Introduction
This book is part of a workshop series led by Christelinda Laureijs, Elizabeth Stregger, and Dr. Julia Riley. We are a group of enthusiastic R coders with a passion for open science and educational outreach! We created this book for three reasons:
- To provide curious learners with a useful resource beyond the workshops.
- To give a quick overview to anyone who wants to get started with setting up R, managing their projects, and writing papers with R.
- To gather tips, tricks and links to other resources all in one document.
0.1 Workshops
This book is divided into three chapters associated with each workshop:
1. Welcome and Introducing a Tidy Workflow
These skills will help in with organization for your research project, collaborations, and ensuring transparency and broad impact.
- How to set up R, RStudio, LaTeX, and required packages
- Tidy projects and data management strategies
- Tidy coding practices
- Organizing your research project
2. Git with it
After this section, you’ll have an understanding of how you can track changes with Git, share your work with GitHub, reuse open code, and contribute to open projects.
- Setting up Git on your computer
- Creating a repository
- Tracking changes to your project
- Exploring the history of a project
- Collaborating in GitHub
3. Reproducible Scientific Writing with R
All the skills from the previous chapters come together in this last section. You will learn how to write a paper completely within R - no more copying and pasting between different platforms!
- Creating publication-ready figures and tables
- Managing citations
- Organizing a paper into chapters
- Customizing your paper
- Extract statistical values to insert directly into the paper
0.2 Files
Throughout this book, we will provide links to files in the GitHub repository for this book. To make it easier to work with files, we have sometimes attached files directly in the book. Here is an example of a .csv file that you can download: