Our colour of magic The open sourcery of fantastic R packages
summary
Argument: software feels magical when it grants power while saving pain, measurable by concrete design choices. Evidence: data.pasta (CRAN 2016) triggered a viral reaction; one‑function zaps (janitor style) remove keystrokes; interactive genies (mapedit) hand GUI geometry back to R; naming tongues (tidy data, dplyr verbs) map words to intent. Practical tools used: nonstandard evaluation, pipes, addins, curated defaults, devtools/R-hub for release. Amateur authors regularly produce these wins.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:35The meme
- 1:22What is magic
- 1:56Chapter 1 Our packages is magic
- 3:16Zaps
- 4:10Genies
- 4:46Tongues
- 5:54How are they creating magic
- 12:14Be confident
- 12:43The red zone
- 16:15The hex sticker
- 17:10Conclusion
- 19:03Advice
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