R Workshop at Northwestern Polytechical University in Xi'an

Presented by Sahir Bhatnagar (McGill University) and Yi Yang

Date: July 8-11, 2018
Location: Northwestern Polytechical University, Xi'an, China

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Course Outline

1. An Introduction to Programming in R
   • Background on the R language
   • Basics of R
   • R Graphics
   • Basic Statistics
   • Reproducible Reports with RMarkdown and knitr
   • Link to the source code used to produce An Introduction to Programming in R slides
2. Reproducible Research with knitr
   • A motivating example
   • Installing RStudio, knitr
   • Basic knitr example
   • Link to Examples
3. An Introduction to LaTeX
   • Installing LaTeX and TeXStudio
   • What is LaTeX and why is it useful
   • Getting Started
   • Writing with LaTeX
   • Mathematical Equations
   • Tables and Graphics
   • Creating References
   • Live demonstration of LyK editor
4. A primer on Regression Trees
   • Link to exercise
5. Boosting
   • Gradient Boosting notes
   • Link to the source code used to produce Gradient Boosting notes
6. An Introduction to Git and GitHub
   • Installing Git
   • Signup for a GitHub account
   • Install GitHub Desktop
   • Version control R code
   • Create a branch, pull request, merge
   • Brief Intro to RStudio Git Functionality
   • Create and publish RMarkdown
   • Create and online CV
7. Create a Website with GitHub

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Software Required

• R
• RStudio Preview

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References

Books

• Advanced R

Websites

Basics of the R language

• ggplot2
• R Cookbook graphs

packages

• Searching for packages

Forums and documentation

• Stackoverflow
• R Documentation
• R Bloggers

Reproducible Research

• Markdown
• RMarkdown
• Conversion of documents with Markdown and Pandoc
• Shiny
• Code chunk options
• HTML widgets

Other

• Montréal UseR Group
• International UseR Groups
• Reproducible Research with LaTeX
• What is an R-Project?

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