Introduction to Programming using R

Table of Contents

• About the course
• Changing the Script
• Contributing
• License
• Contact

About The Course

On this page we provide all materials for the Introductory R Course. The course starts on the 10.2.2020 (Monday) and goes until the 14.2.2020 (Friday).

Script: The script can be found in the folder script and a nicely rendered version is available here: online script.

Lecture Notes: All notes that were written during the live coding are available in the folder lecture-notes.

Exercises: Solutions to the exercises can be found in the folder exercises, in which we also store the data which is needed to solve the exercises. (As of right now we cannot upload the exercises due to copyright issues.) At the moment the exercise sheets themselves cannot be found online.

Outlook: On Friday I present on whats possible with R which I summarize in a small outlook.

Changing the Script

If you wish to change the script feel free to do so. The script is rendered from an r-markdown file which is found in script/script.Rmd. Just open the file in RStudio and run the following commands in the console

rmarkdown::render("path/to/script.Rmd", output_format="tufte_html")
rmarkdown::render("path/to/script.Rmd", output_format="tufte_handout")

Hopefully RStudio will tell you which packages you need to install before you can run these commands; however, since there are a thousand things that can go wrong with the package versions or latex you might need to get your hands dirty on stackoverflow. Just as an example I had to reinstall some latex related packages (on my linux machine) with

$ sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex texlive-extra-utils texlive-fonts-recommended

but for your system you might need to do something very different. In any case you might want to check out the documentation of the tufte-style I'm using: docs.

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated, even if its just about a typo. Write a feature request, issue or directly start with a pull request. If you don't know what these things mean and you still want to contribute just drop me an email; see the contact below.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

Tim Mensinger - [email protected]