Tuesday October 3 and Friday October 6, 2017.
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Instructors: Pablo Franco
Helpers: David Wilkinson, Meghana Kulkarni, Miriam Yeung, Michael Silk, Luke Zappia, Lucy Liu, Himani Jayawardane, Maddy Kelly, Francisca Samsing, Thomas Teoh, Johnathan Pojer, Sadia Nawaz
The goal of this lesson is to teach novice programmers to write modular code and best practices for using R for data analysis. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and its array of third-party packages. The emphasis of these materials is to give attendees a strong foundation in the fundamentals of R, and to teach best practices for scientific computing: breaking down analyses into modular units, task automation, and encapsulation.
Note that this workshop will focus on teaching the fundamentals of the programming language R, and will not teach statistical analysis. If you would like help with your statistical analysis, you can contact the Statistical Consulting Centre for one-on-one consultations or see their flyer for details of statistical training courses.
A variety of third party packages are used throughout this workshop. These are not necessarily the best, nor are they comprehensive, but they are packages we find useful, and have been chosen primarily for their usability. These materials are a modified version of those used by Software Carpentry for their "R for reproducible scientific analysis" workshop: Greg Wilson: "Software Carpentry: Lessons Learned". F1000Research, 2016, 3:62 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.3-62.v2).
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop. However, if you have no previous programming experience, we recommend that you consult the course material for introduction to programming concepts workshop prior to attending the current workshop.
Where: Day One (2017-10-03) - COLAB (Room 329), Level 3, ERC, Building 171, University of Melbourne, Parkville;
Day Two (2017-10-06) - COLAB (Room 329), Level 3, ERC, Building 171, University of Melbourne, Parkville. Get directions with Google Maps.
Requirements: **Participants must bring a laptop and charger** with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating sytem (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on.
Participants are also asked to install R, and the RStudio IDE prior to the workshop (See instructions ).
Contact: Please email pablo.franco.dn@gmail.com or nicole.unimelb@gmail.com for more information.
Surveys
Please be sure to complete these surveys at the end of each day of the workshop.
09:00 | Introduction" |
10:00 | Intro to R and how to find help |
11:30 | Data structures |
12:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 | Reading and subsetting data |
15:15 | Functions |
16:45 | Wrap up |
09:00 | Setup |
09:15 | Plotting data using ggplot2 |
10:15 | Vectorisation |
11:15 | Control flow ("if" and "for" statements) |
12:45 | Lunch break |
13:45 | Writing data and figures |
14:15 | Dataframe manipulation using dplyr |
15:45 | Twitter Data |
16:45 | Wrap up |
Requirements: **Participants will be required to bring their own laptop and charger**
Wifi: If you're bringing a wifi device to the workshop, access to the wifi network will depend on whether you're affiliated with the Univerity of Melbourne. University of Melbourne staff/students can connect to the UniWireless network; instructions on how to do this and where to get assistance can be found here.
R is a programming language that is especially powerful for data exploration, visualization, and statistical analysis. To interact with R, we use RStudio.
Install R by downloading and running this .exe file from CRAN. Also, please install the RStudio IDE.
Install R by downloading and running this .pkg file from CRAN. Also, please install the RStudio IDE.
You can download the binary files for your distribution
from CRAN. Or
you can use your package manager (e.g. for Debian/Ubuntu
run sudo apt-get install r-base
and for Fedora run
sudo yum install R
). Also, please install the
RStudio IDE.