Friday June 26, 2026
1:30 - 4:30 PM
Karl Miller Center, 615 SW Harrison Street, Portland, OR
Room KMC TBD
This is an introductory workshop to R for beginners. We will talk about reading data with R and organizing it in variables, vectors, and matrices. We will perform some basic operations on an example dataset (mean, maximums, minimums) pre-installed in base R, and create some simple visualizations. We will talk about writing R functions. We recommend that you install R and RStudio in your own computer for the workshop, but you can also access it via Posit. For information about setting up R in your computer visit https://rstudio-education.github.io/hopr/starting.html.
Knowledge Prerequisites: None.
Pre-Installations: A recent version of R and RStudio.
Instructor
L.K. Borland
Pronouns: They/them
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
I am a data management coordinator at the Oregon State University Library. I have a background in geography and ecology, specifically marine science, but I work with many different disciplines in my work now! I curate our institutional data repository, ScholarsArchive@OSU, help researchers with planning their data management, encourage open-access data publishing, and provide workshops on introductions to R and Python.