Project 0 (optional)

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Information for Project 0 (entirely optional, but hopefully useful and fun!)

Stephanie Hicks https://stephaniehicks.com/ (Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins)https://www.jhsph.edu
08-31-2021

Background

Due date: Sept 9 at 1:29pm

Using the tools we learned in the first week (e.g. R, RStudio and Github). Let’s apply them in a small (but also comprehensive) exercise.

Part 1

This part of the project is to ensure that you have successfully set up your computing environment. Please email (use the Subject line: 140.776 Setup) the Course Instructor (Dr. Stephanie Hicks) at the following information:

Setting up your computing environment

  1. Your name, JHED ID (if applicable).

  2. The type of computer/operating system you are using (Windows, Mac, Unix/Linux, other)

  3. The version of R that you have installed on your computer. To do this, start up R and run the following in the R console and include the output in your email.

print(R.version.string)
Printing the R version string
  1. The version of RStudio that you have installed on your computer. To do this start up RStudio and in the R console window, run the following and again include the output in your email:
print(RStudio.Version()$version)

  1. If you have a GitHub username, please include this in your email. If you do not have a GitHub username, read https://happygitwithr.com, sign up for GitHub, and include your new username in your email to me.

  2. To make sure git is installed on your system, use the ‘Terminal’ (e.g. it’s next to the R Console within RStudio) (or whatever you use), run the following and include the output in your email:

For example, this is mine:

git --version
git version 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)

If you have any trouble with any of the steps above, try to first post on the discussion board on CoursePlus. The TAs and I will be checking it frequently, but other students may also be helpful in their replies. You can also use other resources to get help (Google, R4DS, colleagues/friends/relatives with R/Markdown experience, etc.). Still, try to do as much as possible yourself. We will use all the bits you are learning here repeatedly during this course.

Part 2

This part of the project is to help you introduce yourself (and your interests!) to others in this course. You will create a new GitHub repository and build a small website about yourself.

1. Create a GitHub repo for your website

Create a new GitHub repository titled biostat776-intro-<firstname>-<lastname> (where you replace <firstname> with your first name and <lastname> with your last name) in your own personal GitHub account (e.g. https://github.com/<yourgithubusername>/biostat776-intro-<firstname>-<lastname>).

For example, you can find an example that I created for myself at

2. Build a website using R Markdown

Using one of the many ways we discussed in class (e.g. a simple R Markdown website, blogdown, distill, etc), create a new project in RStudio with the appropriate files. For example, you might include the following information:

If you want, feel free to get creative and include other things. You can play with RMarkdown if you wish to, e.g., you can try to include some table or a video, etc.

3. Include a README.md file

Your project repository should include a README.md file (if it was not included already).

Edit the repository README.md file. Typically it will only contain the name of your repository with a # sign in front. The # represents a level 1 heading in Markdown. Change the headline and call it “Introducing myself” (or something like that). Underneath write something like “This website contains a short introduction of Your Name.”

Make sure the 2 files (README.md and especially index.Rmd / index.html) look the way you want. Make changes until everything works.

4. Deploy your website

Depending on how you want to deploy your website, the following may or may not be relevant to you. In general, you want to make sure you have initialized your project to use git (i.e. you can type git init to initialize the repository to use git. Add and commit your changes. Push your changes and deploy your website.

Following steps 2-4, here is my example website:

5. Share your website

In class on Sept 9, I will show as many websites as I can from Courseplus!

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Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Hicks (2021, Aug. 31). Statistical Computing: Project 0 (optional). Retrieved from https://stephaniehicks.com/jhustatcomputing2021/projects/2021-08-31-project-0/

BibTeX citation

@misc{hicks2021project,
  author = {Hicks, Stephanie},
  title = {Statistical Computing: Project 0 (optional)},
  url = {https://stephaniehicks.com/jhustatcomputing2021/projects/2021-08-31-project-0/},
  year = {2021}
}