Slides and useful resources
On this page you can find slides and links from recent Warwick R User Group meetings. Scroll down for a full list of past events.
Procrastinating in R: emoji plots
An introduction to Shiny
- Talk slides
- example Shiny app
- Shiny official web site
- shinyapps.io — share your Shiny applications online
Cleverly copying from the console
Progress bars and animated plots for long-running jobs
By Matthew Neal
Animated plots in R
Pitfalls of 'dynamite' plunger plots
By Kenneth Lim
- Talk slides
- Relevant paper: Error Bars Considered Harmful
The Grammar of Graphics: an introduction to ggplot2
By David Selby
Graphics devices
By David Firth
RStan — efficient MCMC in R
By Jack Jewson
Short introduction to Rcpp
By Sherman Ip
List columns in data frames
By Joe Meagher
- Talk slides
- Advanced R: Data Structures (Wickham, 2014)
Importing satellite imagery from Nasa and the US Geological Survey
By Matt Moores
Publishing with bookdown and blogdown
By David Selby
- bookdown web site
- blogdown package documentation
- Example blog post: Getting started with blogdown
- "wrugdown" GitHub repository
Unit testing and continuous integration
HTML widgets
By Ella Kaye
Standard errors for MCMC
By Dootika Vats
Highlights of the useR!2017 conference
By Ella Kaye and David Selby
Getting help with R
By Ella Kaye
Open-source software / Quasi-variances
By David Firth
Tips for writing R Markdown reports
By David Selby
Building R Packages, or 'How to Move Like Hadley'
By Adnan Fiaz, Mango Solutions
Machine learning made easy with 'mlr'
By Joe Meagher
The power of vim!
Introduction to S3 classes
Singapore in Numbers
By Kenneth Lim
Using R on Android
By David Selby
MPs, Twitter and Social Network Analysis
Sensing human behaviour with online data
By Suzy Moat and Tobias Preis
Data visualisation challenge — harmful drugs
By David Selby, Kenneth Lim and Lewis Rendell
- Reddit challenge and dataset
- Slides and code to produce radar plots, emoji plots and 3-d scatter plots
- Key R packages: datapasta, ggplot2, emo, plotly
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Web crawling with R
By Stefan Stein
- R package rvest
Around the world in 64 hops
By Stefan Stein
Making less repulsive plots with ggrepel
By David Selby
Why I love data.table
By Chris Mainey
- R package data.table
- Slides
Past meetings
For more information about a past event, click on its title.
Warwick R User Group October meeting
R Data Visualisation Challenge with ggplot2
R package glmm: Generalised Linear Mixed Models
Sensing human behaviour with online data
April meeting - Social network analysis with R
March meeting - Git Workshop
Data visualisation: What aren't we seeing?
January meeting - short talks and R tips
Machine Learning made easy with 'mlr'
Peer-to-peer R advice session
Warwick R User Group — September meeting
Warwick R User Group — Short Talks by useRs
Warwick R User Group — Highlights of useR!2017
Warwick R User Group — Standard Errors for MCMC
Warwick R User Group — Data-Driven Museums
Warwick R User Group — HTML Widgets and R for Data Science
Warwick R User Group — Testing and Publishing R code
Warwick R User Group — Geospatial data and List columns
Warwick R User Group — Rcpp and RStan
Warwick R User Group — R Graphics
Warwick R User Group — Animation in R
Warwick R User Group — introductory meeting
