Workshop Information

by Julia, Breanna and Yesol

https://imci-idaho.github.io/2022-03-01-WhatTheyForgot <– The One True URL that links to everything!

🗓 March 1, 3, 8, 10, 2022
⏰ 2:00 - 5:00 pm (Pacific time)
🌎 via Zoom (Link provided via email)

Overview

This is a four-session hands-on workshop designed for experienced R and RStudio users who want to redesign their R lifestyle. You will learn holistic workflows that address the most common sources of friction in data analysis. We will work on project-oriented workflows and how to plan for collaboration, communication, and iteration.

In terms of your R skills, expect to come away with new knowledge of your R installation, how to maintain it, robust strategies for working with the file system, and debugging tools.

Is this course for me?

Have you been using R for a while and feel there might be better ways to organize your R life, but don’t know what they are?
Do you want to streamline your workflow for doing analysis and automating repetitive tasks in R?
Are you willing to get into the weeds of your R installation, project organization, error messages, and source code?

You should take this workshop if:

You’ve been using R for a while and you feel like writing R code is not what’s holding you back the most.
You’ve realized that you have more pressing “meta” problems that no one seems to talk about.
You want to know how to divide your work into projects and scripts, how to expose your work to others, and how to engage more fully in reproducible research.

You should not take this workshop if you are a beginner R user. We have created a list of minimal skills to help you evaluate this.

This course is less focused on actual code (but there will be coding), and more focused on best practices, your R set-up and other important aspects of R programming that are not often explicitly taught.

Instructors

TAs and special guests:

JT VanLeuven
Janet Williams