Programming with Tidyverse functions
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Hello R-Ladies!
Join us on April 28th for a workshop on Tidyverse functions!
Event Description: Tidyverse functions were designed for their ease of use by humans, and are best known and used in interactive R coding, or as part of a literate code document (e.g., R Markdown) or script, where they are run in the global environment (i.e., not inside a function). Here they feel easy to use and powerful, as you can access things like column names as if they were available to you as objects themselves. However, this ease of use by humans is a trade off for “more work required” when you want to start programming with these. For example, when using them inside functions. In this short workshop, we will introduce what makes programming with Tidyverse functions challenging and how we can rise up to meet these challenges.
**This workshop assumes you have used 2-3 Tidyverse functions and know how to write a function in R. (See below for resources) ***
About the Speaker: Dr. Tiffany Timbers is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Statistics and a Co-Director for the Master of Data Science program (Vancouver Option) at the University of British Columbia. In these roles, she teaches and develops curriculum around the responsible application of Data Science to solve real-world problems. One of her favourite courses she teaches is a graduate course on collaborative software development, which focuses on teaching how to create R and Python packages using modern tools and workflows.
Workshop details:
Date and time: April 28th, 2021 at 6:00pm
Webinar link: RSVP to view link
Note: Meeting password is embedded in the link after ?pwd
If you have trouble getting into the meeting, please message Jasmine
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General workshop information:
-Please expect a hands-on session in a friendly and laid-back atmosphere where we all encouraged to learn together.
- This workshop assumes you have used 2-3 Tidyverse functions and know how to write a function in R. Follow the links below for a refresher:
- Yuka Takemon's Base R functions tutorial: https://www.yukatakemon.com/post/rladies-functions/rladies-building-functions/
- Alison Horst's dplyr tutorial: https://allisonhorst.shinyapps.io/dplyr-learnr/
IMPORTANT**
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Have your computer and a steady internet connection ready
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If this is your first R-Ladies event, please take a moment to review our R-Ladies Global code of conduct: https://github.com/rladies/.github/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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Who is this allowed to attend the workshop?
Everyone is welcome to join us at our events and to be a part of our mission to empower gender minorities with the skills and knowledge to code in one of the top programming language in data science, which is R.
To fulfill this mission we do ask participants to respect a focus on the encouragement and support for women and non-binary people during our events.
See you there!
Yuka, Jasmine, Lisa, and Sayemin
