📦 {flashr} 0.2.0 is out! ⚡
The R package {flashr} creates flashcards for learning R functions or other things. The new version can extract R functions from R Markdown and Quarto documents, which can be used to create flashcard decks.

Blogpost: https://jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/flashr/

* extract_code() grabs content of code blocks
* extract_functions() grabs all R functions in the code text
* build_functions_df() creates a data frame that flashcard() can use to create slides
* automatically populates function definitions from https://jeffreyrstevens.github.io/flashr_decks/functions.html

With {flashr} you can view/build existing decks from R for Data Science and PsyTeachR (https://jeffreyrstevens.github.io/flashr_decks/decks.html) or build your own decks extracted from other books and sources.

Feedback is welcome on other decks or ideas for improvements!

#RStats #QuartoPub #R4DS #PsyTeachR

Very much looking forward to presenting this at the Teaching Programming to Non-Programmers: Edinburgh Winter School 2024 tomorrow. The theme for the day is pairs programming.

https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-programming-non-programmers-edinburgh-winter-school-2024

#PsyTeachR #ReroducibleCode #OpenScience #Teaching #Pedagogy

Message from my colleague Tom Beesley (@tombeesley)
"If you work in a university psychology department and teach (or want to teach) statistics using R, then we have a new mailing list for open discussion. We discuss strategies / experiences around teaching R, upcoming workshops, etc."

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RSTATS-TEACHING-UG-PSYCH

#RStats #psychology #academicchatter #PsyTeachR

This pops up on my memories every year & it's such a stark reminder of how lucky I am to be part of #psyteachr, how badly most psychology training fails its graduates, how vital coding skills are for everyone, & how incomprehensible it is that this opinion is still the minority.

Every year we teach a wildly diverse cohort of 700 new UGs & ~300 new PGT conversion students #rstats. It's demonstrably not true that it's not possible to teach psych students to code. The only people who can't learn to code are those who are not taught or given the time to learn.

All our materials are open-access with creative commons licences & we're also happy to give advice on how to make the switch. Every year another psych department switches to R - don't be the last to see the light!

https://psyteachr.github.io/

I’m at the University of Sheffield today for the Perspectives on Teaching Reproducibility symposium at the Teaching Reproducible Research and Open Science conference.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/events/teaching-reproducible-research-and-open-science-conference

I’ll add links and notes about the day in this thread #OpenResearch #reproducibility #psyTeachR

Today, thanks to the brilliant MarkR package from #PsyTeachR, I was able to rapidly re-render 300 student feedback documents in under 5 minutes, quickly fixing my inability to spell correctly on Mondays. The only downside was that I changed PYCH to PYSCH and not PSYCH as intended but you win some you lose some!

Link: https://psyteachr.github.io/markr/

#rstats #teaching #assessment #feedback

This brilliant conference on embedding open science principles in research methods teaching starts tomorrow and if you are in the vicinity you should definitely check it out. A special mention & encouragement to check out the talks of #PsyTeachR members Helena Paterson (@HelenaPaterson) & Lisa DeBruine (@debruine)

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/events/teaching-reproducible-research-and-open-science-conference

#OpenScience #teaching #ResearchMethods #SoTL #ProjectTier

One of the lesser known but hugely effective packages from #PsyTeachR is markr. Developed by @debruine and @HelenaPaterson, and a little bit by me, its function is to create individual feedback documents, for students, from spreadsheets and other types of input. Check it out below and please ask questions if interested.

Link: https://psyteachr.github.io/markr/

Background: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Du8Xx9lWPR8&feature=youtu.be

Demo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8iz9w1whMU&feature=youtu.be

#SoTL #feedback #assessment #teaching #marking #markr