futuRe possibilities

futuRe possibilities

A series of workshops/informal sessions demonstrating the potential of R in

  • academic work

  • research

  • data science…

https://bb8765f66e6041ec984839e8dc3c2729.app.posit.cloud/p/846e0e40/#/title-slide

https://posit.cloud/content/6503790

What we hope to cover

  • Getting started

  • keep your data tidy

  • DRY WIT

  • Be more cat

  • Search and analysing literature in R

  • harnessing AI / ChatGPT

  • Visualization and GIS

  • RAPping and API-R-ing

  • Publish and be damned

  • Python, html, regular expressions, D3

What this is isn’t

  • A statistics course

  • A coding course

  • Compulsory

What is R?

  • A Statistical Programming Language

    • Coding

    • Syntax

    • Doing stats

  • Open source and free

  • A Data science toolkit

    • Data wrangling

    • Visualisation

    • Reproducibility

    • Functional programming

Getting started

You’ll need

R - https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/

RStudio (aka Posit Studio) https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/