[FLR-list] Introductory courses on R/FLR

[Laurie]

Thanks.

WRT " a definitive set of resources for the flr-project"

A problem in the past has been that people have difficulty reading in 
data and then transforming it as required. For example at Shimuzu myself 
and Rob created a tutorial called working with data that combined many 
bits into one place. E.g. the original R tutorial of Philippe Grossjean, 
examples of reading in Excel files and using sweep, apply, ...
There is also the lattice/ggplot comparisons. If we all spent a bit of 
time finalising such resources we could finish off quite a lot quickly.

Laurie




On 11/21/2011 01:46 PM, ernesto.jardim at jrc.ec.europa.eu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's only 15 places, so if 50 ICCAT sci sign we'll accept the first 
> 15 and move the course to Madrid.
>
> It's a basic course, so people should bring simple data, like 
> one-dimensional time series, and we'll use it to demonstrate how to 
> read data in, make simple transformations, plots etc.
>
> Don't know what you mean with the last one but the idea of this course 
> is to complement the introduction to stocks assessment, advanced stock 
> assessment and MSE series. If we manage to increase the knowledge on R 
> and FLR to those going to these courses, we can do a lot more.
>
> Best
>
> EJ
>
> On 11/21/2011 01:17 PM, Laurie wrote:
>> WRT " 'first come first served' basis." If I send this email to ICCAT 
>> scientists and 30 people sign up immediately who are not from EU 
>> countries is that OK?
>>
>> WRT the topics "Working with your own data" & 'Exploring data with 
>> FLR'. What type of data are these? Stock assessment, cpue, 
>> catch-at-size, catch-at-age, biological, ...
>>
>> Plus it would be useful to take the opportunity to finalise a 
>> definitive set of resources for the flr-project on the areas covered.
>>
>>
>> Laurie
>>
>>
>> On 11/21/2011 01:01 PM, ernesto.jardim at jrc.ec.europa.eu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please circulate this announcement.
>>>
>>> Best and thanks
>>>
>>> EJ
>>>
>>> JRC Course on "Introduction to R and FLR for fisheries".
>>>
>>> FISHREG Action of the IPSC's Maritime Affairs Unit of the EC Joint 
>>> Research Centre is organizing 2 courses on "Introduction to R and 
>>> FLR for fisheries". The target audience are students, fisheries 
>>> biologists and stock assessment scientists with none or very low 
>>> knowledge of R. The objective of the course is to promote numerical 
>>> analysis of fisheries data with R (http://r-project.org) and FLR 
>>> (http://flr-project.org), and level up the knowledge of the 
>>> attendees, setting a good background for follow up training 
>>> initiatives on stock assessment, e.g. ICES course on introduction to 
>>> stock assessment.
>>>
>>> The courses will take place on the 10-12th of January and the 
>>> 3rd-5th of July, at the Palace Hotel (http://www.palacevarese.com/), 
>>> Varese, Italy.
>>>
>>> The courses don't have a registration fee, but the attendees will 
>>> have to cover their own travelling and accommodation expenses. The 
>>> hotel offers special fees of 75 Euros per night, please refer to the 
>>> JRC R/FLR course when booking. JRC covers the expenses related with 
>>> the organisation of the course (room, technical equipment, coffee 
>>> breaks and the transfer from Malpensa Airport to Varese). The course 
>>> will have a maximum of 15 attendees. A registration is mandatory and 
>>> the selection criteria will be on a 'first come first served' basis. 
>>> To register do the following:
>>>
>>> 1) Go to https://jrc-meeting-registration.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ and 
>>> create your user account (all data is protected)
>>> 3) Follow the link 
>>> http://jrc-meeting-registration.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Ispra/January2012/IntroductiontoRFLR/tabid/2374/Default.aspx 
>>>
>>> 4) Scroll down accept the Events Registration Statement and make the 
>>> registration.
>>>
>>> The course program is: day 01 morning - 'Introduction to R', day 01 
>>> afternoon - 'Working with R', day 02 morning - 'Writing functions', 
>>> day 02 afternoon - 'Working with your own data', day 03 morning - 
>>> 'Introduction to FLR', day 03 afternoon - 'Exploring data with FLR'. 
>>> The instructors are JRC researchers Ernesto Jardim, Iago Mosqueira 
>>> and Giacomo Chato Osio.
>>>
>>>
>>
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