At the end of this lesson, participants should be able to:
- Use RStudio to create a new R project and populate it with relevant subfolders and data.
- Create a new R notebook within an R project.
- Use R Markdown to document research within an R notebook.
- The
SETUP.mdfile in thereferences/directory contains a list of packages required for this lesson - The
references/directory also contains other notes on changes to the repository, key topics, terms, data sources, and software.
- Good enough practices in scientific computing
- RStudio's R Markdown website
- RStudio's R Markdown cheatsheet
- RStudio's R Markdown reference guide
- R Markdown: The Definitive Guide
You can copy and paste this syntax into your console:
install.packages(c("tidyverse", "here", "knitr", "rmarkdown", "usethis"))You can download this lesson to your Desktop easily using usethis:
usethis::use_course("https://github.com/slu-dss/research-03/archive/master.zip")By using usethis::use_course, all of the lesson materials will be downloaded to your computer, automatically extracted, and saved to your desktop. You can then open the .Rproj file to get started.
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
This seminar is our introductory series of lessons for using R and RStudio with an eye towards reproducibility. We focus on some basic features of R itself, organizing with R projects, loading data using the haven package, crafting R notebooks and using RMarkdown syntax, and using the knitr package. More details are available on our website.
The SLU Data Science Seminar (DSS) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary group at Saint Louis University focused on building researchers’ data science skills using open source software. We currently host seminars focused on the programming language R. The SLU DSS is co-organized by Christina Gacia, Ph.D., Kelly Lovejoy, Ph.D., and Christopher Prener, Ph.D.. You can keep up with us here on GitHub, on our website, and on Twitter.
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