Intro to Rust for R Developers

We’ve got 3 hours to cover a lot of ground! My goal is to get you all to a place where you can begin to write vectorized code by the end of the day.

I’ve prepared more content than I think we can actually cover—let’s prove me wrong!

I’m going to skip a bunch of content that would be considered “foundational” Rust like HashMaps and traits. My goal is to get you to write usable code without having to feel like you’re getting a CS degree.

Timeline

This is the conservative timeline for the workshop. So long as we make it to “Mapping over iterators” we will be in good shape for the next workshop!

Section	Duration	End time
Intro & Why Rust	0:15	9:15 AM
Hello, world!	0:10	9:25 AM
Primitive Types	0:10	9:35 AM
Control Flow	0:10	9:45 AM
Break	0:05	9:50 AM
Arrays & Vectors	0:10	9:55 AM
for loops	0:10	10:05 AM
Mutability	0:10	10:15 AM
Mutable Vectors	0:10	10:25 AM
Functions	0:10	10:35 AM
Ownership	0:10	10:45 AM
Break	0:10	10:55 AM
Iterators	0:15	11:10 AM
Mapping over Iterators	0:15	11:25 AM
Defining Structs	0:10	11:35 AM
Struct Methods	0:10	11:45 AM
Enumerations	0:10	11:55 AM
Options	0:10	12:05 PM
Closing	0:05	12:10 PM