Publishing Research With Knitr And R

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Code4Lib 2016 Workshop

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This workshop introduces the participants the fundementals of literate programming using the R Statistical Package, the Knitr Package and Shiny.

The contents are primary samples and other materials to be used in the workshop.

Tentative Schedule

9:00 - 9:30 Brief Introduction to R and R Studio

• Introductions

• History of R

• Literate Programming and Open Science

• Tour of R and R Studio

9:30 - 10:00 Knitr with Markdown and Latex

• Make Default Documents

• Explanation

  • Code Chunks
  • Chunk Labels
  • Chunk options

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 11:00 More with Knitr

• Code Chunk Options

• Figures

• Tables

• CSS

11:00 - 11:30 Presentations with Knitr

• Making Slides

• Different Slide Modules

• Layouts

11:30 - 12:00 Play Time / OverRun

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:00 - 14:00 Introduction to Shiny

• Basic Concepts

• Limits of Shiny

• Hello World Application

• Adding A Figure

14:00 - 15:00 Exploring Shiny

• Input Widgets

• Reactive functions

• Formatting/Layouts

• CSS

15:00 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 16:00 More Shiny

• Shiny Presentations

• Publishing to Shiny Apps

• Additional Topics

16:00 - 16:30 Play Time/Advanced Topics