Why R-Ladies

Why R-Ladies

• R-Ladies promotes gender diversity within the R community.
• R package contribution is predominately by (cis)-male.
• Diversity is a great step forward for science and the community in general. This is also true for the agricultural area where maintaining genetic diversity for food security is vital.

• What would you hope to learn from coming to R-Ladies?

• I would like to learn to develop tools in order to produce interactive presentations, tools for better workflow practices, and tools that will be useful in the context of teaching.

Introduction

This data set was obtained from OzDASL.

According to Rex Boggs:

I had a hypothesis that the daily weight of my bar of soap [in grams] in my shower wasn’t a linear function, the reason being that the tiny little bar of soap at the end of its life seemed to hang around for just about ever. I wanted to throw it out, but I felt I shouldn’t do so until it became unusable. And that seemed to take weeks. Also I had recently bought some digital kitchen scales and felt I needed to use them to justify the cost. I hypothesized that the daily weight of a bar of soap might be dependent upon surface area, and hence would be a quadratic function … .

The data ends at day 22. On day 23 the soap broke into two pieces and one piece went down the plughole.