R-Ladies Lancaster Launch!

R-Ladies Lancaster is ready to announce our first event!

Our launch event will include a number of talks about R, and there will also be plenty of time for networking over pizza! (Big thank you to H20.ai for sponsoring the pizza at our launch event).

Schedule:

18:00 - 18:20: Registration
18:20 - 18:30: Introduction to R-Ladies and the local groups
18:30 - 18:50: Nic Crane: Ten Steps to Becoming a Tidyverse Contributor
18:50 - 19:20: Pizza break/networking
19:20 - 19:40: Rhian Davies: A day in the life with R. A whirlwind tour.
19:40 - 20:00: Lucy Morgan: The rocky road to building my first R package
20:00 - 20:30 Networking/close

Nic Crane (Elucidata): 10 Steps to Becoming a Tidyverse Contributor
In 2018 I became a contributor to the tidyverse and realised that you don't have to be an R expert to get involved. In this talk, I will discuss why I was originally hesitant to contribute to open source, but how the R community made me realise my doubts were unfounded. I'll walk you through the stages of making a pull request to a tidyverse package and discuss my experiences of doing so. Whilst the focus of this talk is on contributing code, I conclude with the other valuable ways you can get involved, whether you've been using R for 2 weeks or 20 years. I'd love to make this talk interactive, so please bring any questions you have!

Rhian Davies (Jumping Rivers): A day in the life with R.
I've been using R for many years and at the moment it feels like I basically run my life in the medium of R. I'll give an whirlwind tour of a day in my life as an analyst and all the weird and wonderful ways R helps - and hinders.

Lucy Morgan (Lancaster University): The rocky road to building my first R package
I heard that putting an R package together was simple once you had functions that worked. I must have heard wrong. In this talk I’ll discuss a few of the difficulties I had in starting to build my first R package (you can then avoid these). I’ll also add a few tips from the package building process and demonstrate building a very simple package in R.

*** Venue ***

We're meeting in Room A076 of the Science & Technology building. This might be tricky to find, but there will be plenty of signs up. You can download a campus map:

https://github.com/rladies/meetup-presentations_lancaster/blob/master/admin/campus-map.pdf.

The star represents the room we will be in, and I have highlighted the main entrances to the building. Note that building is locked after 6pm. We will be around the main entrances from 6:00pm - 6:20pm to greet you and let you in, so please try to arrive promptly! If you are running late, please ring me (07805 871708) and we'll come and let you in.

If you need more or advice help finding the location, please get in touch.

Parking:
Parking is free on the University campus after 6pm. The closest place to park is Fylde Avenue or George Fox Avenue.

There are also very frequent buses to the University and an excellent cycle route.

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R-Ladies Lancaster is part of a global initiative, R-Ladies Global, designed to improve the gender diversity of R users worldwide and in particular, to improve the participation and experience of women in the R community. As part of the initiative, R-Ladies Lancaster will host a number of talks and workshops about the use of R. It doesn't matter if you never used R or if you are an R expert, R-Ladies Lancaster welcomes anyone with an interest in R.

Questions? E-mail: rhian@rladies.org