This week was our introduction to R lecture. This lecture was a brief overview of what R is and how to use it, with the goal of making the newer R users in our community literate in R syntax. For this session users needed to have downloaded both R and R Studio. First we discussed […]
This week we discussed how we bring in data, forms of data, good sources for help, and some packages that pull in publicly available data. First of all, we talked about R Studio (https://www.rstudio.com/). R Studio is a great interface for using R and in addition it allows for some “point and click” methods of […]
Today we discussed the format of the R group and potential topics for the rest of term. The group functions in small 10-15 minute lessons given by group participants on specific topics. Topics of interest this term are: Mapping Graphing Survival Estimation Writing/creating packages Social Science specific packages Data management Bayesian Statistics We will cover […]