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!