Advanced R

[minisciencegirl]

Hi folks!

Want to take your R coding skills to the next level? Check out Hadley Wickham's Advanced R book (http://adv-r.had.co.nz/)

We have two sessions scheduled so far. What are the topics from Hadley's book that you would be interested in? I know I can definitely improve my functions writing skills...

9/26 - Advanced R 10/17 - Advanced R

Cc: @JoeyBernhardt @gvdr @SimonGoring

Discussion Group Topic Sign-Up Sheet

2016 Schdedule

Date	Discussion Leader	Topic
10/17	@SimonGoring	Style
10/24	@minisciencegirl	Subsetting
11/14	@eacton	Functions
11/28	@samhinshaw	Environments
12/12	@gvdr	Exceptions & Debugging

2017 Schdedule

Date	Discussion Leader	Topic
#03/08	@eacton	Advanced R: Functional Programming
03/29	@QMuncaster	Advanced R: Functionals
04/26	@eacton	Advanced R: Non-standard evaluation
05/24	@eacton	Advanced R: Function Operators
06/07	Group	Work-along

[minisciencegirl]

Hi folks,

For our first meeting on Advanced R this coming Monday (9/26), should we read through the first four sections of the Basics (Data Structures, Subsetting, Vocabulary, Style)?

We can chat work through the exercises and chat about ways to split up the rest of semester as we work through the book.

See you soon!

[SimonGoring]

For those of you interested, you can either buy the book, or use the online resources here:

Advanced R - Hadley Wickham

• Introduction

Foundations

• Data structures
  • This chapter summarises the most important data structures in base R.
• Subsetting
  • This chapter helps you master subsetting by starting with the simplest type of subsetting, then it gradually extends your knowledge
• Vocabulary
  • The key functions that constitute a well-rounded vocabulary in R
• Style
  • This guide describes the style that Hadley Wickham uses (in this book and elsewhere).

[eacton]

@SimonGoring or @minisciencegirl any chance we can switch lessons? Something came up last minute.

[SimonGoring]

I can probably throw the "Style" one together pretty quickly.

No problem.

[eacton]

@SimonGoring Thanks, Simon! I owe you one!

[minisciencegirl]

Thanks a bunch @SimonGoring!

[SimonGoring]

Hi everyone, I've written some notes up on my website:

http://www.goring.org/resources/R_style.html

Comments & suggestions are always welcome. The file is part of my GitHub Pages repository. Feel free to raise issues (if you want), or directly edit the R_style.md file & make a pull request.

[JoeyBernhardt]

@minisciencegirl are we still on for your session on subsetting today at 3?

[minisciencegirl]

Yes! See you all there!

[samhinshaw]

Today's notes on Environments!

[eacton]

Slides for Functional Programming

@QMuncaster here ya go!

[quintinm-dev]

Thanks!

[eacton]

Hey - so I'll take over the Advanced R Non-Standard Evaluation lesson tomorrow since @minisciencegirl won't be able to make this one! :)