Research Principles and Best Practices: Task
TASK
After this section, you should take a break from the lecture and check the first screencast. It is about the practical implementation of some of the recommendations, principles, and best practices described in the previous two sections. The idea is that you follow the procedure shown in the video on your own computer. To achieve that, you need to install the following tools and create a GitHub account:
- Install R, RStudio, and the packages “rmarkdown” and “knitr”: https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/installing-R-windows-mac-ubuntu
- Install git: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git
- Create GitHub account: https://github.com/
- Link to repository used in the screencast: https://github.com/MarkusKonk/binder_template_rmarkdown
- Link to Binder created based on repository: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/MarkusKonk/binder_template_rmarkdown/main?urlpath=rstudio
Share your experiences with this task with your fellow learners. Did you manage to use the tools to organize your data, code, and text?
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