Pre-Work

Post-Workshop Update

Git and GitHub were not used in this workshop. The Website modules were updated to use Netlify Drop instead of Git and GitHub.

Day 1

• Download or update the latest versions of R, RStudio, Quarto:

  • R 4.3 (or 4.2 or above): https://cran.r-project.org

  • RStudio 2023.06.0+421 or above: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop

  • Quarto 1.3.433 or above: https://quarto.org/docs/get-started

• Install the following R packages by opening RStudio and typing the following in the Console ¹

pkg_list <- c(
  "tinytex", "quarto", "knitr", "here", "yaml"
)
install.packages(pkg_list)

• Register an account with Quarto Pub[^2]: https://quartopub.com

• Download and unzip day01-exercises.zip. Then, go to RStudio > File > New Project > Existing Directory and navigate to the unzipped day01-exercises folder and create an RStudio project² in there and open it.

Day 2

• Keep adding content to replication-pkg/
• Check out Quarto websites and see if there are any features you’d particularly like to learn:
  • See Awesome Quarto or my website cynthiahqy.com

Footnotes

1. See this video tutorial for step-by-step instructions

2. For more about RStudio Projects see this explainer