R Training

Contents

• Package HomePage
• R Setup Guide
• R Shiny Training Resources
• List of Helpful Bookdowns

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Package {rtraining}: R Training Resources, Guides, Tips, and Knowledge Base.
Current version is 0.0.1.

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The goal of rtraining is to provide useful resources, knowledge, and walkthroughs for new R developers.

The package is split into three main areas:

1. R Setup and Configuration: a thorough walkthrough for setting up and configuring R, RStudio, and various other software in an efficient manner.

2. R Workflows: example workflows showcasing the main types of work done with R, including, but not limited to R Data Analysis Projects, Reporting with RMarkdown, R Shiny Applications, R Package Development.

3. R Tips & Tricks: General tips and tricks learned over time from my experiences with R.

Installation

You can install the released version of rtraining from CRAN with:

install.packages("rtraining")

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jimbrig/rtraining")

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The list of dependencies required to install this package is: attachment, chameleon, devtools, knitr, pkgdown, rmarkdown, roxygen2, utils, xfun.

To install the package, you can run the following script

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_local(path = "rtraining_0.0.1.tar.gz")

In case something went wrong, you may want to install dependencies before using:

# Remotes ----
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github('ThinkR-open/chameleon')
# Attachments ----
to_install <- c("xfun")
  for (i in to_install) {
    message(paste("looking for ", i))
    if (!requireNamespace(i)) {
      message(paste("     installing", i))
      install.packages(i)
    }
  }

Once you have the package installed you can open the website directly by running:

library(rtraining)
rtraining::open_pkgdown()

Similarly you can open the package bookdown with:

rtraining::open_guide()