Jim Hester

Jim is a software engineer on the Tidyverse team, with a background in Bioinformatics and Genomics. He is the author and maintainer of a number of R packages including covr, devtools, glue, readr and more…


rstudio::conf 2020

Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

January 30, 2020

Open source R packages on GitHub often take advantage of continuous integration services to automatically check their packages for errors.

rstudio::conf 2019

It depends: A dialog about dependencies

January 24, 2019

Software dependencies can often be a double-edged sword. On one hand, they let you take advantage of others' work, giving your software marvelous new features and reducing bugs.

blog

xml2 1.1.1

January 24, 2017

Webinars

Measure and report test coverage for R, C, C++ and Fortran code in R packages

September 23, 2016

measure and report test coverage for R, C, C++ and Fortran code in R packages

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memoise 1.0.0

February 2, 2016