Events

Our main purpose is to serve as a drop-in help session for help with R and RStudio, but to keep things interesting we will briefly highlight a useful tool, function or package each week.

April 24th UQRUG Drop-in + Using R and RStudio on the HPC

Well worth it! Moving from a laptop to Bunya HPC

March 27th UQRUG Drop-in + Identify Data Problems using visdat

This month Nick will look at how we can use some preliminary exploratory data visualisations to identify data issues using the visdat package.…

February 28th UQRUG Drop-in + Webscraping with rvest

We will start by looking at some of the basics of scraping data from Bing results and Wikipedia (or any other webpage) using the rvest packa…

January 31st UQRUG Drop-in + Creating a CV / Resume with vitae

This month Nick will be going over how to create a CV/Resume using the vitae, rmarkdown, and tinytex packages, and then getting into our regular questions.

December 13th UQRUG Drop-in + End of Year Cool but Useless Competition

In this special End of Year edition of UQRUG we will be holding a competition to see who can create the Coolest and Most Useless R code (on the special date of Wed…

November 22nd UQRUG Drop-in + Cool but Useless + ResBazQld

In this special edition of UQRUG we will be at ResBazQld (at the special date and time of Wed 22nd Nov, 3-5pm). For our overview we will be looking at some Cool but Useless ways we can use R. From creating emoji art, to using memes in ggplot2, to playing sounds when our code is…

October 25th UQRUG Drop-in + Machine Learning

Do you want to learn the basics of machine learning in R and why it’s useful? Before the help session this month at UQRUG, Raimundo Sanchez will be providing an overview of…

September 27th UQRUG Drop-in + Parallelisation

Before the help session, this month Raúl Riesco Jarrín will be provide an overview on how you can make your code faster and more efficient with parallelisation using the pa…

August 30th UQRUG Drop-in + Basic Statistics

Before we jump into our help session for everyone to ask questions, this month Valentina will be going over running some basic statistical analyses using R.

July 26th UQRUG Drop-in + Quarto Reveal.js Presentations

Before we jump into our help session for everyone to ask questions, this month Nick will be providing an overview on creating HTML based presentations in R with Quarto and revea…

June 28th UQRUG Drop-in + data.table data manipulation basics

Before we jump into our help session for everyone to ask questions, this month Nick Garner will be providing an overview of the basics of data manipulation with data.table and its advantages compared to…

May 31st UQRUG Drop-in + Sending Emails from R

Before we jump into our help session for everyone to ask questions, this month Nick will be going over how to send emails through R using the knitr and RDCOMClient packages.

April 26th UQRUG Drop-in + Coding with Generative AI

Before we jump into our help session for everyone to ask questions, this month Luke will be going over using generative AI (mostly ChatGPT) to help solve coding hurdles, including tips, examples, and a whole project made…

March 29th UQRUG Drop-in + Websites with Quarto

Before we jump into our help session for everyone to ask questions, this week Nick will be briefly going over how to create a customisable website or blog in R using the …

February 22nd UQRUG Drop-in + Forms with Shiny and Googlesheets4

This week Nick will be briefly going over how to create a customisable online form in R using the googlesheets4 and Shiny packages.

January 25th UQRUG Drop-in + Dashboard with Flexdashboard

This week Nick will be briefly going over creating quick and easy interactive dashboards to display your data with R using the package flexdashboard (it’s surprisingly straightforward, and uses…

December 7th UQRUG Drop-in + Animated and Interactive Plots

This week Nick will be briefly going over creating animated and interactive plots in R using the packages gganimate and plotly.