Key Concepts Learned
- Course Overview, Structure, and Grading
- R, Quarto, and Github Basics
Coding Techniques
- Tidyverse vs R
- read.csv reads data as data frames
- read_csv reads data as tibbles (more intuitively formatted)
- Renaming Variables
- to refer to variables with column names that have spaces, you need to surround them with backticks ```
- Quarto Features
- upgraded version of RMD that can work with R, Python, and other languages
- can even be used for websites and slides
Questions & Challenges
- I need more practice on understanding workflows in Github and Quarto
Reflection
- Have used RMD in the past, so excited to learn this new workflow with Quarto
- Applying this knowledge - I may also look at using Github to create a personal portfolio
- Github is considered the industry standard for portfolios and version control