Workshop materials for R-Ladies #LdnOnt: Figuring out figures in R

I gave an intro workshop on ggplot (“Figuring out Figures in R”) for our R-Ladies #LdnOnt crew at the end of October. Those materials are online now in various forms:

• The slides themselves
• Github repo containing the source code to the slides, the data, and an .R script including some of the code we played around with
• Google Drive folder containing everything you can find at our GitHub (trying to be cross-platform friendly, here!)

This was a fun workshop to give because, to an extent, it is something I am fairly familiar with (I have plotted many a graph in ggplot), but there are still lots of unknowns to me. I’m exploring some new formats for visualization (e.g., I’m getting really stoked about joyplots¹, aka ridgeplots lately for my dissertation) that I wanted an excuse to explore more in depth. There are a number of aspects of ggplot I have to look up

literally 👏 every 👏 time 👏 I 👏 use 👏 it

(cough, theme(), cough), and I wanted a good reference I could refer back to for that. I’d also been wanting to try out creating presentations in xaringan, and so I used this workshop as an excuse to get my hands dirty with that too.

That’s pretty much all I have to say! I am truncating my tendancy to turn these little “updates” into long rambly posts because there are a number of other things on my to-do list today, and it’s too easy to get carried away writing about R-Ladies fun shenanigans.