Why you should use Rlogo

2022-08-01

Why is awesome!

Credits

Content on slides 5, 6, 7 and 12 adapted from Alex Spina (link).
Minor edits by Thibaut Jombart.

What is R?

functional programming language
ideal for statistics and graphs
open source
- transparent
- freely available
over 10,000 R packages
- Easy to install install.packages("incidence2")
- Easy to use library("incidence2")

## `geom_smooth()` using formula 'y ~ x'

R is versatile

R has many large and vibrant user communities

source: https://www.r-bloggers.com/social-network-analysis-using-r-and-gephis/

source: https://accidental-art.tumblr.com/

source: https://twitter.com/ZKamvar/status/800487683923415040

source: https://timogrossenbacher.ch/2016/12/beautiful-thematic-maps-with-ggplot2-only/

source: Foster et al. 2017 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005404

R can automate analyses

source: http://blog.yhat.com/posts/R-for-excel-users.html

Interactive analyses and automated reports

source: https://paula-moraga.github.io/software/

Great! How do I use it?