This intermediate R workshop is all about making it easier to run,
reuse, and share R code by writing scripts! We’ll cover what scripts
are, how to organize code in a script, how to make scripts executable,
how to handle inputs and outputs, and how to reuse functions from one
script in another. In order to make sure you and others you share your
scripts with can run them, we’ll also cover how to manage installed
packages and their versions with R’s built-in functions and the “renv”
package. The workshop will end with a brief discussion of what to do
next if you want to turn your scripts into fully-fledged R packages.
This workshop is NOT an introduction to R
and is intended for motivated intermediate to advanced learners from all
domains at UC Davis who want to hone their R skills. Please make sure
you meet the prerequisites before registering as we will be unable to
answer introductory R questions during this session. (Want to brush up
on R? Check out our R Basics 4-part introductory series.)
Prerequisites: Participants must have taken DataLab’s “R Basics” workshop series
and/or have prior experience using R, be comfortable with basic R
syntax, and have the latest versions of R and RStudio pre-installed and
running on their laptops.
Instructor: Nick Ulle is a statistician and computer scientist. Prior to DataLab he
was a visiting assistant professor of Statistics at UC Berkeley, where
he designed and taught courses in data science. During his PhD in
Statistics at UC Davis, he developed source code analysis techniques for
the R programming language. His research interests include statistical
computing, programming languages, data visualization, and pedagogy.
