Using R Markdown

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. Participants are expected to already be familiar with R and the RStudio environment.

The workshop is one hour, followed by an optional 30 minute practice period to reinforce what you learned or consult with the instructors.

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:

• Introduction to the tidyverse R package, Feburary 29, 2-3pm
• Loops and conditional statements in R, March 14, 2-3pm
• Beginner R, March 28, 10-11:30am
• Intro to data visualization with Tableau, April 18, 9:30-11am
• Designing dashboards with Tableau, April 25, 9:30-11am

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

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