Workshop on Writing Reusable R code

Taught by Ritika Giri Spring Quarter of 2024 Northwestern University's Research Computing and Data Services as part of the Next Steps in R workshop series.

Getting Started

• Download the materials to your machine by clicking on the green "Code" button on the top right and selecting "Download ZIP".
• Unzip the downloaded folder, and double-click on the .RProj file to open up the R Project in RStudio.
• Open nsir-writing-reusable-code.qmd and work through the materials.

Concepts

• Documenting well
• Organizing project files
• Script everything
• DRY - Don't repeat yourself
• Automate what you can
• Environment and version control

Components

• README.md markdown file outlining the repository
• .Rproj folder maintaining an R Project for this directory
• nsir-writing-reusable-code.qmd Quarto document with the workshop contents
• utilities.R Rscript for demonstrating source()

Required Installs

• R and RStudio