Information for Participants

R Markdown turns your analyses into high-quality, elegantly formatted and fully reproducible output by putting together narrative text, code and plots. This workshop will walk you through the creation and usage of R Markdown. We will expect participants to already be familiar with R and RStudio environment, but won't assume they have ever opened an R markdown file before.

The workshop will be one hour long, followed by an optional 30-minute practice period to reinforce what you learned or consult with the instructors. Workshop materials are available at https://ubc-library-rc.github.io/r-markdown

To participate fully you will need to install the latest versions of R and RStudio on your computer before the workshop:

• Install R from https://cran.rstudio.com/
• Install RStudio from https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download

About this workshop series

Using R Markdown is one of in a series of R workshops offered by the UBC Library Research Commons. Each one-hour sesson introduces a particular task or application in R, followed by an optional 30-minute practice period with support from the instructors. The series' goal is to introduce participants to the data analysis and visualization potential of R and to encourage further self-paced exploration. Other workshops offered this term are:

• Beginner R Part 1, September 19, 1-2 pm
• Beginner R Part 2, September 26, 1-2 pm
• Introduction to the tidyverse R package, October 3, 1-2 pm
• Regular Expressions in R, October 10, 1-2 pm
• R Showcase: Statistics Canada Microdata, October 17, 10-11 am
• Data visualization with ggplot2, October 24, 10-11 am
• Loops and conditional statements in R, November 14, 1-2 pm

If you have any questions, concerns or accessibility needs please email milan.simic@ubc.ca

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