2019-08-22 02:33:11
R Radio (We R Family)
R Radio (We R the Champions)
R Radio (You R So Beautiful)
Acknowledgments
Agenda
- Welcome and introductions
- Who R you?
- Housekeeping
- Schedule
- Aspirations & Philosophy
- The stoRy of R
Welcome and introductions
- Mimi Brinberg
- Sy-Miin Chow
- Rick Gilmore
- Michael Hallquist
- Nilam Ram
Welcome and introductions
- Dan Albohn
- Mimi Brinberg
- Kayla Brown
- Meng Chen
- Nate Hall
- Rebecca Janis
- Linying Ji
- Jungmin Li
- Yanling Li
- Jonathan Park
- Yiming Qian
- Alicia Vallorani
- Holly Zaharchuk
Who R You?
Housekeeping
- Bootcamp materials on GitHub: https://github.com/psu-psychology/r-bootcamp-2019
- Bootcamp website: http://psu-psychology.github.io/r-bootcamp-2019
- Survey: Please complete this anonymous (and light-hearted) survey before the end of the day tomorrow (Thursday).
- Sessions are being video recorded. 2017 is on Databrary.
Housekeeping continued
- Toilets on this floor near elevators
- Two stairway entrances/exits
- No food or drink (except water bottles with lids) in these rooms
- Use Zoom to follow along, but do NOT unmute sound unless you have headphones
Schedule
- Day 1 (Wednesday, August 21, 2019)
- Day 2 (Thursday, August 22, 2019)
- Day 3 (Friday, August 23, 2019)
Day 1 (Wed 8/21) Schedule
08:30 am • Breakfast in Moore lobby
| Plenary, 210 Keller |
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| 09:00 am • Welcome, introductions, & housekeeping |
| 09:15 am • Why We R Here |
| 09:45 am • Break |
Day 1 (Wed 8/21) Schedule
| Slow-R Track, 210 Keller | Fast-R Track, 211 Keller | |
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| 10:00 - 11:00am • RStudio, R console, object classes & data types (Rick Gilmore) | 10:00 - 11:00 am • Multilevel models, moderation, & probing interactions in lme4 (Mimi Brinberg) |
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| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm • Hands on with RStudio | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm • Hands on with multilevel models |
Day 2 (Thu 8/22) Schedule
08:30 am • Breakfast in Moore lobby
| Slow-R Track, 210 Keller | Fast-R Track, 211 Keller | |
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| 09:00 - 09:45 am • Data indexing and subsetting (Rick Gilmore) | 09:00 - 10:00 am • Introduction to structural equation modeling (SEM) in lavaan (Michael Hallquist) |
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| 09:45 - 10:30 am • Hands on practice | 10:00 am - 10:30 am • Hands on with lavaan |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 am • Break | 10:30 - 10:45 am • Break | |
| 10:45 - 11:30 am • Packages, scripts, & functions (Rick Gilmore) | 10:45 - 11:45 am • Dynamical systems analysis using dynr (Sy-Miin Chow) |
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| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm • Hands on practice | 11:45 am - 12:15 pm • Hands-on practice/demo with dynr |
Day 3 (Fri 8/23) Schedule
08:30 am • Breakfast in Moore lobby
Aspirations & Philosophy
- You can learn to program
- You should learn to program
- R is a good language for learning programming
The storRy of R
The storRy of our R
- What is R?
- A programming language, written by and for statisticians & data scientists
- Why is it called R?
- TLDR: it’s the free, open-source version of a commercial program called S developed in the 1970s at Bell Labs
- Bell Labs is also the home of C, and the Unix operating system
The storRy of R
- Features of R
- Written in C, Fortran, and R
- 20th most popular programming language
- Base R (now 3.6.1) + thousands of packages
- Object-oriented
Using R
- In the cloud from your browser
Your turn
- Why do you want to learn R?
- If you know some R, what else do you want to learn?
- Complete the survey
- Testimonials?
Next steps
- Have fun, ask questions
- Slow R (stay here in 210 Keller)
- Fast R (go next door to 211 Keller)
- Coffee in Moore lobby