Workshop Materials

This tutorial will include hands-on coding in R as well as presentations of the methodology.

To work with the code, participants need to:

1. Download and Install R and RStudio

2. Clone the Github repository manncz/edm-rct-tutorial/

3. Install required packages

Below, we include detailed instructions for each of these steps.

Downloading and Installing R and RStudio

1.  Follow instructions here to download and install R. 

   • Pay attention to what your operating system is to install the correct version

2. Follow instructions here to download and install RStudio

Cloning Tutorial Github Repo

"Cloning" means to make a local version of the remote Github repository on your computer. 

There are a couple of options for how to do this:

• Option 1 : Command Line

  1. In the Terminal, navigate to a directory where you would like the tutorial directory to live

  2. Run command:  git clone https://github.com/manncz/edm-rct-tutorial.git

  3. You should now have a directory edm-rct-tutorial/

• Option 2: Download .zip File from GitHub

  1. Just click on this, or:

  2. Go to https://github.com/manncz/edm-rct-tutorial/

  3. Click the green <>Code button at the top right corner (see below)

  4. Select Download ZIP

  5. Unzip the downloaded file edm-rct-tutorial-main.zip by double clicking on it

Install R Packages

All scripts include code to install necessary packages. However, to save time, it would be helpful for everyone to run the code in scripts/_installPackages.R before you get to the workshop or while the workshop is starting.

If you are in RStudio, you can open the script and select Source as shown in the screenshot below:

Additional Resources

• Introduction to RStudio:  https://www.datacamp.com/tutorial/r-studio-tutorial

• GitHub Repo: manncz/edm-rct-tutorial/

• Slides: Please check the Repo above or the following link.