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What does R do? Bring people together, of course!

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Last night we had a great meet up of the Montreal R User Group. I got things started with a little presentation asking the question “What does R do?” (slides). I made the presentation using Montreal R User Group member Ramnath Vaidyanathan‘s Slidify package. Slidify allows you to generate rather handsome HTML5 slides directly using R markdown.

We were then treated to a great workshop by Etienne Low-Decarie. He gave us a fly over of some of the most powerful R packages for wrangling data, namely plyr, reshape and ggplot.

Here are Etienne’s slides.

You can also follow along with the code posted here.

We met a lot of people who are doing very cool things using R. I’m looking forward to our next meetup!

I’m no shutterbug – drop me a note if you came and have any better pictures.

We had clementines!

Also, thanks to Notman House for hosting us. The haunted house feeling wasn’t enough to scare off this hardy group of data geeks.

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R Workshop: Introducing Slidify – HTML5 slides from R markdown

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Thursday, June 28th, 2012  19h. <–  new evening time!

Tomson House: 650 McTavish, H3A 1Y2, Montréal, QC <– new social setting!

guRu: Ramnath Vaidyanathan (McGill University)

Ramnath Vaidyanathan will introduce the group to slidify, his brand new R package.

From the slidify website:

“The objective of slidify is to make it easy to create reproducible HTML5 presentations from .Rmd files. The guiding philosophy of slidify is to completely separate writing of content from its rendering, so that content can be written once in R Markdown, and rendered as an HTML5 presentation using any of the HTML5 slide frameworks supported.”

The package is currently in alpha and therefore not yet available on cran. You can find install instructions here.

Ramnath Vaidyanathan is Assistant Professor of Operations Management at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management.

This is a meeting of the Montreal R Users Group. We’re open to everyone! Sign up to RSVP!