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tags: teaching, swd1b
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# 2021-11 <br> SWD1b Introduction to programming in R

Welcome to the hack pad for SWD1b course from Research Computing at the University of Leeds!

You can edit this document using [Markdown syntax](https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/).

# CAMERAS ON AND MICROPHONES OFF PLEASE!

It helps us to help you if we are **all in the room**

## Contents

1. [Links to resource](#Links-to-resources)
2. [Agenda Day](#Agenda-Day)
4. [What's your name and where do you come from?](#What’s-your-name-and-where-do-you-come-from?)

## Links to resources

- **RStudio Cloud** - https://rstudio.cloud
- **Contact Research Computing** - https://bit.ly/arc-help
- **Course notes** - https://arctraining.github.io/swd1b-r/
- **Version control with git** - https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/

## Agenda Day 1

| Time | Agenda |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| 1300 | Intro, using Rstudio.cloud, What is R? |
| 1350 | Break |
| 1400 | R basics, Project management in RStudio |
| 1450 | Break |
| 1500 | Finding help, Data Structures |
| 1550 | Questions |
| 1600 | Close |

## Agenda Day 2

| Time | Agenda |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| 1300 | Data structures (cont.), Data Types and coercion|
| 1350 | Break |
| 1400 | Exploring data frames |
| 1450 | Break |
| 1500 | Subsetting data |
| 1550 | Questions |
| 1600 | Close |

## Agenda Day 3

| Time | Agenda |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| 1300 | Subsetting data (cont.), Control flow |
| 1350 | Break |
| 1400 | Control flow (cont.), plotting with ggplot2 |
| 1450 | Break |
| 1500 | Plotting with ggplot2 (cont.) |
| 1550 | Questions |
| 1600 | Close |

## Agenda Day 4

| Time | Agenda |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| 1300 | Functions |
| 1350 | Break |
| 1400 | Dataframe manipulation with dplyr |
| 1450 | Break |
| 1500 | Tidyr and the Tidyverse |
| 1550 | Questions |
| 1600 | Close |

## What's your name and where do you come from?
- Edit the hackpad and add your name!
- Clifford Richardson, Civil Engineering, need R refresher.
- Md Zahid Hasan, I am a first year PGR at the Leeds Institute of Health Science. I will be exploring the different models of urban healthcare in Bangladesh. I am learning R for conducing statistical analysis and modeling related to my PhD.
- *Ollie Clark*, **Research Software Engineer**. Background in databases and software engineering. Learning R to help support researchers.
- Nick Rhodes, Research Software Engineer. Mixed background in development and support. Like Ollie, Learning R to help support researchers.
- Zac Paling- school of biology
- Elizabeth Townsend, 2nd Year PhD student in School of Geography
- Sumitra, Postdoc in School of Biomedical Sciences
- Joe Cogan, first year PhD student (Molecular and cellular biology)
- Yousef Alghamdi, PhD student, Learning R to analyze biological data.
- Seb Croft, PhD student, soft matter physics, learning r to analyse data
- Roza, PhD student in FBS, want to learn how to deal with large datasets easily and visualize data
- Majed, 2nd year PhD, Mechnical Enginreering, soft robotics
- Tarun Kakkar, Research fellow, LICAMM. I want to learn R for Data analysis of clinical data, I have background in material science
- Chieh Lin, postdoc researcher, Business School. Learning R to complement my use of Stata.
- Dominique Hirsz, School of Biology, learning R to analyse and visualise biological datasets
-Shirley Wang, PhD of Food Science and Nutrition.
- Danielle Charles - FBS, School of Biomedical Sciences. Human biomechanist. I am refreshing R as i need a more flexible way to analyse data.
- AMAL MUDAWI, DENTISTRY
- Chong Liu, School of Sociology and Social Policy. PhD researcher, researching sexuality education and social stratification in comtemporary China. I have my first degree in Computer Science, but now I am basically a qualitative social scientist.
## Getting the data

To get the gapminder dataset for todays course you'll need to use the following command in your RStudio cloud console:

download.file("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/swcarpentry/r-novice-gapminder/gh-pages/_episodes_rmd/data/gapminder_data.csv", 
              destfile = "data/gapminder_data.csv")

## Questions and Answers

Feel free to post any questions you have here or in the Zoom chat. I'll do my best to answer them inline.

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