UQRUG 20

meeting
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September 21, 2021

2021-09-21: UQRUG 20

Participants: 14

  • Stéphane (Library): thinking a lot about an “OpenStreetMap Recipes” package…
  • Catherine: Library/Postdoc Biology, code/data into a repository for a paper
  • Shaoyang: QAAFI PhD student. Wine sensory/consumer science. Data modelling. Multivariate statistics. Multi-block data.
  • Evan: PhD Student, Developmental Neuroscience. Interested in moving from disorganised scripts to organised modules and packages.
  • Fathin: PhD Student, SAFS. Looking to extract raster and use it to create model.
  • Huiyang: PhD student, Faculty of Medicine, Diamantina Institute, Immunology. Would like to learn something about bioinformatics and data science related to R.
  • Muhammad Abdullah PhD Student,QAAFI, I want to learn bioinformatics and data science releated R.
  • Luzia Bukali: PhD Student, QIMR, Infection and Immunology. Relatively new to R. Looking to learn more about data analysis and creating figures in R.
  • Xiongzhi Wang: PhD student, School of Communication and Arts. I want to learn and refresh knowledge of using R.
  • Muhammad Yahya: PhD candidate at QAAFI.
  • Gazi: Masters’s student, School of Economics. I just started learning R.
  • … and 3 more UQRUGers!

Shared resources

  • Resources here!
  • R packages book by Jenny Bryan and Hadley Wickham: https://r-pkgs.org/
  • The Library’s R packaging course: https://gitlab.com/stragu/DSH/-/blob/master/R/packaging/packaging.md
  • usethis package to set up R packages: https://usethis.r-lib.org/
    • usethis for R packages kbroman: https://kbroman.org/AdvData/18_rpack_demo.html
  • unit testing with the testthat package: https://testthat.r-lib.org/
  • Input-output analysis:
    • iotables package: https://iotables.ceemid.eu/
    • ioanalysis package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ioanalysis/
  • Exercism online coding practice! https://exercism.org/
  • working with netcdf files for CMIP6 data: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337991369_User-Friendly_R-Code_for_Data_Extraction_from_CMIP6_outputs; https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AGUFMPA33C1098K/abstract
  • tax_name function for taxonomic, genetic data (from taxize package): https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/taxize/taxize.pdf