The R-Podcast's coverage of rstudio::conf 2018 begins! I have the pleasure of speaking with Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen. You'll hear Romain's thoughts on the growth of Rcpp and the project that helped him become closer to the R community. We also learn about Thomas' journey to enhancing ggplot2 and the new packages he's developed covering network analyses and dynamic APIs from R. I hope you enjoy episode 23 of the R-Podcast!

Show Notes:

### Getting involved with the R Community

* Emily Robinson's posts: Building Your Data Science Network: [Finding Community](https://robinsones.github.io/Building-Your-Data-Science-Network-Finding-Community/) and [Reaching Out](https://robinsones.github.io/Building-Your-Data-Science-Network-Reaching-Out/)

* [Time to shine: Blogging and social media for introverts](https://www.johnmackintosh.com/2017-12-30-time-to-shine/) (John Mackintosh)

* [Making Peace with Personal Branding](http://www.fast.ai/2017/12/18/personal-brand/) (Rachel Thomas)

* [Advice to aspiring data scientists: Start a blog](http://varianceexplained.org/r/start-blog/) (David Robinson)

### Conversations with Romain Francois and Thomas Lin Pedersen

* Romain's site: [romain.rbind.io/](https://romain.rbind.io/)

* `Rcpp`:

* R Graph Gallery: [www.r-graph-gallery.com/](https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/)

* Calling Go from R: [romain.rbind.io/blog/2017/05/14/calling-go-from-r/](https://romain.rbind.io/blog/2017/05/14/calling-go-from-r/)

* Thomas's blog: [www.data-imaginist.com](https://www.data-imaginist.com)

* Becoming The Intern: [www.data-imaginist.com/2016/becoming-the-intern/](https://www.data-imaginist.com/2016/becoming-the-intern/)

* `ggraph` - Grammar of Graph Graphics [github.com/thomasp85/ggraph](https://github.com/thomasp85/ggraph)

* `tidygraph` - A tidy API for graph manipulation [github.com/thomasp85/tidygraph](https://github.com/thomasp85/tidygraph)

* Thomas' Patreon page: [www.patreon.com/thomasp85](https://www.patreon.com/thomasp85)