Welcome to RPIrates: The RPI R Users Group! We are a growing community --- over 300 email subscribers! --- of students, faculty and staff at Rensselaer who gather virtually and in person to support each others' use of the R open source analytics platform. In semi-weekly meetings we explore topics of interest, share our "feats of strength," and of course "air grievances!"
During the Fall and Spring semesters we have monthly in-person RPIrates meetings, approximately the first Weds evening of the month in AE217; certain meetings may also be shared via Webex. We also have an RPIrates email list through which we share information and ask questions: rpi-r-users@cs.lists.rpi.edu
Spring 2025 Schedule: During the Spring 2025 term we will be holding monthly RPIrates meetings at 6p in AE217, with pizza, salad and other goodies arriving approx. 5:30p.
NEW: RPIrates has a Discord Server! https://discord.gg/RtufrBzH Please jump on!
RPIrates and Data INCITE Tutorials: Watch for our growing list of R tutorials!
- R as your SuperpoweR (Sep 2024)
- Video: https://youtu.be/gCHVOsnX0d0
- Slides: RPIrates_JSE_04Sep2024.pdf
- Create Reproducible R Environments with renv! (Apr 2025)
- Intro to RStudio Server on the IDEA Cluster (Jan 2021)
- Rock your Dataviz World with ggplot2! (Feb 2021)
- Welcome to the tidyverse! (Feb 2021)
- Fun with OpenAI, GPTStudio and R! (Feb 2023)
- Using the RPI github (Jun 2023)
- What They Forgot to Teach You About R (Feb 2024)
- User Interface Design with Arielle Cerini (Aug 2020)
Ask us about RPI R Bootcamps! Occasionally the Rensselaer IDEA will host an R Bootcamp. These are two- or three-day, day-long, intensive,interactive deep-dives in the R language and platform, structured to accommodate the needs of the RPI research community.
Amazing R Feats-of-Strength by RPI R Users
- See the Data INCITE projects page for a growing list and details
Helpful R Resources
- Accessing the IDEA Compute Cluster (for IDEA and Data INCITE users)
- R for Data Science (Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund)
- The guide to the tidyverse
- The recommended text for IDEA's INCITE courses!
- R Cheatsheets (from R Studio): https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/
- R Cheatsheets (from Data INCITE):
- Matrix Algebra in R (PDF)
- CodeAcademy R Tutorial: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-r (NEW!)
- Includes: 16 lessons • 10 projects • 10 quizzes
- John Erickson's RPI R Bootcamp (github): https://github.com/TheRensselaerIDEA/r-bootcamp-2018-rpi
- Using the RPI github: A concise guide to cloning and contributing to repositories on http://github.rpi.edu
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