R-Ladies Johannesburg (Eng) - Introduction to the {arrow} package - Nic Crane

Nic Crane gave us an introduction to the {arrow} package and showcased some of the packages main functionality - e.g. she demonstrated some of the really exciting things it brings to analysing larger than memory datasets in R.
She also talked a bit more generally about the Apache Arrow project and how you can learn more.
About our speaker:
Nic Crane is a software developer and a committer on the Apache Arrow project. They are passionate about developer experience, teaching R, and building cool things that super-charge data science work. Nic's been using R for over 10 years, and is currently working at Voltron Data (formerly Ursa Computing) and has previously worked as a data scientist, R educator, and Shiny developer.
Slides and Code Materials: github.com/thisisnic/intro_to...

[@multitaskprueba1]

Fantastic lecture! Thank you so much!

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🎉🎉🎉

[@haraldurkarlsson1147]

The code for finding the number of lines for each character can be condensed from using group_by, summarize and arrange with a single line of code: count(character, name = "lines", sort = TRUE).