. Cultivating Your Own R Ecosystem as a Solo Contributor
summary
Case study from a higher‑ed admin office shows replacing brittle Excel with R to handle million‑row files, recoverable by internal R package on shared drive that stores data definitions, plot themes for PowerPoint, and common functions. Workflow uses setup files to record Oracle report parameters, a dashboard folder of CSVs for Tableau, heavy inline comments when Git is unavailable, and parameterized R Markdown rendering to auto‑produce dozens of division reports, cutting repeated work dramatically.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:18Meghans Background
- 3:52Why Use R
- 7:36Accessing Data
- 9:37Dashboarding
- 12:09Comments
- 18:16Parameters
- 20:17Conclusion
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