R Language Tips package

[revodavid]

I have about 1000 tips I have posted to @RlangTip in an Excel file. What if we made them into a package like fortunes, where users could get an R tip on startup? The tips need a fair bit of cleaning and categorization first, but the ultimate goal is to set up an open source package with an easy process for others to edit and contribute tips via PR.

[angela-li]

Holy moly, that's a lot of tips! Sounds like a reasonably scoped package (and some NLP stuff too). Could be a great project at the unconf. I love the idea of folks submitting their tips via PR 💯

[emilyriederer]

Wow I want this package to exist so badly! Sounds like a ton of fun and I have to think “bite-sized R tips on open” would be a great thing for beginners. I wonder if there could even be some way to rate tips on how advanced they are and letter users pick which should display?

[maurolepore]

I love the idea of providing an automated system to seamlessly learn a tiny bit often. Someone said something like: "we don't rise to the level of our goals; we fall to the level of our systems" (maybe James Clear or him quoting someone else) .

This should also provide a little reward after restarting the R session, which is generally a good habit to encourage.

Maybe to make it more "hook-y" the reward should be variable? That is, sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't -- as in gaming machines and as in the praises after running tests with testthat).

[jimhester]

You could also use the twitter API to get the number of likes for each tip, which maybe could help it targeting the best tips or those that need to be reworded for clarity.

[revodavid]

We are working on this at https://github.com/revodavid/rlangtip