Ropensci
Unconf

5. éve
~ hackathon
60 ember

66% academia
90% PhD
50% women
90% USA/Canada

many experience levels
 

Projects

2-6 people

mostly R packages
+ collect teaching materials

What I learned

don't be shy
to apply 

Hadley's view on package dependencies

future of broom

flippers > branches in base R

chat w Hadley about Clean Code & teaching

If interactive() 

what I worked on

Security

easy to do things hidden

• run code on install

• run code on package load

• run code stored in strings

• run any command line script

no real emphasis yet

relevance:

- shiny apps
- web services
- DB usage

audit if package is potentially dangerous

https://github.com/ropenscilabs/defender

capture network calls

check your machine for best practices

• defensive development

• safe logging

• best practices book

Lot more is needed...

parse nested json