In this month’s meetup, Mark Dunning will give a general introduction to the Docker container platform and Phil Mike Jones will introduce strategies for interactive unit testing.
Mark Dunning (@DrMarkDunning) will give a general introduction to the Docker container platform and present a couple of R-related examples in which he used it to distribute course materials and supplementary materials for a paper. Mark joined Sheffield University in October 2017 to set up a Bioinformatics Core facility, having previously worked for Cancer Research UK in Cambridge after completing his PhD. The Sheffield Bioinformatics Core provides support on the analysis and interpretation of biological datasets as well as a programme of training courses. Mark is an R and open-science enthusiast and has contributed software to the popular Bioconductor project and developed and delivered numerous training courses on R.
Phil Mike Jones (@philmikejones) will talk us through some interactive unit testing using examples from his package, rakeR, and his reproducible PhD thesis. Phil is a research associate in the Centre for Criminological Research based in the School of Law at the University of Sheffield, working on the “Long-term impacts of ‘Thatcherism’: crime, politics and inequality” project. He has just finished a PhD in human geography at the University of Sheffield, entitled ‘A Spatial Microsimulation Analysis of Health Inequalities and Health Resilience’.