Lab-0

Technology Introduction

Dr. Elijah Meyer

Duke University
STA 199 - Summer 2023

2023-08-30

Introductions

— Meet the TAs!

— Introduce yourself

Goals For Today

– Connect R and GitHub so you can participate in STA199 (IMPORTANT)

– Play with R

Lab Expectations

— Introduce lab assignment (5-10 minutes, longer today)

— Work on the lab assignment (you can find it on the course website). You will work with others but your submission must be your own for the first several labs.

— Lab may end with important announcements

— If you don’t finish labs in-class they will typically be due on Wednesday at 11:59 pm.

Lab-0 Expectations

– Lab 0 is not graded or turned in

– See R-code for the first time

– Hook up R to GitHub

What is R and RStudio?

– R is a statistical programming language

– RStudio is a convenient interface for R

– This is what we will use to create visualizations and analyze data throughout the semester

– More on this later in-class….

R-Studio

– Reserve a STA198-1991 RStudio container

– Go to https://cmgr.oit.duke.edu/containers

– Click Reserve Container for the STA198-199 container

– The R container can be found here

Creating a GitHub Account

Go to github.com and create a GitHub account

Here are useful suggestions on picking a username here

Note - This is something that you may use outside of academia. I would avoid putting something silly….

Hooking up R to GitHub

Why is this so important?

– We will distribute in-class activities, homework, labs, and exams using GitHub

– You can not participate in the course unless you can access these assessments on GitHub

– You must complete lab-0 to be able to do so! So, let’s get into it!

Lab-0

To begin navigate to the schedule page on our website

You can find Lab on https://sta199-f23-1.github.io/ (Bookmark this website!)

— under the notes column, copy the link and paste the url into a browser or click here

– click the download button (see below)

– open the qmd file in R

– click on the icon under the labs column for lab instructions

Remember

No programming experience is required or expected to take this class. Come to lecture, lab and office hours. It’s okay to be confused. Stick with it, you will get the hang of it!

Survey

You will be unable to participate in STA199 unless you fill out the Getting to know you survey on Sakai. You can find this here

Please take a moment and do so now if you did not do this on Tuesday during class.