R-SIG

In the “R Special Interest Group” (R-SIG) we talk about all kinds of topics related to coding in R. It takes place every other week, so drop by if you’re interested!

Structure

Each session will focus on a specific topic/exercise, with a little input in the beginning, and a longer exercise part afterwards.

You also have the opportunity to bring in R-related questions which we will discuss in the end for 10 - 15 minutes. Please send them in the Friday before the next session.

A suggestion for a timetable we can loosely follow:

• 13:00 - 13:15: Input
• 13:15 - 13:35: Exercise time :)
• 13:35 - 13:50: Discuss exercises
• 13:50 - 14:10: Questions

Future Topics

Here a list of possible topics for the next sessions.

• tidyverse
  • Introduction
  • Data wrangling
  • Plotting with ggplot2
• Recap of “Advanced Basics”:
  • Own functions
  • loops
  • apply-family
• Package development and how it might be relevant for scientific analyses:
  • Own functions
  • Structure of projects
  • Testing!
• Code Review: How to improve code I (or somebody else) has written. You can send in your code, it might be a nice way of getting feedback you won’t get otherwise. (Code review is very common in programming, as it can be very helpful to get some feedback or learn about different ways of doing stuff).
• Coding Kata: The website Codewars let’s you solve different coding challenges.