5  Overview

In order to participate in this workshop, you must complete everything in this section and finish with completing the survey (Chapter 9) at the end. These tasks are meant to provide everyone with the necessary setup and a shared foundation for the workshop.

Depending on your prior knowledge and skills, these tasks could take between TIME hrs to finish, so we suggest planning some time to complete them. While many of the tasks are mostly readings, they are important in making sure you get the most out of the workshop.

5.1 How to read this website

We try to be consistent with the way to present certain information in this website. Specifically, we follow some conventions that you should be aware of:

  • Folder names always end with /, for example data/ means the data folder.
  • File names always end with their file extension, for example content.md means the file is a Markdown file.

For R-specific conventions:

  • R variables are always shown as is. For instance, for the code x <- 10, x is a variable because it was assigned with 10.
  • Functions always end with (), for instance mean() or read_csv().
  • Sometimes functions have their package name appended with :: so that you run the code from the specific package, since we likely haven’t loaded the package with library(). For instance, to install packages from GitHub using the {pak} package we use pak::pak("user/package_name"). You’ll learn about this more later.

5.2 Summary of tasks

Here’s a quick overview of the tasks you need to do. Specific details about them are found as you work through the tasks.

If you haven’t already, go through the workshop overview section, including the Syllabus, Is this for you?, and Learning design to get an overview of what this workshop contains and the learning design behind the workshop material.

After that, please go through the the pre-workshop tasks designed to establish a shared foundation for the start of the workshop.

Complete these R-specific tasks:

  1. Install a version of R, RStudio, Quarto, and Git that is as updated as possible in Chapter 6. For some people, depending on their institution, this task can take the longest amount of time because you have to contact your IT to install these packages.
  2. Install necessary R packages.

Do these general tasks:

  1. TODO: Add more tasks
  2. Read the syllabus (Chapter 1).
  3. Read the Code of Conduct (Chapter 8).
  4. Complete the pre-workshop survey (Chapter 9): This survey is pretty quick, maybe ~10 minutes. There will be some bits from the tasks that you will need to paste into this survey.

Check each section for exact details on completing these tasks.

Tip

You will be taken through the pre-workshop tasks in order by clicking the arrow at the bottom of each page :arrow_right: