University of Birmingham (UoB) R User Group

Welcome to the University of Birmingham R User Group — a community for students, researchers, and staff who use the R programming language for data analysis, statistics, reproducible research, and data‑driven projects. We welcome all skill levels, from complete beginners to advanced users.

🎯 Goals

• Build a supportive and inclusive community around R at the university
• Share knowledge, workflows, and best practices
• Promote cross‑disciplinary collaboration
• Deliver hands‑on workshops and training
• Support reproducible research using modern R tools
• Provide a space to ask questions and get help

📅 What We Do

✅ Monthly Meetups

• Talks, tutorials, demonstrations, and lightning talks from group members.

✅ Workshops

Topics include:

• Quarto and reproducible reporting
• Working with large datasets
• Shiny dashboards
• R packages and project structure

✅ Peer Support

Bring your code, your error messages, your plots — we can try to help.

✅ Collaborative Projects

Showcase projects, shared scripts, reproducible templates, and more.

🚀 Who Can Join?

Anyone affiliated with the university:

• Undergraduate students
• Postgraduates
• Researchers
• Academic staff
• Professional services
• Data analysts and developers

No prior experience necessary.

🛠 Getting Started with R

Install R and RStudio

• R: https://www.r-project.org
• RStudio (Posit): https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop

Learn R

• R for Data Science (free book): https://r4ds.had.co.nz
• Tidyverse docs: https://www.tidyverse.org
• Quarto: https://quarto.org

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions such as:

• Talks (5–30 minutes)
• Workshop ideas
• Shared datasets
• Improvements to this repository

To contribute, please open an issue or pull request, or contact the organisers.

👯 Organising Committee

• Christine Stawitz
• Alex Changenet
• Ossama Edbali
• Jack Sullivan
• Aamir Sohail
• Kiran Phalke
• Laura Bravo

📨 Contact

📧 Email the R User Group Organiser: Christine Stawitz

📧 Email the R user group: uobrug@lists.bham.ac.uk

📅 Teams: R User Group Teams Channel

🧾 Code of Conduct

We follow the R Consortium R Community code of conduct.

📄 Licence

Unless otherwise specified, content in this repository is licensed under the MIT Licence. See LICENSE for details.