R4DEV

A hands-on workshop on reproducible data analysis · running since 2022

More fiction is written in Excel than in Word. Learn how to do better.

From your first Quarto document to interactive maps, animations, web apps and programming Large Language Models –all in R, free, open-source, and tested on real humans1 at the OECD.

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All progress is piecemeal, so the workshop improves permanently. Keep the Posit cheat sheets and the tidyverse style guide close.

Sessions 📊

Blogging with Quarto 📓
5 min

Learn to work with Quarto, to write prose and analise data at the same time. Create and update a blog using Quarto and then publish it online using Netlify

Jul 30, 2022

Everything in its right place 🎼
31 min

Learn how to get information from APIs with httr2, and create interactive visualisations of historical GDP, Kyoto weather and archived Spotify songs using ggplot2, plotly…

Jul 31, 2022

Data from words 📚
37 min

Import, clean, tokenise and stem text, plus do sentiment analysis, topic modelling and learn how functions in R make your work so much easier.

Jul 31, 2022

Making data move 🚶
24 min

Transform static plots into animations using gganimate. Examples include millenia of chery tree blossoms, COVID-19 aftermath and why causation does not imply correlation.

Jul 31, 2022

Mapping despair in the USA 🗺️
29 min

Learn how to find, download and visualise spatial data. We’ll create static and interactive maps using ggplot2 and leaflet, using data on the opioid epidemic in the United…

Jul 31, 2022

Just take it 🌏
14 min

Sometimes you need to bring data straight from a website. Scrape IMDb movie rankings, U2 lyrics and untranslatable words.

Jul 31, 2022

Make it shine 🌟
38 min

These are the best sessions, bringing together all the tools from previous sessions to create interactive apps. You’ll learn how to build and publish Shiny dashboards and…

Jul 31, 2022

Smart reports 🧠
8 min

Create parametrised reports and learn to work with references using Zotero.

Jul 31, 2022

Do it well, do it fast 🏎️
9 min

map() replaces the for-loop; mirai replaces ‘one core at a time’. Learn purrr’s functional style, then parallelize it with a single wrapper function – no rewrite required.

Jul 5, 2026
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Footnotes

  1. Thanks to Zélie, Rebecca, Rossana, Romane, Emma, Shivona, Maria, Valeria, Laura, Sofia, Maëlle and many others who tested, often with their patience, earlier versions of this workshop.↩︎