Research Software London Software Carpentry workshop (R syllabus)

Research Software Londonis a regional community for researchers in London and the South East who write or use scientific software or want to improve their technical computing skills and knowledge.We aim to improve the quality of scientific software built within our region resulting in more sustainable, reliable and maintainable research software which can support higher quality research outputs. We are an open community that welcomes anyone who wants to participate in or feels that they can contribute to, or learn from, our research software activities.

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Software Carpentry workshop run by Research Software London covering Bash shell, Git and R programming

This is one of two &quot;regional software carpentry&quot; workshops to be run by the Research Software London (RSLondon) community in May 2021. RSLondon is a community for researchers, RSEs and developers based at institutions in London and the South East of England. This workshop will consist of a group of sessions taking place on the 20th, 21st and 25th-27th May 2021 and cover an R-based software carpentry syllabus. The other workshop being organised by RSLondon, running in parallel with this workshop, will cover a Python syllabus. You can find details of the Python workshop <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-software-london-software-carpentry-workshop-with-python-tickets-152004953909" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.This workshop will cover use of the Bash shell (20th May), source code version control with Git (21st May) and using R for reproducible scientific analysis (sessions on 25th, 26th and 27th May). The first two sessions will each be in two parts, from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 16:00. The final three sessions will be half-day sessions (morning or afternoon). The full schedule is as follows:&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Thu 20th May&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;10:00-12:00, 14:00-16:00&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Bash shell&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Fri 21st May&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;10:00-12:00, 14:00-16:00 &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Version control with Git&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Tue 25th May&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;14:00-17:00&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;R programming (part 1)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Wed 26th May&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;14:00-17:00&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;R programming (part 2)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Thu 27th May&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;14:00-17:00&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt; R programming (part 3)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;The workshop is being organised and run jointly by a team of instructors and helpers from Imperial College London, Queen Mary University of London, UCL and University of Westminster.Full details of the workshop, including the syllabus, schedule and prerequisites, are available at: <a href="https://rslondon.github.io/2021-05-20-rslondon-R/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://rslondon.github.io/2021-05-20-rslondon-R/</a>. Please note that you need to follow the setup instructions towards the bottom of this page in advance of the workshop to ensure that you have a suitable system setup and the necessary software installed.The <a href="https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Carpentries Code of Conduct</a> applies to this event.

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