Setup and Summarising Data

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# Setup and Summarising Data
### Jennifer Mankin
### 28 January 2022

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## Welcome to Skills Lab!

In these sessions we will practice `R` together!

* Demonstrate how to use RStudio efficiently

* Tips, tricks, and "cheats"

* Walk through code and output

* Prepare for the **take-away paper assessment**

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## The Take-Away Paper (TAP)

In Week 7 you will have a **take-away paper**

- Set of tasks to complete in RMarkdown, using `R`

- Limited time (48-hour period)

- Submit a **knitted** RMarkdown as your submission

To prepare for this:

- Come to Skills Lab and do the tutorials and worksheets!

- We will practice everything you need to do

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## Practice Makes Possible

- Learning `R` takes time, patience, and dedication

- Don't be surprised if it doesn't come easily!

### Key Strategies
  
Practice `R` consistently

- 15 minutes a day is better than 2 hours all at once!
  
Ask for help!

- All the time, every week if necessary
  
- Use practicals, Piazza, and help desks
  
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## The Only Rule That Matters

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## What Can You Do?

Set aside time evaluate honestly:

- Where are you at now?
  
  - With stats, `R`, your other modules and responsibilities
  
- How much time/energy/effort/other resources are you willing/able to put in?
  
- Based on that, what can you **reasonably** expect?

Base your expectations on your reality, not on the ideal

Whatever you decide you can do, shoot for that!
 
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We will support you however we can, whatever your goal

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## Beware Of...

- Letting pressure/anxiety/fear of failure prevent you from doing anything or making any progress

- Feeling overwhelmed but not asking for help

- Putting off the work on this module for days and weeks but then panicking at assessment times over getting a first

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## This One Weird Trick

Start practicing now to uncouple self-worth from academic achievement!!!

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You are NOT your marks!

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## Making RStudio Snazzy (and Accessible!)

Useful settings under Tools > Global Options!

- Appearance: Choose a theme

- Code > Display: Tick "Highlight R function calls" and "Rainbow parentheses"

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- Console: Tick "Show syntax highlighting in console input"

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## Keyboard Shortcuts

See all under Tools > Show Command Palette or change under Tools > Modify Keyboard Shortcuts

*Note*: CTRL will likely be CMD on Macs!

- CTRL + Enter: run the current line or selection

- tab: indent, or auto-fill

- CTRL + shift + M: insert the pipe `%>%`

- CTRL + shift + I: insert a new code chunk
  - For this one you may need to change the default!

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## Asking Answerable Questions

In order to get useful help with R, you must give us useful information. This question **is not answerable**:

>"I am confused how to install tidyverse. I just get an error. What do I do?"

If you need help with R, use [the help template on Piazza](https://canvas.sussex.ac.uk/courses/17281/external_tools/7340) to give us the info we need to help you.

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## User-Friendly Help Documentation

Beginner-focused help and info documents with `introverse`

[Github Documentation](https://github.com/spielmanlab/introverse)

```r
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("spielmanlab/introverse")
```

### Example

```r
library(introverse)
introverse::show_topics()
introverse::get_help("filter")
```

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## Let's Have a Look!