Lab 6 - GitHub

Lab 6 / Week Something

Directions

GitHub Pages

1. Review this short description on version control, git, and GitHub. What Is GitHub? A Beginner’s Introduction to GitHub
2. Review this short description on “GitHub Pages” – About GitHub Pages.
3. Follow along in class to reproduce this github repository on your own website. This turns a git hub repository on GitHub into a website.
   • Github repository: https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io
   • Web pages: https://jayrobwilliams.com/posts/2020/06/academic-website/
   • Note that the web page site is basically a tutorial on what and how to change the site.
4. Modify the _config.yml file accordingly.
5. Change/replace the image with your image.
6. Change the _pages/cv.md to reflect your resume, using what you now know about Markdown to visually represent your resume in a simple format.
7. Please do not make extensive changes, we will do that over time.

Raster Data

1. Install the R package Rcpp first, then install terra.
2. Please turn in all the Luxembourg maps from this page: https://rspatial.org/spatial/9-maps.html
   • To do this, you’ll need to review several sections. The first is Raster data.
   • Then Reading and Writing Spatial Data.
   • Review Coordinate Reference Systems.
   • Review Raster data manipulation.

Turn-in

What to turn-in

1. Turn in a single PDF.
   • On the first page, please include a short header. Please also include a link to your GitHub page and your GitHub website. Note that these are different. Please also include a small screenshot of your GitHub page.
   • Graduate students only: Review Perry Carter’s Geography, Race, and Quantification and write a short response to how this paper might influence or affect your work or map-making.
   • The following pages should be the outputs from your Rmd, output to HTML, then printed to PDF.