send me an email at **lamparna@gmail.com**

### 💡 To get you inspired... this is my story

• 2007: Wow, I can submit a package to CRAN and others can use it.
• 2012: I wrote a blog post about mining Facebook data — it got a wider audience than any of my research papers.
• 2013: I got a job in the US, most likely because my future boss liked that I knew some `ggplot2`.
• 2014: Shiny lets me send collaborators a link instead of a ZIP with 20,000 PDFs. Nice.
• 2017: My first `rstudio::conf` — it was SO good and funny.
• 2020 (March): Third iteration of our Tidyverse workshop. We finally got it right! What could go wrong? (Everything.)

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So join us for one last ride — part therapy session, part funeral, part celebration. Bring your slides, your memes, your war stories, and maybe even a `.Rmd` file that still knits. Let’s toast to R: the language that made us better data scientists, connected us to new friends, and left us surprisingly sentimental.