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+R for Excel Users Workshop
+==========================
+
+## Introduction to the R for Excel Users Workshop
+This workshop was developed for the NHS-R conference 2019 in Birmingham UK. The aim of the workshop was to teach people how to develop generic basic R scripts to automate routine health service analysis tasks. During the workshop this was achieved by:  
+* Learning to identify which tasks are most appropriate for automation
+* Understanding how to break down an analysis into useful stages
+* Undertaking a practical task to reconstruct a non-generic R script of an example analysis to learn about the basic construction of R scripts and the ordering of operations
+* Undertaking a second practical task to reconstruct a more generic version of the R script used in the first task to learn about the evolution of script from a non-generic to a generic script  
+
+[Follow this link to the git repository containing all of the workshop files](https://gitlab.com/SManzi/r-for-excel-users-workshop)
+
+The files contained in the repository are:
+* The workshop presentation without the task answers
+* The workshop presentation with the task answers
+* The mixed up code for task 1
+* The correctly ordered code for task 1
+* The mixed up code for task 2
+* The correctly ordered code for task 2
+* The raw data used for tasks 1 and 2
+* The R script used to create the raw data for the workshop
+* A list of required R packages