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Welcome at the R user group Groningen

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Feel encouraged to edit things here, it is meant to be.

Email list

We have an intentionally low-traffic email list here.

Meetings

Meetings are currently aimed to take place at the fourth Thursday of each month, from 10:00-11:30, with a coffee break in the middle.

• Thursday April 28th 2016 10:00-11:30 at SmitsBorg, Room 373
  • First speaker: Chris Davis: topic mining
  • Second speaker: Richel Bilderbeek: test-driven development

• [Preliminary] Thursday May 26th 2016: topic(s) to be announced
• [Preliminary] Thursday June 23rd 2016: topic(s) to be announced
• [Preliminary] Thursday July 28th 2016: topic(s) to be announced
• [Preliminary] Thursday August 25th 2016: topic(s) to be announced
• [Preliminary] Thursday September 22nd 2016: topic(s) to be announced
• [Preliminary] Thursday October 27th 2016: topic(s) to be announced
• [Preliminary] Thursday November 24th 2016: topic(s) to be announced
• [Preliminary] Thursday December 22nd 2016: topic(s) to be announced

1) Full address: SmitsBorg, Center for information technology, Nettelbosje 1, Zernike, Groningen, Room 17. When entering the building, go right immediately.

Past meetings

• Thursday March 31st 2016 10:00-11:30 at SmitsBorg, Room 17 (1)
  • Chris Davis: Rmarkdown
  • Richel Bilderbeek: Create a minimally professional R package in at least 10 minutes

Topics for future meetings

Here you can suggest topics for future meetings, if you:

• would like to request a topic to be discussed
• would like to give a presentation about the topic

General topics

• Create a minimal professional R package in at least 10 minutes (git, GitHub, tests, manual, vignette), by Richel Bilderbeek
• Create an industry-strength R package from a package in at least 10 minutes (Travis CI, CodeCov, lintr), by Richel Bilderbeek
• R coding standards, by Richel Bilderbeek
• Test-drived development in R, by Richel Bilderbeek

Packages

• swirl: a package that can serve as lesson 1 of your R lectures, by Richel Bilderbeek
• Rcpp: adding C++ code to your R code, by Richel Bilderbeek

Courses where R is used within the University of Groningen

Please also add the link to ocasys (http://www.rug.nl/ocasys/)

Material used in presentations

At the R-User-Group-Groningen GitHub you can find the presentations. We would have added it here, would this Wiki allows us.