Overview

Go through a brute force introduction into R, R Markdown, the RStudio IDE, version management with Git and GitHub’s classroom functionality to get ready for solving the upcoming assignment problems and submitting your solutions.

Learning objectives

At the end of this unit you should be able to

• tell the difference between an R and an R markdown script,
• create R and R markdown scripts and run and compile them,
• sign in into the class assignment room of this course at GitHub for cloning your personal GitHub course repository to your local computer,
• push and pull files in your repository between the remote GitHub server and your local computer, and
• compile an HTML file in RStudio with R markdown in your local GitHub repository, commit changes locally and push them to the server.