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Y叔叔 YuLabSMU 2023-05-11

tidyverse火主要还是因为东家是Rstudio,要知道Rstudio各种会议和培训班的宣传力度很大的,特别是Hadley Wickham本身就是R社区的流量王。然而data.table凭借在速度上吊打tidyverse,在R社区里也是火得不行。作者们发现中国的使用者很多,想要为这个包做国际化支持的工作,首先想到的就是先把中文给支持了。于是首先在github上发起了提议:

Something I've been meaning to figure out for years & finally figured out. The hard part (setting up the po directory) is done -- the rest is the manual work of actually translating strings.


Before proceeding, I wanted to file this and get some feedback about whether it's worth to proceed.


I see benefits:

  • Extremely welcoming to the Chinese-speaking R community which is quite large and counts among its members several of our biggest contributors & advocates. Of course they (i.e. the contributors) all speak English just fine & understand the current messaging, but they may be (hopefully I'm not presuming too much here) more productive if they can get native feedback without the extra level of translation.

  • As near as I can tell, we would be the only of the top 100 or so R packages to offer translation to any language (none of them have the required po directory). This would make data.table a leader in accessibility and openness in yet another dimension for the R community.

发起人是Michael Chirico,在data.table包作者中排名第四。在推特上也进行了宣传:

没想到我的公众号也被拉出来溜了一下,于是我也算是加入了。Michael在推特上给我发了私信。我很乐意当个宣传员,为社区做点贡献。

如果你也有兴趣加入的话,可以给Michael写邮件(邮箱见下图),然后他会拉你进入Slack群组,和大神们混一个群的机会就这样悄然地来了!

最后我想来忽悠一下

在自己还没什么能力的时候,多做一些这样的公益活动,是可以给自己的简历攒一些经历的,是可以让自己成长的,是可能给自己带来机遇的。我帮统计之都校稿ggplot2中文版,Hadley写第二版的时候,我又帮他校了稿,所以你不管看第一版的中文版还是看第二版的英文版,你都可以在序言里看到我被致谢了。也不要问我对ggplot2为什么这么熟,那本书我自己也不知道看了几遍。Hadley还给我寄了一本签名版

我在MSnbase里做了什么?》这一篇文章我也介绍了我主动去联系MSnbase包的作者Laurent,后来我要去找地方读博的时候,我也是找Laurent给我写的推荐信,我找他写推荐信的时候,他问我要不要去剑桥加入他的实验室。所以说多参与一些无私贡献的事情,能让自己成长,也有可能收获一些新的机会。

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