University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: RStudio

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 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 …

Learn Markdown – Episode 6. Convert Word to Markdown with pandoc

Summary Pandoc is a document converter for multiple type of files. Converting example Format conversion is a chore that often takes a lot of time. I recently wanted to convert a long MSWord document into a version of Markdown that I could use to update a software documentation. Pandoc can convert many documents types into …

Using Python within RStudio

Summary Finding and implementing settings in RStudio to use Pyhon. RStudio and Python RStudio can handle a large number of languages (> 50) in addition to its basic support of R. (This month the RStudio company has been renamed Posit.) There are a few critical steps to implement for using Python to avoid painful issues, …