Current Sessions

2025 R user Community @LJMU

  • In person meetings (Wednesdays, mid-Month - starting Semester 2):
    • March: visioning and Intro. What is rmd?
    • April: ggplot2
    • May: data wrangling
    • June: open science workshop series
    • July: open session / troubleshooting Summer break
    • September: What is Github & how to use it with R
    • October: Bookdown intro
    • November: open session / R consortium conference: R+AI
    • December: Genomic data visualisation

March 2025

Introduction: “Why this group”? and using R markdown.

April 2025

GGplot2: basics, types of plots, colour schemes, combinations with beeswarm plots, violins, etc.

May 2025

Getting to know your raw dataset and how to tame it

June 2025

Open Research workshop series: open data, collaborations, shareable code!

September 2025

We’re continuing in the spirit of reproducible and shareable code: Learn how to use GitHub Desktop (and/or the Git integration in R Studio), for organised and collaborative work in R!

October 2025

Join us for an Introduction to R Bookdown with Peter Shum.

November 2025

No particular new skill planned - just come along to an open session for a chat or bring your R problem!