Cultivating Your Own R Ecosystem as a Solo Contributor

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Case study shows how to go from Excel to reproducible work by creating a setup file that records report names, filters and where to find Oracle exports, writing R scripts that produce Tableau-ready CSVs saved to a single folder, and packaging shared functions and a PowerPoint-friendly plot theme as an internal R package. Uses heavy comments instead of Git, and automates dozens of division reports by rendering one parameterized R Markdown file into many PDFs.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:18Meghans Background
3. 3:52Why Use R
4. 7:36Accessing Data
5. 9:37Dashboarding
6. 12:09Comments
7. 18:16Parameters
8. 20:17Conclusion

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