This workshop follows on from Beginning R. It will introduce you to more of the R programming language. This will complete the introductory background in programming, such that you will have a strong foundation to enable you to complete later workshops in the series (e.g., Introduction to Data Analysis in R and Text and Sentiment Analysis in R). Topics covered in this workshop include string formatting, packages and CRAN, functions, data.frame, the tidyverse, and forward pipes (%>%).

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Advanced requirements/set up:

Note that you must have successfully installed R and RStudio onto your computer and verified it is working before attending this workshop, as we will be unable to provide installation support. Full instructions on how to install R and RStudio are here.

Audience level:

This workshop assumes that you are already familiar with R and have knowledge equivalent to that gained from the Beginning R workshop.

Learning Outcomes:

• What are R packages, and how can you find the ones that you need for your work?
• What is the tidyverse? What are the core components that you will need for data analysis?
• What are functions? And how can they be chained together via forward pipe (%>%)?

Speakers:

Dr Christopher Woods, Head of Research Software Engineering

Dr Matt Williams, Research Software Engineer, Jean Golding Institute

Left to right: Christopher Woods, Matt Williams

Dr Christopher Woods

Christopher is Head of Research Software Engineering at the University of Bristol. He founded the group in 2016, via an EPSRC RSE Fellowship. The group has grown to 10 members, and now works with researchers across the University. The group provides training in software engineering, data analysis and machine learning with thousands of attendances each year. Christopher was Joint-Chair of the UKRSE Association from 2016-2019 and a founding trustee of the Society of RSE. His background is in computational chemistry, working at the Universities of Southampton and Bristol from 1999-2014, primarily focussed on developing molecular modelling software.

Dr Matt Williams

Matt works in the Jean Golding Institute as a Research Software Engineer (RSE). Matt joined the University in 2016, coming from the University of Birmingham where he provided support for the LHC's world-wide computing platform. He worked to support the synthetic biology community at Bristol as part of the Advanced Computing Research Centre (ACRC). He has a strong background in Physics and computational modelling. He is especially interested in making research software more sustainable through the use of testing, version control and automation of processes. He leads the software engineering teaching team in the RSE group in the ACRC. Matt is the President of the Society of Research Software Engineering, working to support and promote software-driven research.

Advanced Computing Research Centre

The ACRC has helped establish Bristol University as a world-class centre for research and teaching in advanced computing systems. They deliver hundreds of millions of core hours to researchers across multiple supercomputers and manage Petabytes of research data.

This event is part of Bristol Data Week 2022, organised by the Jean Golding Institute. Running from Monday 13 June - Friday 17 June 2022, this will be our 5th annual Data Week; an interactive programme of speakers, training, and workshops, open to all and completely free of charge.

Keep up to date with other sessions happening throughout Bristol Data Week, on the Jean Golding Institute website, follow us on Twitter @JGIBristol and connect with us using #BristolDataWeek