University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: R

UW Free Computing Badger Compute and CHTC

Summary Two resources for free computing at UW-Madison offered by the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC): – BadgerCompute: badgercompute.wisc.edu/ for Jupyter-based interactive notebooks in R, Python, or Julia computer programming languages. – High Throughput Computing for large compute projects. Free account by filling-in a request account form. Free computing @ UW There was a …

Bioinformatics, R, Python, and more on Campus – Fall 2025

Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python. (For more details see further below.) – UW Libraries – Steenbock Library Workshops – UW Data Science Hub / Software Carpentry – Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) Steenbock Library Workshops See details on announcement page: Learn how to use Python and/or R programming languages for …

R and Python workshops on Campus – Fall 2024

Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python. (For more details see further below.) – Biochem – Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) – UW Libraries – SSteenbock Library Workshops – Computational Biology, Ecology, & Evolution (ComBEE) Study Groups R and Python at Biochem R and Python “Clubs” were established in late 2022. The …

Environmental Health Tabular data analysis with R and Tidyverse

R and Tidyverse Tabular Data Analysis I have updated the Tabular data analysis with R and Tidyverse course that analyze environmental health data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) a survey research program conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children …

R and Python workshops on Campus – Winter 2024

  Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python: – Biochem – Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) – UW Libraries – SSteenbock Library Workshops – Computational Biology, Ecology, & Evolution (ComBEE) Study Groups R and Python at Biochem R and Python “Clubs” were established in late 2022. The Python Club is currently closed …

Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 7: BibTeX for online articles

Summary A tool to create a BibTeX entry for online articles or blogs. Generate BibTeX from URL This is a follow-up on 6 “Episode”” in previous posts titled “Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown…” In a previous article (Sgro (2022)) I presented how to add bibliographical information within an Rmarkdown document (Allaire et al. (2023)) …

Data exploration in R with Tidyverse dplyr – part 2 – 10 examples

Summary Part 1 (Sgro (2023)) : was a general overview of the dplyr package for data exploration and manipulation to summarize or extract information from tabular data. Part 2: (This post) provides worked examples while learning Rmarkdown. The 10 `dplyr` examples cover the topics in the list below. An 11th example was added to show …

Data exploration in R with Tidyverse dplyr – part 1 – overview

Summary Part 1: A general overview of the dplyr package for data exploration and manipulation to summarize or extract information. Part 2: Next post will provide worked examples.     1 Motivation The Biochemistry R Club is following the new, 2^nd edition of R for Data Science (Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Grolemund (2023).) The Club sessions are recorded in a local …

Centralizing R & Python Data Projects: Posit Cloud Essentials Event

Cloud event Users of RStudio may be interested in this monthly event presented by “Posit” which is the new name of the company that produces RStudio, as the software can be used with many more languages beyond R, including Python. This event will occur monthly online on the last Tuesday of every month. Next occurrence …

R and Python workshops on Campus – Fall 2023

Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python: R and Python at Biochem R and Python “Clubs” were established in late 2022. The Python Club is currently closed but may be restarted in a new format. Minutes and scripts from the sessions are available online: beginners, intermediate_advanced, communication. The R-Club is continuously meeting …