R Package DIY

Please welcome our speaker, Dr. Fonti Kar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Do you have a few custom functions on heavy rotation?

Perhaps you have a piece of code that you regularly share with colleagues? Maybe you want to include your analysis code alongside a publication? Why not put it all in an R package?!

This interactive workshop will equip you with the basic skills to create an R package of your own!

Participants should have:

1. a Github account;
2. the most recent version of R and RStudio installed;
3. the following package(s) and their dependencies installed: devtools, testthat, knitr.

Dr. Kar is an evolutionary biologist at heart but is currently working as an R package developer. She works alongside researchers to develop R software tools for the research community. Her interests include biostatistics, reproducible science, learning about the latest coding practices and teaching others to enjoy using R. She is the founder of UNSWcodeRs - a university R user community where students and staff can learn new skills and find coding support.

Please join us and learn together.