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Welcome at the R user group Groningen

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Email list

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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 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

• [Preliminary] Thursday April 28th 2016: topic(s) to be announced
• [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.

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
• A plea to teach R packages early in your R lectures, 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/)