October 10-11, 2019
10:00 - 17:00
Instructors: Andrew McArdle, Antonio Berlanga, Anat Melamed, Elzbieta Lauzikaite
Helpers: Jocelyn Turpin, Krupa Shukla, Jonas Mackerodt, Amit Mandal, Aris Aristodemou, Margarita Cariolou
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: ICT training room, Central Library 204, South Kensington campus. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.
When: October 10-11, 2019. Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Code of Conduct: Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:
Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.
Contact: Please email k.michalickova@imperial.ac.uk for more information.
Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.
Please register here.
| 10:00 | R for reproducible scientific analysis 1 R studio introduction, getting help, lists and subsetting break at 11:30 |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | R for reproducible scientific analysis 2 data frames, exploring data frames, control flow (loops and if statements) break at 15:30 |
| 17:00 | END |
| 10:00 | R for reproducible scientific analysis 3 plotting with ggplot, data manipulation with tidyverse and dplyr break at 11:30 |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:45 | R for reproducible scientific analysis 4 R markdown and producing reports with knitr, putting it all together - a case study break at 15:30 |
| 17:00 | END |
We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
To participate in a Software Carpentry workshop, you will need access to the software described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.
R is a programming language that is especially powerful for data exploration, visualization, and statistical analysis. To interact with R, we use RStudio.
Install R by downloading and running this .exe file from CRAN. Also, please install the RStudio IDE. Note that if you have separate user and admin accounts, you should run the installers as administrator (right-click on .exe file and select "Run as administrator" instead of double-clicking). Otherwise problems may occur later, for example when installing R packages.
Install R by downloading and running this .pkg file from CRAN. Also, please install the RStudio IDE.
You can download the binary files for your distribution
from CRAN. Or
you can use your package manager (e.g. for Debian/Ubuntu
run sudo apt-get install r-base and for Fedora run
sudo dnf install R). Also, please install the
RStudio IDE.