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June 11 2015, 1:30 - 5:00, 3121 Snedecor
Eric Hare, erichare@iastate.edu.
Andee Kaplan, ajkaplan@iastate.edu.
Carson Sievert, sievert@iastate.edu.
The knitr and R Markdown workshop will teach you how create flexible, dynamic, and interactive documents containing your code, R output, and text.
The course will be a mix of instruction and interactive activities. It will be held in a computer lab but you are encouraged to bring your own laptops, with software already loaded. A list of software will be available at this site several days prior to the workshop.| Date | Notes | Lecture and Resources |
|---|---|---|
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Install RStudio and R Markdown | This will make sure that everybody's system is up and running. You should try to install Rstudio and run the R install script ahead of time, so that this time can be used to address potential problems. Install RStudio, Setup.R |
| 2:00 – 3:00 | Motivation | Why use knitr and R Markdown? What are the strengths and limitations? |
| 3:00 – 4:45 | Using knitr & R Markdown | What is knitr and R Markdown? What are code chunks? What are chunk options? How can they be used to elegantly specify content presentation? |
| 4:45 – 5:00 | Questions and Survey | We very much appreciate any feedback you can give us. You can find a form here: survey. |
After the end of the this one course, we expect you to be able to do the following:
You can bring your own laptop and work on it, if you like to. In order to keep up with everybody else, we're asking that you start installing the following pieces of software ahead of coming to the workshop:
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