Introduction to R Markdown

This meetup will feature a few 5-minute presentations followed by a hands on R Markdown workshop.

If you're interested in giving a 5-minute presentation featuring your work in R (ideally related to the workshop topic, but we're flexible), please email sheila@rladies.org with your brief pitch.

What is R Markdown?
It's a R coding format that allows users to generate documents of all types (presentations, reports, books, etc.) with embedded R code and outputs (plots, tables, etc.). You can learn more about it here: https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/ .

Agenda:
• 6:00pm - 6:15pm - Networking & Refreshments
• 6:15pm - 6:35pm - Presentations
• 6:35pm - 6:45pm - Set up (install R packages, etc.)
• 6:45pm - 7:45pm - Workshop
• 7:45pm - 8:00pm - Wrap up

Who is this for?
Beginners are welcome and encouraged to join this event but please install the most recent version of R as well as RStudio on your laptop before attending this meetup event. Experienced R users are also encouraged to update their versions of R and RStudio as well as their R packages (in RStudio go to Tools > Check for package updates...). Here are links to free downloads for R (https://cran.r-project.org/) and RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download). Downloading and installing both of these programs before this meetup will help us keep to our schedule and make sure you learn the most you can while at the meetup event.

What should I bring?
Please bring your own (fully charged) laptop.

What about parking?
The best place to park for this event is the Bryan Center Garage on Science Drive. It is $1 for 30 minutes.

All events are intended for women as leaders, mentors, members, and attendees. We are emphatically queer and trans friendly. Men are welcomed to attend as guests and must be accompanied by the R-Lady who invited them. This group was created so those who identify as women have a comfortable place to learn. If you would like to attend and feel excluded, please introduce yourself to an organizer.