Week 1/2: Kick-off

Practical (Wednesday)

Kick-off session: lets get to know each other and the course.

Lecture (Thursday)

Cancelled. Take some time for introspection, meditate, and reflect on your research question.

Practical (Wednesday): Setting up your workstation

  • Preparing everything for Scientific Computing
    • Acquire access to sc.uni-leipzig.de
    • Get a Github account if you don’t have one yet
    • Connect your PC and the SC Account with your Github account
  • R recap (the corresponding chapters can be found in the R4DS book – _online)
    • RMarkdown/Quarto – chapters 28 & 29
    • dplyr – chapter 4
    • tidyr – chapter 6
    • ggplot2 – chapters 2 & 10 & 11 & 12
    • purrr & loops in different flavors – chapter 27
    • functional programming – chapter 26
    • set up reticulate in RStudio – online