Day 1
In-Class Notes from day 1
Welcomes
Name & Pronouns
Any prior quant/programming experience?
Do you have data?
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D&D Class
- We’d realistically all be wizards, but some of us have aspirations to be more charismatic or dexterous.
We did:
- Looked at the Course Website
Walked through the Welcome notes.
Looked at GitHub and Codespaces.
Questions that came up
- Is using things like GitHub Codespaces or other virtual machines the way things are moving?
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It depends. I do most of my work locally, but working with remote virtual machines is useful when:
You want to do some kinds of stats that are too much for your local computer to handle.
You’re teaching a class, and don’t want to debug everyone’s personal computer, when it’s not the point of the course.
- Why isn’t Git showing up in RStudio?
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2 things
- You need to be inside an RStudio Project with a git repository initialized.
- Git needs to be installed.
These should all be managed correctly if you’re in a GitHub Codespace I’ve configured for the course. If you want to get adventurous and create your own Codespace, check out the instructions here.
- Do we have to use a GitHub Codespace, or could we just work locally?
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You can work locally, but I can’t promise to provide tech support for your system. In Codespaces, I can directly access and try to fix anything that goes wrong.
- My local RStudio isn’t connected to Github.
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Things are a little more complicated when working locally. See some of the following resources.
- If I really like VS Code, can I just use that?
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Sure. The upsides to RStudio are the visual editor for quarto documents, and possibly better hinting/autocomplete options. But it’s not a requirement that you use RStudio for your projects.
Reuse
Citation
@online{fruehwald2024,
author = {Fruehwald, Josef},
title = {Day 1},
date = {2024-08-26},
url = {https://lin611-2024.github.io/notes/in-class/2024-08-26_day1.html},
langid = {en}
}