🗓️ Session 8: Project management

This is one of the most underestimated topics. In this session you learn how to adequately set up your working environment on your computer. This means where you should save which files, which directory structure you should use, and how to point the computer to other files on your computer. While this sounds boring at first, taking seriously the insights from this session will save you tons of hours of frustration in the future!

👨‍🏫 Lecture Slides

Either click on the slide area below or click here to download the slides.

🎥 Lecture videos

Currently, no videos are available for this session. Check out the tutorial on project setup instead.

📚 Mandatory Reading

• The tutorial Setting up an R project

Further Reading

While we do not cover this in this course, I highly recommend learning the version control system Git. Personally, I can recommend the following:

• Very concise introduction to Git
• Introduction to GitHub: GitHub skills and the official docs

✍️ Coursework

• Do the exercises ProjectOrga from the DataScienceExercises package that refer to setting up an R project

Quick code for starting the exercises

learnr::run_tutorial(
  name = "ProjectOrga", 
  package = "DataScienceExercises", 
  shiny_args=list("launch.browser"=TRUE))