This package contains materials to support the Modern Techniques in Modelling (MTM) course offered by the LSHTM. The content presented in this repository is intended for the short course participants only and may not be redistributed beyond the capacity of this short course.
The MTM package is not available on CRAN at this time. You may install manually from this repository, but will likely find using the remotes package the easier option. With remotes installed, from an R prompt: remotes::install_github('cmmid/MTM'). Running this initial command to install MTM will also install all package dependencies that you would need for this short course.
If you have a company- or organization-managed computer, you might not be able to install packages or update R. We generally recommend that you use a personal computer for this short course. If you cannot, we recommend that you use the web-based R-Studio. You will need to create an account, but the free level is sufficient for this course. Once you have an account, create a new project, and consistently use that project throughout the short course.
The first function that you are likely to run from the package MTM is likely scripts(). This function helps you download local copy of MTM content using three arguments:
path: accepts a string that point to the location where you would like to save MTM contents. By default, this path is set to~/Downloads/MTM.overwrite: default set toFALSEbut can be set toTRUEas needed. When set to TRUE, the function will try and re-download the script files to overwrite what already exists.what: default set to"scripts", which allows you to create a local copy of the course Practicals. This argument may be set to"solutions"as needed.
If contents have already been downloaded to the target path, and overwrite is set to FALSE, running this function would not make any changes - it will only remind you where the target contents have been saved.