R at ResBaz

By Nikki Rubinstein and Brendan Ansell

Over the first two days of ResBaz, researchers attended short 30 minute interactive pitches on the various digital tools supported by Research Platforms. We had a great time in the R tent, both with some terrible pirate jokes and through learning about the power of reproducible graphics.

After a short introduction to the R programming language, attendees were introduced to the titanic dataset. This dataset describes the characteristics of the passengers on board the titanic, including whether they survived. We learnt that it really was women and children first, with females having a much higher survival rate than males across all passenger classes.

Attendees were then challenged to explore the R language by creating the ugliest possible barplot of survival rates. As you can see in the below slide show, they more than rose to the challenge!

This would not have been possible without our amazing helpers: Molly, Luke, Caitlin, Sepideh, Tom, Caroline, Anwar, Harry, Sadia, Fateme and Meghana. Tom went so far as to create a Shiny app of the ugly plot challenge! If you’re interested in helping out or being involved with our future workshops and events, we would love to have you!

This was just a taste of the amazing power of the R programming language. If you’re interested in learning about R, we are running a 2-day introductory R workshop on March 24 and 27. Click here to register.

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