Beginner R: in person

February 5, 2025, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Presenter: Siobhan Schenk, Milan Simić
Location: 548 and 552 - Presentation Room (Combined)
Location: Koerner Library

Information for Participants

Join us in person at Koerner Library!

If you have never opened R, do not know what R packages are, do not know how to read files into R, this workshop is for you! At the end of this workshop you will:

  • Know what R and RStudio are
  • Know what the parts of R Studio are called
  • Know how to organize R code in an R script

This in person workshop covers selected topics from our two online workshops (Beginner R Part 1 and Part 2).

This workshop will be 90 minutes 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/Beginner_R_Part1/ and https://ubc-library-rc.github.io/Beginner_R_Part2/.

Participants should bring their own laptops. To make the most of the workshop please install R and RStudio ahead of time by following the instructions at https://ubc-library-rc.github.io/Beginner_R_Part1/content/installation.html

 

About this workshop series

Beginner R: in person is one 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 in the series offered this term are:

 

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

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This event is IN PERSON in Koerner Library, Room 548 (Research Commons presentation room).

https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3874599


First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC's two main campuses are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xwmə0– kwəyˇəm (Musqueam) and Syilx (Okanagan) peoples, and that UBC’s activities take place on Indigenous lands throughout British Columbia and beyond.


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