The next EdinbR meeting will be:

Wednesday April 22nd, 5-6pm in S1, 7 George Square

Note this is the same location as our February meeting, and just round the corner from Bristo square where we were last time:

We again have two great talks, one aimed at a general audience and another that’s more advanced:

• Reproducible research in R and RStudio, by Susan Johnston
  Conducting reproducible and transparent research is not only good scientific practise, it also makes life much easier. R and the RStudio environment contain a number of useful tools for producing reproducible research, from dynamic report writing in R markdown and knitr, to integrated version control of data and analyses using git. I’ll present a quick-start guide on the basics that RStudio has to offer for reproducible research, aimed at all levels of R expertise.

• Interfacing C with R, by Jarrod Hadfield
  Pure R code is fast to develop but can be very slow to run. Many R functions therefore call lower level languages such as C. I’ll give a worked example of how to do this: and hopefully persuade people its not too difficult and often worth the extra effort.

We’ve also received a few t-shirts and other bits from our sponsor, Revolution Analytics, which will be given out to anyone that signs up to give a talk at a future meeting! (If you’ve already spoken and would like one, let me know.)

Received some #rstats swag for our usergroup — thanks @RevolutionR! pic.twitter.com/nwAw0ycsQh

— EdinbR (@edinb_r) April 10, 2015

All are welcome—hope to see another great turnout!