Here, we keep track of potential topic ideas for future meetings. Suggestions welcome!

  • how to structure syntax files and projects in general
  • writing dynamic and fully reproducible manuscripts using R Markdown and/or Quarto
  • using packages like xtable, stargazer, gt, apaTables, flextable, texreg, gtsummary to export results (tables, models)
  • writing manuscripts that conform to APA guidelines using the papaja package
  • combining R and Python code in the same markdown file
  • statistical software with a GUI that uses R for the computations (e.g., JASP, jamovi, BlueSky Statistics)
  • alternatives to RStudio (e.g., Visual Studio Code, RKWard, Architect, Sublime, Emacs, Vim, …)
  • the tidyverse and packages like tibble, magrittr, and dplyr
  • for-loops and functionals (i.e., the *apply() family of functions and purrr for the tidyverse approach to functionals)
  • the data.table package
  • writing your own R functions
  • writing R packages
  • the tidymodels framework
  • working with APIs (e.g., loading data from CBS)
  • making maps / visualizing spatial data
  • Shiny for building interactive web apps
  • string manipulations (using base R functions, stringr, etc.)
  • working with dates and date-times (using base R functions, lubridate, etc.)
  • machine learning methods with R
  • reproducibility / Docker
  • using R on the DSRI
  • using ChatGPT for creating/documenting R code
  • writing R code with the help of GitHub Copilot