Welcome to ‘Open Canada Use R!’ Portal

Pages for people interested in learning and using R in the Government of Canada and elsewhere.

2021-11-14

The first draft of The R4GC Book released at https://open-canada.github.io/r4gc)

2021-10-29

A presentation was made about the work of our R4GC community at 2021 International Methodology Symposium. The slide decks of this presentation are here: in English and en francais)

2021-09-10

On 8 October, we are starting a new series of Lunch and Learn’s weekly meetups focused on Text Analysis with R. For more details please see GCCollab Events pages.

2021-08-04

A contribution is made to the 2021 International Methodology Symposium to describe the collaborative work done by the R4GC community.
Please join us on Friday 29th October 2021 at the Symposium for Session 9A -- Making Official Statistics More Open (13:00- 14:15) to learn about “Development of R libraries for common tasks with open Canada data”.

2021-06-25

We finished our Season 2 - The codes and video recordings are available on GCcollab.
This portal goes now into the dormant state. Please visit GCCollab: R4GC Community for all information related to our future “Lunch and Learn” meet-ups and related knowledgebase.
The GC wiki page is created, which provides links to R4GC community discussion topics and resources: https://wiki.gccollab.ca/UseR!

2021-05-10:

The Apps that we have developped are now also hosted at: https://open-canada.github.io/Apps!

2021-04-30:

Based on the poll answers, our weekly Lunch and Learn R Friday meet-ups moved from 11:30-12:15 to 12:05-12:55. See GCCollab Group for all details.

2021-04-23:

We now have a new Use R! portal hosted here at open-canada GitHub account! This portal is the continuation of the efforts started last year at R Ottawa, now supported by a larger community of government employees from around the country.

2021-04-16:

We have started a new series of hands-on “build from scratch” tutorials - focused on developing skills for building your own R packages. The objective is to build a variety of useful packages for common use by all, using the codes contributed by the community.
- GC employees and partners, please visit GCCollab Group for more details, notes and recordings from these meetups.

2021-03-26:

The deck and video-recording from the seminar “Data Engineering with R, R Markdown, Shiny and algorithms” (by Dmitry Gorodnichy) organized by Statistics Canada for the Applied machine learning for text analysis community of practice are now posted at https://gccollab.ca/event_calendar/view/7556628

2021-02-27:

GC employees, head to https://gccode.ssc-spc.gc.ca/r4gc for more resources and codes related to R coding and usage at GC! Join us for informal ‘Lunch and Learn’s meet-ups every Friday at 11:30. - See GCcollab for more information.

2021-02-21:

Data Engineering Demo is ready for the #GCData2021 Conference Data Literacy workshop: https://rCanada.shinyapps.io/demo/. See workshop GCcollab page for the associated deck and video-recording of the workshop

2021-01-06:

Join us at the Data Engineering workshop on 22 February, organized within the Fifth Annual Data Conference (#GCData2021 / #DonnéesGC2021). Hosted by CBSA, “the workshop will overview the challenges and solutions related to data engineering. You will be able to experience some of data engineering challenges first-hand, and see how these challenges can be solved using modern data science tools such as R and RStudio. The work on developing an R package and Shiny application to assist with data cleaning and linking will be presented.”

2020-12-10:

Following the announcement at the Data Science Network for the Federal Public Service (DSNFPS) newsletter, we received multiple requests for another R training, like the one we did last Summer. Why not? To enroll and more details - see R101.

2020-06-05:

We finished the first season, where we learnt how to write an interactive dashboard that visualizes the COVID datain US. - You can see the final result here! All codes and resourcea are posted here. Have great summer!

2020-05-03:

YouTube channel created: R101 “Learning R together” (Building Data Science Apps from scratch). If you missed a session, you can now watch it there. Session transcripts are also posted in R101.
Ideas for homework are added in Resources

2020-04-28:

We’ve heard you: You want to get all the power and fun of R, but you don’t know where to start – Starting this week, we’ll show you how you can start learning and using R in absolutely no time and even without any software installed on your computer! All you’ll need is to login to https://rstudio.cloud and we’ll guide you through after that. We will be developing a COVID App from scratch - together! Sessions will be recorded.

2020-04-01:

Invitation to Lunches with Data Challenges meet-ups is extended from CBSA to all GoC. See: GCCollab*
The focus of discussion becomes Covid-19 and what we (R enthusiasts and learners) can do about it.

2020-03-18

Our informal Wednesday’s “Morning Coffees with Data Challenges” meetings, which we’ve been having in CBSA since Summer 2019, go online, becoming “Lunches”.

Dmitry Gorodnichy (dmitry.gorodnichy @ gmail.com or dmitry.gorodnichy @ cbsa-asfc.gc.ca)