UQRUG 15

meeting
Published

April 19, 2021

2021-04-19: UQRUG 15

Participants

  • Stéphane Guillou (Library): I’d like start working on a package to query the MusicBrainz API
  • Catherine Kim (Library/Biology): Write a function to automate coral reef image download from US NOAA database CoRIS. Cleaning up code for sharing.
  • Rene Erhardt (Pharmacy): beginner, just listening…
  • Andy Cui (Engineering): First time attendance with aim of reshaping spectral data for visualisation purposes
  • Rhiannon Jeans (Neuroscience): First time attending the meeting but not new to R. Looking to help others or learn from others.
  • …

TidyTuesday datasets

See if you find an interesting dataset to play with: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday#datasets

Share code and pictures here!

Shared resources

  • R Markdown news: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/04/15/2021-spring-rmd-news/
  • reshape2 tutorial: https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/long-wide-data-R
  • Tidyverse information: https://www.tidyverse.org/
  • ggplot2 visualisation wizardry: https://www.cedricscherer.com/slides/useR2021.pdf
  • pipe operator:
    • first introduced by magrittr: https://github.com/tidyverse/magrittr
    • but coming to R base: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/NEWS.html
  • R Markdown gallery: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/gallery.html
  • Tables
    • flextable: https://davidgohel.github.io/flextable/
    • officer: https://davidgohel.github.io/officer/
    • frequency (for tables similar to SPSS’ FREQUENCIES): https://github.com/wilcoxa/frequency

For example, try this:

library(dplyr)
library(frequency)
options(frequency_open_output = TRUE)
mtcars %>% 
  select(carb, cyl) %>% 
  freq()