Overview

Presenter

Harrison Dekker
Associate Professor and Data Librarian
University of Rhode Island Libraries
Twitter: @vagrantscholar

Description

Short talk on literate programming with hands-on exercises using RStudio, RMarkdown, and GitHub.

Prerequisites

During the talk, the audience will have access to my RStudio Server so only a web browser will be required. For anyone not attending who wants to try the examples, a free account on RStudio Cloud will work or a local installation of RStudio, with LaTeX and git enabled. The following R packages are used:

• ggplot2
• readxl
• haven
• dplyr
• tidyr
• knitr
• kableExtra

Course materials

• GitHub repository
• HTML version of slides

Schedule

Description	Time
Setup	5 minutes
Motivation for literate programming	5 minutes
RStudio + RMarkdown + knitr	5 minutes
RMarkdown exercise	15 minutes
Academic paper: working example	10 minutes

Acknowledgements

• Data Carpentry. (https://github.com/datacarpentry/rr-literate-programming)
• Project TIER. (https://www.projecttier.org/)
• Gapminder. (http://www.gapminder.org/data/)