Lab 2 - tidycensus and RStudio

Lab 2 / Week 2

Notes for weeks 2 and 3.

RStudio Settings

Before continuing, ensure that you have these setting changed in RStudio.

Lab 2 Background Readings

• See Analyzing US Census Data: Methods, Maps, and Models in R
• See Guide for Reproducible Research
• See Advantages and Limits in the Adoption of Reproducible Research and R-Tools for the Analysis of Omic Data
• See all of Posit’s Cheatsheets
• See Markdown Cheatsheets
• See Visual design guidelines
• See Good enough practices in scientific computing. Wilson, Greg, Jennifer Bryan, Karen Cranston, Justin Kitzes, Lex Nederbragt, and Tracy K. Teal. 2017. “Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing.” PLOS Computational Biology 13 (6): e1005510.
• See Data Organization in Spreadsheets. Broman, Karl W., and Kara H. Woo. 2018. “Data Organization in Spreadsheets.” The American Statistician, April.

Turn-in

What to turn-in

Please do the R work in R Quarto. Render your Qmd file (to a web page / HTML, this is the default). Then save or print the output to PDF and turn in only the PDF file(s).

Work through Chapters 1 through 4 of Analyzing US Census Data. Use an Qmd (Quarto) file to keep track of your progress.

At the beginning of the Qmd file, use Quarto formatting to answer these questions:

-   What worked well for you and what didn't work?
-   What do you see as the value in using RQaurto? 
-   Based on lab 2 so far, what things would you like to do?

Hint: Use PDFSam (or install it with Chocolatey) to merge multiple PDFs together. For example, create a layout in QGIS and export those maps to PDF. Then use PDFSam to merge those files.