Hosting (or co-hosting) Workshops

To volunteer any workshops please contact the core development team.

Introduction to R and R Studio

NHS-R Community host volunteers running the Introduction to R and R Studio course once a month virtually. This usually is on the 3rd Wednesday of the month and is over two half days but is flexible to the availability of the person leading the workshop.

Co-hosts can also attend and assist with:

• checking the chat,
• any technical issues with the Host leaving the call (if a Host has a power cut for example and leaves the meeting, it closes for everyone) and
• it can be agreed between the host and co-host to share sections of the training.

Materials are available in a chapter form from NHS-R Community GitHub to allow people the flexibility of what to cover in a session according to the time available. There is enough content for 3 half days, however, most often only 2 half days (or 1 full day) is volunteered.

These courses are very popular and are often fully subscribed and have a waiting list. If your desired course appears full, we encourage you apply to join anyway. This may mean you can attend if others have cancelled, but if that is not the case, we can use your email address to invite you to future courses in advance of them being sharing publicly.

Recordings are always made available to attendees but are not always made public. However, if you wish to have a workshop you have led made public, these can be added to the public archive, provided permission has been sought from the attendees before recordings have been started. See section Video Recording for more information.

Contributions and changes to the materials are always welcome and can be made via the GitHub repository.

Other workshops

Workshops, other than the regular Introduction to R and R Studio, are very welcome and we’ve had talks from other languages (Python) as well as specific subjects like statistics. All workshops are recorded and, unless specifically requested otherwise, are shared publicly. See section Video Recording for more information.

The length of a workshop can vary according to the content the person/people wish to deliver. In the past, we have supported workshops of 1 hour, half a day or a whole day.

Workshop formats often include some ‘code-along’ sections or exercises.