Intro to R mini-workshop

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New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI)

NeSI, The Carpentries, and SatRdays are joining forces to offer an intro to R workshop in Auckland!
 
The goal of this workshop 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, industry, and beyond for statistical analysis and graph generation.
 
(<A HREF="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/07/a-big-list-of-the-things-r-can-do.html" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Check out this link for a big list of all the things you can do with R!</A>)
 
In this half-day, mini-workshop we welcome attendees with little or no prior programming experience.  The lessons we will cover come from <A HREF="https://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-gapminder/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the Carpentries material </A>and include:
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<LI>Introduction to R and RStudio</LI>
<LI>Data Structures (only creating vectors with c())</LI>
<LI>Exploring Data Frames (“Realistic example” section onwards)</LI>
<LI>Subsetting Data (excluding factor, matrix and list subsetting)</LI>
<LI>Creating Publication-Quality Graphics with ggplot2</LI>
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Ultimately, the goal of this workshop is to get you feeling more confident in experimenting with R and provide an opportunity for you to meet other people in the Auckland region who are on a similar learning journey!
 
This half-day workshop is happening the day before New Zealand's first ever 'SatRdays' conference.  For more information or to register for that event check out the eventbrite page here: <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/satrday-auckland-conference-tickets-90924687187">https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/satrday-auckland-conference-tickets-90924687187</A> 
 
Prerequisites
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<LI>This is a Bring your own device event. Please bring your own laptop.</LI>
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<LI>
This lesson assumes you have R and RStudio installed on your computer. The latest version of R can be downloaded <A STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;" HREF="https://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</A>
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RStudio is an application (an integrated development environment or IDE) that facilitates the use of R and offers a number of nice additional features. It can be downloaded <A STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;" HREF="https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</A>. You will need the free Desktop version for your computer.
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</UL>
 
More Information If you have any questions or would like more information about this session, please email <A HREF="mailto:training@nesi.org.nz" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">training@nesi.org.nz</A>.

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