First Draft

The first draft of your project will be assessed by your peers in GitHub. The objectives of the peer evaluation are:

• Expose you to the work of your peers so you know what others are working on
• Provide an opportunity to share your knowledge to improve their project

You should use the project website template (or similar) to generate a html version of your project report. If your project requires any data not available in public repositories, you should put it in a folder called /data in your project’s home directory and then import it into R with read.csv('data/filname.csv') or similar so that anyone with a copy of the repository can re-create the HTML output.

Required components of first draft

1. Introduction [~ 200 words]: Clearly stated background and questions / hypotheses / problems being addressed. Sets up the analysis in an interesting and compelling way.
2. Data: Script downloads at least one dataset automatically through the internet or loads the data from the data/ folder. This could use a direct download (e.g. download.file()) or an API (e.g. anything from ROpenSci).
3. Figure: The HTML file includes at least one figure of the data.
4. Reproducibility: The .Rmd should generate the HTML output when “Build Website” is clicked.

Common issues

1. Importing data from somewhere on your computer. You should not have any commands such as read.csv("~/projects/inputdata.csv") that read any data from your computer other than the data/ folder in your repository.