Current Sessions

2026 R user Community @LJMU

  • In person meetings (Wednesdays, mid-Month - starting Semester 2):
    • January: Genomic Plotting with Dr Peter Shum
    • February: Intro for Newcomers: Rmds, Open Science, the R community
    • March: Open session
    • April: Intro to meta analysis
    • June: open session / troubleshooting Summer break

January 2026

Happy new year! An introduction to genomic plotting with Peter Shum.

February 2026

Welcome to the new postgraduates! This is the annual Intro for Newcomers: What is the R community @LJMU, Rmds, Open Science?

March 2026

Open session - bring your problems/solutions/questions!

April 2026

Wondering what a meta analysis is? Or not sure how to get started? Come along to my Intro to meta analysis

May 2026

Open session

June 2026

Open session - tbc

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 - cancelled - moved to January!

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!