Welcome to FES/FOR 505, Advanced R Topics. This is an informal class for students wanting to get a little extra practice in R. We will work together through material in real time.
These are advanced topics in the sense that we cover tools that students are not often exposed to when they are introduced to R at OSU. It can be nice to work through such topics as a group rather than each student taking time to learn on their own.
The class will meet once per week for 1.5 hours over 10 weeks. Each class will be a mix of instruction on the topic, discussion, and active work in R. Materials (slides, links, R scripts) area listed on the Materials page for each class.
The working sessions cover:
Week 01: Introduction to Git/GitHub
Week 02: Build a personal website with distill and postcards
Week 03: Deploy website using GitHub Pages
Week 04: Explore gt for making tables
Week 05: gt flair: colors, images, and themes
Week 06: Learn to write functions in R
Week 07: More Git: collaborators, merge conflicts, and pull requests
Week 08: Interactive graphics and tables
Week 09: Reproducible examples with reprex
Week 10: GitHub issues
We will be working in R via RStudio. Make sure you have up-to-date versions of both of these. Current versions at the start of spring quarter 2021:
R 4.0.4
RStudio 1.4
I’ll be adding to the package list throughout the term as we hammer out exactly what topics will be covered. You’ll want to install these on your computer so you’re ready to go. I’ve added the weeks each package is first used in parentheses.
distill v. 1.2 (Week 2)
postcards v. 0.2.0 (Week 2)
devtools v. 2.3.2 (Week 2)
fontawesome v. 0.1.0 or 0.2.1 (not 0.2.0; Week 2)
gt v. 0.2.2 (Week 4)
webshot v. 0.5.2 (Week 4)
dplyr v. 1.0.5 (Week 4)
tidyr v. 1.1.3 (Week 5)
usethis v. 2.0.1 (Week 7)
gh v. 1.2.1 (Week 7)
htmlwidgets v. 1.5.3 (Week 8)
ggplot2 v. 3.3.3 (Week 8)
palmerpenguins v. 0.1.0 (Week 8)
plotly v. 4.9.3 (Week 8)
DT v. 0.18 (Week 8)
leaflet v. 2.0.4.1 (Week 8)
dygraphs v. 1.1.1.6 (Week 8)
flexdashboard v. 0.5.2 (Week 8)
reprex v. 2.0.0 (Week 9)
datapasta v. 3.1.0 (Week 9)
Code for installing all packages:
install.packages(c("distill", "postcards", "devtools", "fontawesome",
"gt", "webshot", "dplyr", "tidyr", "usethis",
"gh", "htmlwidgets", "ggplot2", "palmerpenguins",
"plotly", "DT", "leaflet", "dygraphs", "flexdashboard",
"reprex", "datapasta"))