Chapter 1 Basic Anatomy

A plain text file with a special file extension: .Rmd

What does plain text mean? Everything you see can be typed with a normal keyboard. This means anyone can read and edit a .Rmd file.

What does the file extension do?

Aim to build up vocabulary and intuition around (use default output format here, HTML, and knit with button; consider providing a template to use here and publish to RSConnect quick; highlight how chunk naming works like setup chunk and browsability within IDE [ i.e., table of contents on right] plus how fig.path works):

• metadata (= YAML), → either rmarkdown (for params) or pandoc
• text (= Markdown), [but inline code is processed by rmarkdown r]
• R code (= knitr), [other code too! Today we use for R, but I do want you to know…]
• Output (control with knitr code chunk options).

Formative assessments focus on “if I want to change X, what do I search for?” Activity: Open a new Rmd file- read through it- knit it. → for each activity, do it first (model), then they do (build up muscle memory for knitting bc they’ll have done it like 50 times throughout workshop)

start with prewritten script and work from there- fill in….

nice warmup activity- get in groups, introduce, work through script, what does it do? Annotate, narrate.