Literate Programming, Quarto, and Workflows
Content for Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Today we’ll focus on some of the tools for reproducible workflows using R. We’ll introduce Quarto as a means of authoring different kinds of documents. We’ll talk about literate programming and leaving breadcrumbs for yourself (and others). Finally, we’ll begin to work through the ideas of workflow planning
Readings
Authoring in Quarto - an intro to Quarto for developing different kinds of documents. Lots of other resources linked here!!
Pseudocode: what it is and how to write it - A nice blogpost by Sara Metawalli the sketches out the logic of pseudocode and why it can be helpful.
The Whole Game - from Wickham et al., R for Data Science (Wickham and Grolemund 2016). Focus on the sections that begin with “Workflow” to get a sense for how we’ll start putting the pieces together.
Scripts, algorithms, and functions - chapter 11 in in Lovelace et al., Geocomputation with R (Lovelace et al. 2019) introduces some concepts behind geospatial programming. A few of these pieces will make more sense in the next few weeks, but the general advice on constructing code and planning analyses is useful now.
Objectives
By the end of today you should be able to:
Develop basic docs with Quarto
Understand the basics of creating readable code
Use pseudocode to sketch out a computational problem
Slides
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