UQRUG 16

meeting
Published

May 31, 2021

2021-05-31: UQRUG 16

Participants

  • Catherine Kim (Library/Biology): using the R package boral for multivariate data …
  • Stéphane Guillou (Library): playing with APIs, trying the MusicBrainz one at the moment to build a Shiny app…?
  • David Green (UQ RCC) helping HPC users to get R code running on the HPC …
  • ** Roman Scheurer (UQ QCMHR): Interested in using RStudio for large population-level and time series data, applying geographic information systems to identify patterns of health utilisation
  • … and a few more!

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-Ladies Brisbane has a YouTube channel! First video is a presentation by Julie Vercelloni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8e2xuyttI
  • R 4.1 and RStudio: https://community.rstudio.com/t/psa-r-4-1-0-release-requires-rstudio-preview/105209
    • What’s new in R 4.1: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html
    • If you need the preview version to fix the graphics issues: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/preview/
  • useR 2021 conference: https://user2021.r-project.org/participation/registration/
  • Share code on GitHub: https://github.com/
  • Import LAS dataset with lidR package: https://jean-romain.github.io/lidRbook/
  • after_stat() function in ggplot2: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2020/03/ggplot2-3-3-0/#more-control-over-aesthetic-evaluation