Posit (RStudio) Cloud Tutorial for participants in Columbia Mailman SHARP Training

Introduction

Short guide on how to use the great features of RStudio Cloud in conjunction with SHARP Training courses.
This guide assumes the user has functional knowledge of R and RStudio.

Please first read through each of the md files in the basics folder to be able to create an Rstudio Cloud account, log in RStudio Cloud, and clone this GitHub repository (repo).

Then perform a couple of simple exercises in RStudio Cloud in the exercises folder through the cloned GitHub repository.

Total time to complete tasks ~ 1-2 hours max.

This tutorial is NOT a guide to learning R or RStudio in any great depth; there already countless fantastic guides out there!
One example is the RStudio Cloud Primers.

Robbie M Parks 2022.

Thank you to Ahlam Abuawad, Tessa Bloomqvist, Anne Bozack, Vivian Do, Lukas Vlahos, and Abigail Welbourn for feedback.

Contents of project by folder and script

basics

Folder with instructions for beginners to RStudio Cloud (to read through):

01_absolute_basics.md - markdown file to describe basics of potentially new concepts used for RStudio Cloud
02_signing_up.md - markdown file on how to sign up to RStudio Cloud
03_clone_github_project.md - markdown file on how to clone a GitHub project to Your Projects in RStudio Cloud
04_pulling_project_updates.md - markdown file on how to pull GitHub project updates which may have taken place during the SHARP course
05_navigating_RStudio_cloud.md - markdown file on how to navigate RStudio Cloud interface to select current project
06_saving_permanent_copy.md - markdown file on how to make your edits to project and save permanent copy

exercises

Potentially useful exercises to do to further familiarise with RStudio Cloud (to go through in cloned GitHub repository in R Studio Cloud):

01_run_some_basic_R.Rmd - R Markdown script running some basic R on RStudio Cloud
02_write_own_script_then_save.Rmd - R Markdown script to create simple script which can then be saved and downloaded as a part of a custom permanent copy

File structure at the top of the project

basics - folder with instructions for beginners to RStudio Cloud (full details above)
exercises - potentially useful exercises to do to further familiarise with RStudio Cloud (full details above)
images - folder with images used in markdown files
.gitignore - this is usually in any project file and will tell Git/GitHub what to ignore locally with annoying stuff that sometimes get created
create_folder_structure.R - script to initially create and define folder structure if not already there