The University of Guelph R User Group (UGRU) is an informal meetup of your friends and colleagues from around the University of Guelph who share skills, stories and ideas on using code for research, and explore open research practices. The goal is to create a friendly, no-pressure environment where people can share their work, ask for help on a coding problem, and learn and work together with their peers. Anyone can participate -- you don't have to be an expert coder to do so!
- Learning R when you need it
- Learning R with each other
- Learning R from each other
- Learning best practices in R
- Accountability in your learning
- weekly time slot
- ask questions/challenges to other participants
- informal presentations by participants
- R working environment - reproducible research - code optimization
- accountability: setting at least one personal goal per meeting
- For everyone
- “Pain is ready, Pain is waiting, Primed to do its educating” (DEPECHE MODE, "Dream On")
- the challenges will improve your R skills
- by participating you can determine the nature of the meetings
- For grad students
- a set time to ask questions
- no need to waste weeks looking for an answer
- learn from other participants’ coding/stats problems
- For faculty
- block time each week for your own analyses
- share your statistical knowledge/mad R skills
- you finally have the opportunity to learn R
- Come to a Meeting: See the announcements above on the next meeting time and place.
- Join the Google group: This will make sure that you will get the announcements.
- Read the code of conduct: this Study Group Program is for everyone - we abide by a set of rules that require everyone be treated with respect. Help us make a space where everyone feels welcome, and we'll all have a better time!
- Watch this repo: up in the top right, there's a button that says 'Watch'; click it, and set yourself to 'Watching'. This will send you email notifications of new discussions; if you don't want email, but would like an alert just on GitHub, change the setting in Settings -> Notification Center (Settings is the little cog in the top right).