Author: melliferrari

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: melliferrari. [This article was first published on Emma R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. R Forwards is an R Foundation task force that was originally set up in December 2015 to address the underrepresentation of women in the R community. An analysis of CRAN package maintainers estimated that fewer than 15% were women, and a useR! participant survey found that women were less likely than men to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: melliferrari. [This article was first published on Emma R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Date: Tuesday, 7th January, 2020, 10:30-15:30 Location: University of York, UK Forwards is the R Foundation taskforce on women and other under-represented groups and we are offering a free workshop designed for people who use R coding and want to learn more about creating impact from their code. It will cover package contribution ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: melliferrari. Many Biology students are interested in science communication or the public understanding of science and undertake projects in these areas. They often conduct surveys which include Likert-scale questions. This workflow will teach you how to set up a Google Forms survey with Likert scale questions, read the responses in to R and report on the results. It uses the packages googlesheets (Bryan and Zhao, 2018) and likert (Bryer and Speerschneider, 2016). These slides take you through the process. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Emma R. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: melliferrari. Earlier this week I had a lot of fun running a one-day workshop for the Royal Society of Biology titled “An Introduction to Reproducible Analyses in R”. It was intended to introduce researchers at all stages of their careers to using R to make their analyses and figures more reproducible. We ran the course because an increase in the complexity and scale of biological data means biologists are increasingly required to develop the data skills needed  to design reproducible workflows for the simulation, collection, organisation, processing, analysis and presentation of data. I believe developing such data ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: melliferrari. Learn to experiment with R to make analyses and figures more reproducible If you’re in the UK and not too far from York you might be interested in a Royal Society of Biology course which forms part of the Industry Skills Certificate. More details at this link Introduction to Reproducible Analyses in R 24 June 2019 from 10:00 until 16:00 The course is aimed at researchers at all stages of their careers interested in experimenting with R to make their analyses and figures more reproducible. No previous coding experience is assumed and you can work on your own ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: melliferrari. I’ve just started doing one of my favourite parts of my job – teaching a term of Data Analysis in R to about three hundred Bioscientists in their first year of higher education. My blog last week included a figure of their expected level of enjoyment: However,  I find they become very competent in both statistics and coding considering they start as complete beginners and this is only part of their degree programme. I also have a lot of fun with them. I thought would share their first workshop schedule. The aims of the term are: to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: melliferrari. I used DataCamp‘s excellent Introduction to R as Essential Prior Independent Study and found it made people a bit less worried about a term of R! I have a lot of fun teaching first year biology undergraduates but there are a few challenges in teaching data skills when they are not (perceived as) a student’s core discipline but instead required to carry out research within it. At this early stage in their higher education, Biologists can be surprised by the amount of their degree devoted to data analysis, reporting and presentation. In my introductory lecture I use polling ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: melliferrari. (with thanks to a student for sending me her attempt). This is a question I get fairly often and the answer is not straightforward especially for those that are relatively new to R and ggplot2. In this post, I will show you how to add different annotations to each facet. More like this: This is useful in its own right but can also help you understand ggplot better. I will assume you have R Studio installed and have at least a little experience with it but I’m aiming to make this do-able for novices. I’ll also ... Read More