R-Curious?

Are you R Curious?

Been meaning to quit excel and learn R for ages but not managed to find the time? Or maybe you are just not quite sure what this R thing that everyone is talking about is? This is the workshop for you.

You have probably had someone say, “It’s easy to use R. Just type R.” Or “Oh, I just use the lm() function.” and thought, huh? Sometimes R users can trivialise the process of getting started.

In this workshop, we aim to equip new R users with the confidence to problem-solve their way through getting set up with R and RStudio, and importing and exploring data in R. Developed through discussions amongst RLadies who also teach and communicate, we aim to visit the biggest potential pitfalls of your first data analysis in R. From installation issues with packages, to different data structures, to beginning exploratory data analysis and visualisation in R.

Charles T. Gray is a tidyvert, PhD (meta-analysis) student at La Trobe, and reformed musician. She is a member of R-Ladies Remote and is known for her math advocacy work as a Mathbassador for Choose Maths http://choosemaths.org.au/charles-gray/

She is presenting the R-Curious workshop as an RLadies event at useR! 2018 conference in Brisbane in July (https://user2018.r-project.org/rcurious/) and when she RSVPed for the Sydney launch we jumped at the chance to have her do a dry run here in Sydney.

This is a hands on workshop and space is STRICTLY limited. RSVP asap.

No pressure, but if you have a chance, we’d appreciate it if you had a go at getting set up in advance.

https://github.com/softloud/rcurious/blob/master/explore/onboarding.Rmd

Don’t worry if you try and it gets frustrating; there is no shame in choosing to ragequit (an important sanity-preserving technique worth cultivating). We will cover installation as part of the workshop, but if some of you are set up, then you can help others around you.

This RLadies-Sydney workshop is proudly sponsored by the University of Sydney School of Mathematics & Statistics and the University of New South Wales School of Psychology.