Meet the toolkit ⚒

# Meet the toolkit <br> ⚒

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# Reproducible data analysis

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## Reproducibility checklist

Near-term goals:

- Are the tables and figures reproducible from the code and data?
- Does the code actually do what you think it does?
- In addition to what was done, is it clear **why** it was done? 
(e.g., how were parameter settings chosen?)

Long-term goals:

- Can the code be used for other data?
- Can you extend the code to do other things?

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## Toolkit

![toolkit](img/toolkit.png)

- Scriptability `$\rightarrow$` R
- Literate programming (code, narrative, output in one place) `$\rightarrow$` R Markdown
- Version control `$\rightarrow$` Git / GitHub

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# R and RStudio

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## What is R/RStudio?

- R is a statistical programming language
- RStudio is a convenient interface for R (an integreated development environment, IDE)
- At its simplest:<sup>➥</sup>
    - R is like a car’s engine
    - RStudio is like a car’s dashboard

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## Let's take a tour - R / RStudio

Concepts introduced:

- Console
- Using R as a calculator
- Environment
- Loading and viewing a data frame
- Accessing a variable in a data frame
- R functions

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## R essentials

A short list (for now):

- Functions are (most often) verbs, followed by what they will be applied to in parantheses:

```r
do_this(to_this)
do_that(to_this, to_that, with_those)
```

- Columns (variables) in data frames are accessed with `$`:

```r
dataframe$var_name
```

- Packages are installed with the `install.packages` function and loaded with the `library` function, once per session:

```r
install.packages("package_name")
library(package_name)
```

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## tidyverse

- The tidyverse is an opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science. 
- All packages share an underlying philosophy and a common grammar. 
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# R Markdown

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## R Markdown

- Fully reproducible reports -- each time you knit the analysis is ran from the beginning
- Simple markdown syntax for text
- Code goes in chunks, defined by three backticks, narrative goes outside of chunks

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## Let's take a tour - R Markdown

Concepts introduced:

- Copying a project of mine
- Knitting documents
- R Markdown and (some) R syntax

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## <i class="fas fa-laptop"></i> `AE 02 - Bechdel`

The Bechdel test asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man, and there must be two women named characters.

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- Go to RStudio Cloud and make a copy of the application exercise project and launch it.
- Open and knit the R Markdown document.

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## R Markdown help

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[R Markdown cheat sheet](https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/raw/master/rmarkdown-2.0.pdf)
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![](img/rmd-cheatsheet.png)
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Markdown Quick Reference  
`Help -> Markdown Quick Reference`
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![](img/md-cheatsheet.png)
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## Workspaces

Remember this, and expect it to bite you a few times as you're learning to work 
with R Markdown: The workspace of your R Markdown document is separate from the Console!

- Run the following in the console

```r
x <- 2
x * 3
```
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All looks good, eh?
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- Then, add the following chunk in your R Markdown document

```r
x * 3
```
.question[
What happens? Why the error?
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## How will we use R Markdown?

- Every assignment / report / project / etc. is an R Markdown document
- You'll always have a template R Markdown document to start with
- The amount of scaffolding in the template will decrease over the semester

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# Git and GitHub

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## Version control

- We introduced GitHub as a platform for collaboration
- But it's much more than that...
- It's actually desiged for version control

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## Versioning

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## Versioning

with human readable messages

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## Why do we need version control?

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# Git and GitHub tips

- Git is a version control system -- like “Track Changes” features from Microsoft Word on steroids. GitHub is the home for your Git-based projects on the internet -- like DropBox but much, much better).

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- There are millions of git commands -- ok, that's an exaggeration, but there are a lot of them -- and very few people know them all. 99% of the time you will use git to add, commit, push, and pull.

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- We will be doing Git things and interfacing with GitHub through RStudio, but if you google for help you might come accross methods for doing these things in the command line -- skip that and move on to the next resource unless you feel comfortable trying it out.

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- There is a great resource for working with git and R: [happygitwithr.com](http://happygitwithr.com/). Some of the content in there is beyond the scope of this course, but it's a good place to look for help.

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## Let's take a tour - Git and GitHub

- Concepts introduced:
  - Connect an R project to Github repository
  - Working with a local and remote repository
  - Making a change locally, committing, and pushing
  - Making a change on GitHub and pulling
- There is just a bit more of GitHub that we'll use in this class, but for today this is enough