Week 4 - Literate Programming with R Markdown

Introduction

All homework exercises and also live coding exercises will be written in the R Markdown file format. This unit will help you get more comfortable using this file format for writing. You will submit your research questions and design as part of this assignment.

Prerequisites

We assume that you have:

1. Completed Assignment 1 & 2 & 3 of this course. If you have not, follow the instructions here:

• Assignment 1: https://rbtl-fs22.github.io/website/am-01-hello-github.html
• Assignment 2: https://rbtl-fs22.github.io/website/am-02-hello-rstudio.html
• Assignment 3: https://rbtl-fs22.github.io/website/am-03-reference-management.html

Learning Objectives

In this unit, you will learn to:

• explain the difference between the markdown (.md) and R Markdown (.Rmd) file format
• paraphrase how a file written in a markup language like markdown (.md) differs from a file written in a proprietary file format like .docx
• identify four components of an R markdown file (YAML, code chunk, R code, markdown)

Terminology

• http://opendatahandbook.org/glossary/en/terms/open-format/
• http://opendatahandbook.org/glossary/en/terms/proprietary/
• http://opendatahandbook.org/glossary/en/terms/machine-readable/
• https://glosario.carpentries.org/en/#markup_language
• https://glosario.carpentries.org/en/#markdown

Tasks

1. Work through this Markdown Tutorial: https://commonmark.org/help/tutorial/
2. Read all definitions under Section Terminology.
3. Watch the video to clone the repo for this assignment to the RStudio Cloud and work through the exercises.
4. Open an issue on your repo on GitHub to inform us you have completed the homework.

Video

Acknowledgements

The settings that are used in these instructions are inspired by Cortex Futura: How to install Zotero, BetterBibTex and Zotfile.