There is no cost for either workshop, and you're welcome to attend either one without coming to the conference itself.

Introductory LaTeX workshop: all day Thursday, July 19

On July 19 we will hold an 8-hour TeX training workshop in Portuguese: from basics to TikZ and beyond; installation clinic and consultants available throughout the day.

To reserve a place in this workshop, please email paulo@berkeley.edu.

R+knitr+LaTeX workshop: (tentatively) Saturday post-talks

Lab notebooks with LaTeX, R and knitr, led by Boris Veytsman. Zip archive of workshop files.

The work of a research scientist involves keeping daily notebooks. Such a working notebook is a document with text, equations, calculations, figures, tables, code snippets which reflects the current state of the lab research. This workshop teaches how to maintain such notebooks in a TeX/R environment.

Prerequisites. Please install the following on your computer:

• A TeX distribution (preferably TeX Live or MiKTeX);
• R with packages knitr, tikzDevice, Hmisc;
• and a front-end:
  • either Rstudio, and then, from Rstudio's Tools->Install, these packages: tidyverse, ggthemes, rpart, rpart.plot;
  • or Emacs + AucTeX + ESS. Vincent Goulet has constructed convenient Emacs distributions for Windows and Mac systems which include ESS+AUCTeX.

After you have installed R, you can install knitr, tikzDevice and Hmisc using the R packaging system.

There is no fee for this workshop, but please let us know you're planning to attend it in the comments field on the conference registration form, or email us.