<p>R-Ladies Lancaster is ready to announce our first event!</p> <p>Our launch event will include a number of talks about R, and there will also be plenty of time for networking over pizza! (Big thank you to H20.ai for sponsoring the pizza at our launch event).</p> <p>Schedule:</p> <p>18:00 - 18:20: Registration<br/>18:20 - 18:30: Introduction to R-Ladies and the local groups<br/>18:30 - 18:50: Nic Crane: Ten Steps to Becoming a Tidyverse Contributor<br/>18:50 - 19:20: Pizza break/networking<br/>19:20 - 19:40: Rhian Davies: A day in the life with R. A whirlwind tour.<br/>19:40 - 20:00: Lucy Morgan: The rocky road to building my first R package<br/>20:00 - 20:30 Networking/close</p> <p>Nic Crane (Elucidata): 10 Steps to Becoming a Tidyverse Contributor<br/>In 2018 I became a contributor to the tidyverse and realised that you don't have to be an R expert to get involved. In this talk, I will discuss why I was originally hesitant to contribute to open source, but how the R community made me realise my doubts were unfounded. I'll walk you through the stages of making a pull request to a tidyverse package and discuss my experiences of doing so. Whilst the focus of this talk is on contributing code, I conclude with the other valuable ways you can get involved, whether you've been using R for 2 weeks or 20 years. I'd love to make this talk interactive, so please bring any questions you have!</p> <p>Rhian Davies (Jumping Rivers): A day in the life with R.<br/>I've been using R for many years and at the moment it feels like I basically run my life in the medium of R. I'll give an whirlwind tour of a day in my life as an analyst and all the weird and wonderful ways R helps - and hinders.</p> <p>Lucy Morgan (Lancaster University): The rocky road to building my first R package<br/>I heard that putting an R package together was simple once you had functions that worked. I must have heard wrong. In this talk I’ll discuss a few of the difficulties I had in starting to build my first R package (you can then avoid these). I’ll also add a few tips from the package building process and demonstrate building a very simple package in R.</p> <p>*** Venue ***</p> <p>We're meeting in Room A076 of the Science &amp; Technology building. This might be tricky to find, but there will be plenty of signs up. You can download a campus map:</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/rladies/meetup-presentations_lancaster/blob/master/admin/campus-map.pdf" class="linkified">https://github.com/rladies/meetup-presentations_lancaster/blob/master/admin/campus-map.pdf</a>.</p> <p>The star represents the room we will be in, and I have highlighted the main entrances to the building. Note that building is locked after 6pm. We will be around the main entrances from 6:00pm - 6:20pm to greet you and let you in, so please try to arrive promptly! If you are running late, please ring me [masked]) and we'll come and let you in.</p> <p>If you need more or advice help finding the location, please get in touch.</p> <p>Parking:<br/>Parking is free on the University campus after 6pm. The closest place to park is Fylde Avenue or George Fox Avenue.</p> <p>There are also very frequent buses to the University and an excellent cycle route.</p> <p>---</p> <p>R-Ladies Lancaster is part of a global initiative, R-Ladies Global, designed to improve the gender diversity of R users worldwide and in particular, to improve the participation and experience of women in the R community. As part of the initiative, R-Ladies Lancaster will host a number of talks and workshops about the use of R. It doesn't matter if you never used R or if you are an R expert, R-Ladies Lancaster welcomes anyone with an interest in R.</p> <p>Questions? E-mail: [masked]</p>