Each student will be expected to introduce a package (or two) that is relevant to their research interests in a 5 minute presentation during a class session. The objectives are:
Learn how to find/download/install a new package and learn how to use it
Teach your peers about existing R packages that may be useful in their research
The presentation must include:
Brief introduction: what does the package do and why is it useful? (1-2 slides, 1 minute)
Author introduction: a short background (affiliation and other packages, etc.) on at least one of the package authors (1 slide, 1 minute)
Simple demonstration of package code: example input/output from the examples or custom coded examples (2-3 slides, 3 minutes)
There will not be time to actually run any code on-the-fly during your presentation. Instead, copy the code and output into a presentation (powerpoint, etc.) so that you can simply display it. See an example presentation here.
To select a package, I recommend starting with the views on CRAN for a topic of interest.