I am a historian of early modern Europe and currently a lecturer at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. My research investigates the significance of sibling relationships and inheritance in the development of early modern capitalism. I have been using R for approximately two and a half years to analyze and visualize historical data. I am the author of two R packages that should be on CRAN shortly. The opencage package geocodes locations and is written in concert with Maëlle Salmon and Daniel Possenriede, among others. I am also writing a package called debkeepr that integrates non-decimal currencies into R through the basis provided by the vctrs package.
January 30, 2020
The base R types of vectors enable the representation of an amazingly wide array of data types. There is so much you can do with R.
January 24, 2019
My talk will discuss how R, the Tidyverse, and the community around R helped me to learn to code and create my first R package. My positive experiences with the resources for learning R and...
