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COURSE ON - R Package design and development and reproducible data science for biologists (RPKG01) with free accommodation.

PR statistics now has a new accommodation option implemented allowing a limited amount of places with free accommodation. The next 5 people to register for this course will receive free accommodation if they require it (this does not apply to people working in industry).

https://www.prstatistics.com/course/r-package-design-and-development-and-reproducible-data-science-for-biologists-rpkg01/

Please email [e-mail] with inquiries

This course will be delivered by Dr. Cory Merow and Dr Andy Rominger from the 16th - 20th September 2019 in Glasgow City Centre.

Course overview:

This course will help students develop professional R coding skills by leading them through the process of making reproducible, sharable and easily communicated software centered around developing fully functional R packages and extensions and is thus applicable to any biologists working in the field of marine mammals. In addition to teaching traditional uses of R packages to share quantitative tools, we’ll also show how R packages can be easily developed for individual research projects to share reproducible results. To develop skills, we’ll build several R packages full of useful and general utility functions that will hone coding skills and teach coding tips through the design of these functions. Each day, we’ll reserve time for open work sessions where students can receive mentoring while applying new skills to developing their own application specific package or refining the packages we’re developing for the course.

Intended Audience:

Anyone wanting to make their data science work accessible, reproducible and usable by others (the importance of specific R packages has grown considerable now that they are frequently cited in peer reviewed literature). This can include researches developing their own quantitative tools or those interested in taking the next step in making their research projects fully reproducible and easily shared.

Course program:

Monday 16th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30

We’ll begin with polishing core skills in the creation, documentation and distribution of code:

• Writing functions
• Making your code reproducible by documenting it with RMarkdown and ROxygen
• Making your first package, breaking it, then fixing it
• Package structure

Tuesday 17th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30

Next we dive into specifics critical for the success of collaborative, reproducible and sharable projects:

• Principles of software development and reproducible projects
• Writing useful documentation and examples
• Error handling
• Collaboration with git and GitHub

Wednesday 18th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30

We will continue learning about the details that help to make a package robust to different use cases:

• Dependencies, and achieving independency
• Unit Testing
• Vignettes
• The rules of CRAN and GitHub

Thursday 19th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30

By now students will have fulling functioning, collaboratively produced, and reproducible R packages. We now turn to two key aspects of software usability: its computational burden, and its cognitive burden. Put simply, we will focus today on making code computationally fast and easy for users to quickly and intuitively understand.

• Writing fast code
• Profiling code for speed
• S3 and S4 objects

Friday 20th – Classes from 09:30 to 16:00

On the final day we will culminate our software development by learning and implementing powerful ways to share our projects with a large audience.

• Adding a shiny web app to a project
• Publishing your own package

Email [e-mail]

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• www.PRstatistics.com (Ecology and Life Sciences)
• www.PRstatistics.com/consultancy (Statistical and bioinformatics consultancy in all fields)
• www.PRinformatics.com (Bioinformatics and data science)
• www.PSstatistics.com (Behaviour and cognition)

1. September 2nd – 6th 2019 APPLIED METHODS FOR ANALYSING CAPTURE-RECAPTURE (MARK-RECAPTURE) DATA USING SPATIALLY EXPLICIT AND NON-SPATIAL TECHNIQUES (MARK01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Joanne Potts, Dr. David Borchers https://www.prstatistics.com/course/applied-methods-for-analysing-capture-recapture-mark-recapture-data-using-spatially-explicit-and-non-spatial-techniques-mark01/

2. September 9th – 13th 2019 GENERALISED LINEAR (MIXED) (GLMM), NONLINEAR (NLGLM) AND GENERAL ADDITIVE MODELS (MIXED) (GAMM) (GNAM01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Mark Andrews https://www.psstatistics.com/course/generalised-linear-glm-nonlinear-nlglm-and-general-additive-models-gam-gnam01/

3. September 16th – 20th 2019 STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS, PATH ANALYSIS, CAUSAL MODELLING AND LATENT VARIABLE MODELS USING R (SMPA01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Mark Andrews https://www.psstatistics.com/course/structural-equation-modelling-and-path-analysis-smpa01/

4. September 16th – 20th 2019 R PACKAGE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT AND REPRODUCIBLE DATA SCIENCE FOR BIOLOGISTS (RPKG01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Cory Merow, Dr. Andy Rominger https://www.prstatistics.com/course/r-package-design-and-development-and-reproducible-data-science-for-biologists-rpkg01/

5. September 23rd – 27th 2019 PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE, MACHINE LEARNING, AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING (PDMS01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Mark Andrews https://www.psstatistics.com/course/python-for-data-science-machine-learning-and-scientific-computing-pdms01/

6. September 30th – October 4th 2019 THE PRACTICE OF RADSEQ: POPULATION GENOMICS ANALYSIS WITH STACKS (RDSQ01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr Julien Catchen https://www.prinformatics.com/course/the-practice-of-radseq-population-genomics-analysis-with-stacks-rdsq01/

7. September 30th – October 4th 2019 INTRODUCTION TO LINUX WORKFLOWS FOR BIOLOGISTS (IBUL04) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr Martin Jones https://www.prinformatics.com/course/introduction-to-linux-workflows-for-biologists-ibul04/

8. October 7th – 11th 2019 CONSERVATION PLANNING USING PRIORITIZR : FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE (PRTZ01) Athens, GREECE, Dr Richard Schuster and Nina Morell https://www.prstatistics.com/course/conservation-planning-using-prioritizr-from-theory-to-practice-prtz01/

9. October 14th – 18th 2019 GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS USING R (GMMR02) Glasgow, Scotland, Prof. Dean Adams, Prof. Michael Collyer, Dr. Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou http://www.prstatistics.com/course/geometric-morphometrics-using-r-gmmr02/

10. October 14th – 18th 2019 INTRODUCTION TO BEHAVIOURAL DATA ANALYSIS USINR R (IBDA01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr Will Hoppitt https://www.psstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-behavioural-data-analysis-using-r-ibda01/

11. October 21st – 25th 2019 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES USING THE VEGAN PACKAGE (VGNR01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Guillaume Blanchet www.prstatistics.com/course/multivariate-analysis-of-ecological-communities-in-r-with-the-vegan-package-vgnr01/

12. November 4th – 8th 2019 INTRODUCTION TO BAYESIAN DATA ANALYSIS FOR SOCIAL AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES USING R AND STAN (BDRS02) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Mark Andrews https://www.psstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-bayesian-data-analysis-for-social-and-behavioural-sciences-using-r-and-stan-bdrs02/

13. November 4th – 8th 2019 BEHAVIOURAL DATA ANALYSIS USING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (BDML02) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr Will Hoppitt https://www.psstatistics.com/course/behavioural-data-analysis-using-maximum-likelihood-bdml02/

14. November 11th – 15th 2019 APPLIED BAYESIAN MODELLING FOR ECOLOGISTS AND EPIDEMIOLOGISTS (ABME05) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr Matt Denwood, Emma Howard https://www.prstatistics.com/course/applied-bayesian-modelling-for-ecologists-and-epidemiologists-abme05/

15. November 18th – 22nd 2019 INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURED POPULATION MODELS AND DEMOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION MODELS (IIPM01) Athens, GREECE, Dr Cory Merow https://www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-structured-population-models-and-demographic-distribution-models-iipm01/

16. November 18th – 22nd 2019 GEOSTATISTICS – HANDLING SPATIAL AND SPATIAL-TEMPORAL DATA USING R (GSFE01) Wimmipeg, CANADA, Dr Guillaume Blanchet https://www.prstatistics.com/course/geostatistics-handling-spatial-and-spatial-temporal-data-using-r-gsfe01/

17. November 25th – 29th 2019 ADVANCED RANGE, NICHE, AND DISTRIBUTION MODELING (ASDM01) Athens, GREECE, Dr Cory Merow https://www.prstatistics.com/course/advanced-range-niche-and-distribution-modeling-asdm01/

18. January 20th – 24th2020 R4ALL – INTRODUCTION TO R (R4ALL Glasgow, Scotland, Dr Andrew Beckerman, Dr. Dylan Childs https://www.prstatistics.com/course/population-genetics-inference-with-migrate-pgmg01/

19. March 16th – 20th 2020 POPULATION GENETICS INFERENCE WITH ‘MIGRATE’ (PGMG01) Glasgow, Scotland, Prof. Peter Beerli https://www.prstatistics.com/course/population-genetics-inference-with-migrate-pgmg01/

20. May 11th – 15th 2020 FORMALIZING UNCERTAINTY: FUZZY LOGIC IN SPECIES DISTRIBUTION AND DIVERSITY PATTERNS (FLDM01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Marcia Barbosa https://www.prstatistics.com/course/formalizing-uncertainty-fuzzy-logic-in-species-distribution-and-diversity-patterns-fldm01/

21. May 18th – 22nd 2020 STRUCTUAL EQUATION MODELLING FOR ECOLOGISTS AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGISTS (SEMR02) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Jonathan Lefcheck, Dr. Jim (james) Grace https://www.prstatistics.com/course/structural-equation-modelling-for-ecologists-and-evolutionary-biologists-semr02/

22. October 5th – 9th 2020 ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELLING USING R (ENMR04) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Neftali Sillero http://www.prstatistics.com/course/ecological-niche-modelling-using-r-enmr04/

23. October 11th – 16th 2020 ADVANCED ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELLING USING R (ABNMR01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Neftali Sillero http://www.prstatistics.com/course/advanced-ecological-niche-modelling-using-r-anmr01/