drake-related project proposals

[wlandau]

Hi everyone! Several drake-related unconf project proposals are available here, here, and here, all labeled "Chicago R Unconference" and categorized by difficulty. Highlights:

• drakify **your project** wlandau/drake-examples#13. If you are working on a computationally intense data analysis project for your day job, we can work together to turn it into a drake-powered workflow. Could be a major win-win.
• First time contributing to an open source project? You do not need to know anything about drake to get involved. Issues Link to tensorflow-w-r in the README and vignette ropensci/drake#750, Link to tensorflow-w-r ropensci-books/drake#64, and List real-world projects outside this repo wlandau/drake-examples#14 are accessible opportunities to patch the documentation.
• Live walkthrough: CRAN submission process ropensci/drake#753. Curious about the CRAN package submission process? On Sunday, March 10, barring any last-minute surprises, let's submit drake version 7.0.0 to CRAN together.

[emilyriederer]

These sounds amazing, @wlandau ! You idea of demoing CRAN submission is brilliant! That's probably one of the least well-documented parts of package development that could use some demystifying.

[wlandau]

Accomplishments:

• @blistyg made a ton of progress on drakify **your project** wlandau/drake-examples#13. He added a new example drake-powered workflow for a real social science research problem. The runtime is long enough to motivate the usefulness of drake.
• @tjmahr fixed some substantial issues in drake itself (Filtering in the progress() function ropensci/drake#743 and Deprecate drake_cache_log_file() ropensci/drake#741) and joined the official list of drake contributors. He also began adapting one of his current behavioral research projects to use drake.
• @kangel09 fixed Link to tensorflow-w-r in the README and vignette ropensci/drake#750 and Link to tensorflow-w-r ropensci-books/drake#64, adding links to guidance on how to use drake and tensorflow together.
• We submitted drake 7.0.0 to CRAN: Live walkthrough: CRAN submission process ropensci/drake#753.