Learning to learn R

Solving errors and getting help when using R

NSC-R Workshops Team and others https://nscrweb.netlify.app/
03-14-2023

Learning is making mistakes and finding ways to solve them. This meeting will be about how to learn from mistakes when working with R. We will discuss how to recognize, understand and solve errors, and how to learn from online sources and the skills of other people in the R community.

Join this workshop meeting on Zoom by clicking this link

The meeting will have a seminar-like format with short presentations by Matt Ashby, Danielle van Westbroek-Stibbe, Asier Moneva and Tim Verlaan.

Materials

  1. To prepare for the meeting, you want to take a look at these materials, which are being developed by Matt Ashby.

To run the tutorial, run these lines from the R Studio editor:

# Install the 'remotes' packages

install.packages("remotes")

# Using this package, install the crimemapping package from GitHub

remotes::install_github("mpjashby/crimemapping")

# Run the tutorial

crimemapping::tutorial("07_handling_bugs")

  1. Danielle used this example script to illustrate her presentation about debugging.

  2. Asier used this example script to illustrate his presentation about minimal reproducible examples or reprexes.

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

others (2023, March 14). NSC-R Workshops: Learning to learn R. Retrieved from https://nscrweb.netlify.app/posts/2023-03-14-getting-help/

BibTeX citation

@misc{others2023learning,
  author = {others, NSC-R Workshops Team and},
  title = {NSC-R Workshops: Learning to learn R},
  url = {https://nscrweb.netlify.app/posts/2023-03-14-getting-help/},
  year = {2023}
}