Create and use a custom roxygen2 tag
This post was featured on the R Weekly highlights podcast hosted by Eric Nantz and Mike Thomas. You might know that it’s possible to extend roxygen2 to do all sorts of cool things including but not limited to: documenting your internal functions for developers only (that’s devtag by my cynkra colleague Antoine Fabri), recording your following statistical software standards (that’s srr by my rOpenSci colleague Mark Padgham), writing tests from within R scripts (that’s roxytest by Mikkel Meyer Andersen).
How your code might get rusty, and what you can do about it
Do you ever find yourself working on a codebase that has gotten a bit rusty over time? Or read an old script and have trouble understanding what it does? It happens to me regularly, be it code that I wrote myself, or code I was tasked with, such as the established igraph R package. In this talk, I share some of my strategies to suffer less when renovating a codebase, as well as prevention ideas to make future renovations less likely, or easier.
How to pronounce my name
My last name is Salmon like the fish and the colour, and you can pronounce it like that if you want. My first name, Maëlle, is derived from a Celtic word that means princess or chief. It’s pronounced “Ma-El” as “ma” in “macaroni” and as the Spanish “El”.