Past Meetings

date description slides repo video notes
Oct 29, 2024 Five examples of Quarto used in NMFS reports and data products. Sunny Hospital (PolarWatch), Josh London (AFSC), Em Markowitz (AFSC), Erin Steiner (NWFSC), Jim Ianelli (NWFSC) Slides Video Notes
May 28, 2024 Learn about using Codespaces for Open science with Michael Akridge (in support of PIFSC). Michael will be sharing basics about Codespaces and the Open Science Codespaces project. Slides Video
December 5, 2023 Eric Ward (NWFSC) will discuss a project to create a standardized and combined US-Canada transboundary bottom trawl data from the North Pacific. Slides repo Notes
November 7, 2023 Trick and treat in R!: Discussion and code sharing and Posit Conf Digest (with Brian Fadely) Notes
September 26, 2023 {CiteSource} R package with Trevor Riley (NOAA Central Library). CiteSource is an R package that was developed to help researchers better understand the impact of various literature resources and search methodologies. repo Notes
August 15, 2023 Test R code with {testthat} with Bai Li (OST) Slides repo Notes
July 25, 2023 Intro to Template Model Builder (TMB) with Andrea Havron Slides repo Notes
June 27, 2023 Beginner Docker for R users with Eli Holmes (NWFSC) Slides Notes
May 23, 2023 Using the NOAA Fisheries Integrated Toolbox (NOAA FIT) with Kathryn Doering (OST) Slides repo Notes
May 2, 2023 Emily Markowitz, Joshua London, and Brian Fadely present NOAA Federal Citations in the R ecosystem Notes
March 28, 2023 Brandon Kopp from the Bureau of Labor Statistics gave a talk on Natural Language Processing Slides
February 28, 2023 Eli Holmes gave an introduction to connecting to REST APIs with R repo Notes
February 14, 2023 Monthy Posit Connect series: Fall in love with Quarto for Reproducible Report Writing Slides repo
February 3, 2023 Christine Stawitz gave a presentation on FIMS at the University of Washington Quantitative Friday Seminar: The Fisheries Integrated Modeling System, a new modular paradigm for fisheries stock assessment Slides Video
January 31, 2023 Lightning Talks! Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna | Using package vertical to creating packages for scientific papers Andy Beet | stocksmart: an R data package Andrea Havron | Fisheries Integrated Modeling System (FIMS) Alana Santana and Rory Spurr | Research permit visualization app Greg Williams | Automating California Current Ecosystem Status Reports for the PFMCouncil Eli Holmes | Creating NOAA reports with R and Quarto using the quarto_titlepages extension Em Markowitz | Converting data reports to dynamic R Markdown feat. the Bering Sea bottom trawl survey data report Sean Rohan | coldpool: Cold pool area and temperature from the eastern Bering Sea Em Markowitz | AFSC Groundfish Survey Data in Fisheries One Stop Shop (FOSS): Sharing Survey Data with the World Elizabeth Gugliotti | Creating a rstudio connect api and using it to run a model/get model results Meg Oshima | Automating SS model development workflow Felipe Quezada | CPS cluster and bayesian modelling for landings Desiree Tommasi | Bluefin tuna MSE Brian Smith | Knee-deep in fish guts: sharing metadata and creating interactive products with Shiny and RMarkdown Catherine Foley | Operational Tools for the NEFSC Northeast Bottom Trawl Survey Slides Video
January 10, 2023 Monthy Posit Connect series: R Markdown and flexdashboard Slides repo Video
December 13, 2022 R UG members share session: Ugly Plots and Better! Using ggplot like a pro. Notes
December 13, 2022 Monthly Posit Connect series: Most Useful Features of RStudio IDE you don’t know Slides repo Video
November 29, 2022 Kathryn Doering will present R Projects in github.dev/github Codespaces Slides repo Notes
October 25, 2022 Trick or treat for R tips! Come prepared to show-and-tell, discuss, or listen to members as they share favorite tips in R. These can be tips for the beginner, for preparing data products, that elevate workflows, improve collaboration, general resources, or anything between! Notes
September 27, 2022 We will be discussing and answering questions about a agency-wide GitHub Enterprise account. This is a visioning discussion. What questions do you as users and local GH organization admins have? What features are essential to you? Why would we want this versus staying with the status quo? Notes
August 23, 2022 Are you using Quarto already? Trying it out, but running into an issue? Discovered a cool new feature? Or maybe you’ve just been too busy to try it? In any case, come join us for a discussion of all things Quarto and to learn and share with colleagues! repo Notes
July 19, 2022 Christine Stawitz will share how she is using the GitHub API to create status emails in R. After the demo, we’ll discuss how we can use Christine’s efforts to possibly create a user-friendly R package that everyone can benefit from!
June 14, 2022 Megsie Siple will be sharing an introduction to building and publishing shiny apps!
May 10, 2022 NMFS R UG Lightning Talks! Diana Dishman (WCRO), “Automating BiOps and permits: why regional offices should love R too!”, Em Markowitz (AFSC), “Using R to make survey preparation, communication, and results sharing more efficient!”, Amanda Bradford (PIFSC), “Design-based line-transect cetacean abundance estimation in R”, Alan Olson (WCRO), “Multipopulation PNI (Proportionate Natural Influence) modeling tool” and “Predation, competition, and delayed mortality risk model”, Eli Holmes (NWFSC), “MARSS: Multivariate Time Series Analysis in R!”, Ben Duffin (OSF), “Points and Polygons: an App for Atlantic HMS EFH”, Kelli Johnson (NWFSC), “Automated alternative text with ggplot2”, Bai Li (OST) and Giselle Schmitz (OST), “Automating the backup of GitHub repositories”, Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna (NWFSC), “Parallelization and batch processing models with R”, Kathryn Doering (NWFSC) and Bai Li (OST), “ghactions4r: Use github actions workflows for R packages with less effort”, Adyan Rios (SEFSC), “Management history processing” Slides Video
April 12, 2022 {pins} with an R Studio Rep! A representative from R Studio will be joining us to introduce the {pins} R package. {pins} can be used to share on a networked drive or with services like DropBox, RStudio Connect, Amazon S3, Azure storage and Microsoft 365 (OneDrive and SharePoint).
March 29, 2022 Erin Steiner (NWFSC) runs a data collection program where she collects cost and participation info from Commercial fishers, processors, and quota owners. She will present R Markdown tools they use for data QA and discuss data workflow challenges. Slides
Mar 8, 2022 Adyan Rios (SEFSC) will talk about how the SouthEast Data, Assessment, and Review (SEDAR) is dealing with confidential data used in projects on GitHub. She’ll talk about various tools and processes to prevent confidential data or secrets from being committed to repos Slides repo Video Notes
Feb 1, 2022 Abby Tyrell (NEFSC) will share code and workflow/process insights on her work contributing to Ecosystem and Socioeconomic Profiles produced by the NEFSC and AFSC Slides repo Video
Jan 4, 2022 Josh London (AFSC) will give a presentation on how the {targets} package helps with reproducible scientific workflow. repo Video Notes
Dec 14, 2021 Kelly Mayo (OST) will be giving a tutorial and discussion about manually (via Adobe Acrobat) editing reports to be 508 compliant and talk about how we can use screen readers to check our work. Slides Video Notes
Dec 7, 2021 Eli Holmes (NWFSC) will give a brief tutorial and then NMFS R UG members will show how they are using GitHub Actions. Slides Video Notes
Nov 16, 2021 Lightning Talks on Reproducible Reports and Scientific Manuscripts. See repo column for links to individual repos. Talks: VRData, State of the Ecosystem Reporting workflow, estimATM, manual for SSMSE, Quota monitoring using RMarkdown, Alaska ESP report card templates, LHsampling: Tool for fisheries dependent biological sampling, EDA for caribbean commercial logbook data, Bringing together northeastern fishery-dependent data sets, NMFS-wide R Studio Connect Server, Environmental data -> web API -> shiny, NBS Community Report, Spatial Assessment Modeling Workshop Slides repo Notes
Oct 26, 2021 508 Compliance and RMarkdown documents Video Notes