UQRUG 44
Questions: Network stability, RMarkdown, images, plotly, Correlations
2023-11-22: UQRUG 44
R Overview of the Month
This month at UQRUG, for the special ResBazQld edition, Nick will be providing an overview of 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 complete.
Attendees
Add your name, where you’re from, and why you’re here:
| Name | Where are you from? | What brings you here? |
|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Wiggins | Library | Here to help! |
| Bel | QAEHS | To learn cool things. |
| Cameron West | UQ Library & SMP | To learn! |
| Jocelyn Hume | UQCCR | Still Learning |
| Felicity Charles | UQ Gatton | To learn |
| Souhayel Hedfi | UQ Herston | To learn fun stuff too! |
| Thomas Boissiere-O’Neill | CHRC | Learn fun stuff |
| Pradeepa Korale-Gedara | QAAFI | learn and help if I can |
| Brittany Elliott | Griffith Uni | To learn |
| Valentina Urrutia Guada | UQ Library | Here to learn and help |
| Noah Rose | UQ | Learn |
| Adriano Fossati | QUT | Curiosity |
| Tanya Dodgen | QUT | Curiosity |
| eden hurn | UniSQ | Work and Research |
| Kate Osborne | UniSQ | Learn |
| Michaela | Griffith | Learn |
| Mikesh | UQ | love the RUG |
| Catherine Kim | QUT | UQRUG is the best! |
Questions
Q1 - How to measure the stability of a network - Pradeepa
I am developing a time-series network in R. Network is developed based on the correlation coefficient. R Package called ts2net
Answers * Cat: Might have a link to share that could help with this
This is a time series workshop that UQ Library put together: https://qaehs-lib-rtimeseries2022.netlify.app/
Pradeepa,if your question is about neural networks: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/stablelearner/stablelearner.pdf
Q2 - Pros and cons of using R markdown versus word to write journal articles? - Noah
Any extra details
Answers Can use Zotero plugged into R to do in-text citations. Unsure if you can use EndNote or Mendeley for the same purposes.
R-Ladies Brisbane YouTube video
Pro: * Have your code and text in the same document. * Markdown could be better for formulas with latex. * Can do citations in Rmd with Zotero - need a plugin (betterbibtex?) for Zotero to make unique IDs for each citation. * Can export the one document to .docx, .pdf, .html (for slides or as a website)
Con: * May have to export to word anyway depending on what the journal accepts. * Non-programmers would struggle (if collaborating). * Can be fiddly.
Semi-related, unofficial UQ thesis template for Rmarkdown: https://github.com/gsiemon/UQThesis Antique Article 2014: https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2014/08/29/switching-to-markdown-for-scholarly-article-production/
Q3 - Are there packages that allow you to put your own images in R? - edenn subset the data I Answers**
- Jocelyn: I just stumbled upon rsvg and ggsvg to add svg images into a ggplot. Also magick package.
- Nick: ggimage works just like ggdogs
| #### Q4 - How to reduce loading time for large plotly graph? - Jocelyn I have created some plotly graphs that have a lot of data points and takes a long time to load. Is there a function that I can use so that R is a repeated measurement? Or say to R the Period and Animals they are the experimental unit? |
| Answers |
Q5 - Correlations in R? - Eden
Any extra details
**Aneed into plotly