WolfWorks: Reproducible Research with R
This is the course handbook for WolfWorks: Reproducible Research with R.
General information
This workshop is part of the WolfWorks academic skills development at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. All data has been generated specifically for demonstration purposes and does not reflect real-life data.
Who: This course is aimed at university students and other researchers. Attendees are expected to have some previous experience with coding in R as the basics of the R language and using RStudio will not be covered in this workshop.
Where: The Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. Unfortunately, this workshop is only available for in-person attendees and cannot be joined virtually.
When: November 23rd 2023
Contact: Please e-mail Laura Jeffrey (lkj26@cam.ac.uk) or Charlotte Hutchings (ch941@cam.ac.uk) for more details.
The Carpentries
This workshop is designed and taught by Charlotte Hutchings, a certified Carpentries instructor and PhD student at Wolfson College. The Carpentries project is a global community with a mission to teach data and coding skills and to promote efficient, open, and reproducible research in all fields.
As this is a Carpentries-based workshop, all attendees are required to conform to the Carpentries code of conduct.
Course outline and schedule
The course will be divided into two sessions, one in the morning (9.30AM - 12PM) and one in the afternoon (1.30PM - 4PM). Each session will cover several key topics.
| Session | Topic |
|---|---|
| Morning | A summary of R and RStudio |
| Morning | Projects in RStudio |
| Morning | R Markdown Basics |
| Morning and Afternoon | Advanced R Markdown |
| Afternoon | Tips for clean coding |