DanyangDai/teachr

An R package to aid teaching of introduction to R

teachr

An R package to aid teaching of introduction to R

Literature Review

• Look at existing R packages for teaching statistics and summarise what is done, e.g. CRAN Task view for teaching statistics
• Gather some introduction to R materials:
  • https://resources.numbat.space/
  • https://rladiessydney.org/courses/ryouwithme/
• Look at:
  • learnr
  • gradethis
  • swirl
  • R exams http://www.r-exams.org/

Topics

1. Installing R + RStudio IDE + tour of RStudio IDE
2. R Programming Basics (e.g. assignment, basic arithmetics, vectors, list, ...)
3. R folder and file structure (Setting up R project, tips for best ways to organise analytical projects, etc)
4. Reading data into R (base + readr)
5. Basics of data cleaning with R using dplyr + tidyr
6. Basics of plotting in R with ggplot2
7. Functional mapping in R with purrr
8. How to ask for help (reprex)
9. Basic linear regression with lm() and summary statistics with summary()
10. Basic R Markdown

Goals

• Build an infrastructure to easily write multiple choice quizzes for topics listed above
• Write a number of multiple choice quizzes
• Curate some local and fresh data suitable for teaching