General Information

This workshop will go over our tips and tricks to create plots using ggplot2. Participants are encouraged to help one another and share their own "secrets" on graphs customization. The workshop is supported by WHOI's Internal Award "Expanding WHOI’s data science community of practice with foundational coding skills and topical workshops". This webpage was created using the Software Carpentry template. Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills.

Who: The course is aimed at WHOI's technical staff, graduate students and other researchers. Participants need to have basic knowledge of R. Participants need to register here.

Where: This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.

When: December 1, 2021. Add to your Google Calendar.

Requirements: Participants must have access to a computer with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).

Accessibility: We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the instructors in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.

Contact: Please email mpachiadaki@whoi.edu , sarah.hu@whoi.edu or sbeaulieu@whoi.edu for more information.

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Code of Conduct

We will be conforming to Carpentries' Code of Conduct.

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Collaborative Notes

We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.

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Schedule

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Workshop Tutorial

Plotting in R

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Useful Material

The following material might be useful.

Data Visualization with ggplot2 Cheatsheet

Base R Cheat sheet

R Language Definition

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Setup

To participate in a this workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.

We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.

Install the videoconferencing client

If you haven't used Zoom before, go to the official website to download and install the Zoom client for your computer.

Set up your workspace

Like other Carpentries workshops, you will be learning by "coding along" with the Instructors. To do this, you will need to have both the window for the tool you will be learning about (a terminal, RStudio, your web browser, etc..) and the window for the Zoom video conference client open. In order to see both at once, we recommend using one of the following set up options:

• Two monitors: If you have two monitors, plan to have the tool you are learning up on one monitor and the video conferencing software on the other.
• Two devices: If you don't have two monitors, do you have another device (tablet, smartphone) with a medium to large sized screen? If so, try using the smaller device as your video conference connection and your larger device (laptop or desktop) to follow along with the tool you will be learning about.
• Divide your screen: If you only have one device and one screen, practice having two windows (the video conference program and one of the tools you will be using at the workshop) open together. How can you best fit both on your screen? Will it work better for you to toggle between them using a keyboard shortcut? Try it out in advance to decide what will work best for you.

This blog post includes detailed information on how to set up your screen to follow along during the workshop.