cm004 2016-09-15 Tuesday overview

• Please take this survey (yes of course it’s a Shiny app!):
  • http://shiny.stat.ubc.ca/STAT545/stat545-basic-info/
  • this is how we get your GitHub username, match you against the course list, and give you a private course repository within the STAT 545 Organization
  • username and password for survey given in class
• GitHub!!
  • Accept our invitation to join the STAT545-UBC Organization.
  • Find your personal repository. If your name is “Jennifer Bryan”, it will be named “bryan_jennifer”. In class, you are going to claim it!
  • Watch the repository where we have class discussion in the Issues: https://github.com/STAT545-UBC/Discussion/issues. Unless your question is personal, please ask it there. You will get a faster, better answer and others will benefit. Search there (including closed issues) for lots of good info!
• R Markdown!!
  • We will test drive R markdown together in class.
• Care and feeding of data frames!
  • In our first R Markdown document, in your new private repository, we will explore the Gapminder data.
  • Basic care and feeding of data in R
• First homework will be due midnight Tuesday September 20, but preferably before class. Go to office hours if struggling!
  • Homework 01: Edit README.md, use R Markdown to explore Gapminder