The growth of R user groups worldwide
Online Communities
#rstatson Twitter- RStudio’s question forum
- R Weekly shares weekly highlights from across the R world
- R Ladies meetups
- R Ladies Global Twitter
- R for data science learning community
- ROpenSci
- MN Gov Team’s Team
- Join here!
- Non-state employees: You’re welcome too! Just ask us to invite you.
Conferences
- R Conference for Govt. & Public Sector
- 2022: Nov. 30th DC and virtual
- useR Conferences in July
- 2022 virtual
- 2021 online recordings
- 2019 in Toulouse, France
- 2018 in Brisbane, Australia
- RStudio Conferences & workshops
- 2022: Washington DC, July 25-28
Learning resources
Dip your toes in your browser
- Intro to R (with very cute giraffes)
- Short RStudio lessons:
- R programming basics
- Working with data
- Visualizing data
- R programming basics
- Longer data wrangling lesson:
- Datacamp (First section is
FREE)
- Datacamp (First section is
Recordings
- Statistics 220 labs with Amelia McNamara St. Thomas U.
| Year | Event | Topic | Event link | Group webpage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Workshop | R reports with Rmarkdown: Tips & Tricks w/ Allison Horst | Google Drive recording | R-Ladies global |
| 2021 | Presentation | ggplot: Take a Sad Plot & Make it Better w/ Alison Hill | Take a Sad Plot & Make it Better | R-Ladies global |
| 2020 | Workshop | Plot anything w/ ggplot | ggplot workshop |
We love books
- Hadley’s R 4 Data Science: A comprehensive & free book online.
- Modern Statistics for Modern Biology
- Introduction to Modern Statistics
- Rob Hyndman and George Anthanasopoulos Forecasting: Principles and Practice