https://github.com/friendly/my6136
A template for students to organize their work for Psy6136
https://github.com/friendly/my6136
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A template for students to organize their work for Psy6136
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/friendly/my6136
- Owner: friendly
- Created: 2025-11-06T01:18:17.000Z (6 months ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2026-01-12T03:36:13.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-01-12T10:32:58.536Z (3 months ago)
- Language: HTML
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- Size: 581 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.Rmd
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README
---
output: github_document
---
```{r, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
collapse = TRUE,
comment = "#>"
)
```
# my6136 
This GitHub repo provides a template you can use to organize your work for
[Psy6136: Categorical Data Analysis](https://friendly.github.io/psy6136/) (or any course). It provides:
* A reasonable organization of folders for your work. Feel free to add any others
```{r eval=FALSE, echo=FALSE}
fs::dir_tree(recurse = FALSE)
```
```
my6136
├── assign
├── data
├── images
├── notes
├── R
└── tutorials
```
* Some templates for using Rmarkdown in assignments or projects and also for setting up R scripts so you "compile" them with [knitr](https://yihui.org/knitr/) to produce
output in HTML, DOCX, PDF, ... The following are provided, just to get you started:
* [Assignment template](assign/assign-template.R): Simple template for using an R script for an assignment. This appears like this in [HTML](assign/assign-template.html) when you `knitr` it.
* [Rmarkdown template](R/RMarkdown-template.Rmd): For a report, with more text than code. Code is in R "chunks"
* [R script template](R/RScript-template.R): For an R script, with output rendered to HTML, DOCX, or PDF
```{r echo=FALSE, eval=FALSE}
fs::dir_ls(regexp = ".*template.*", recurse = TRUE) |>
paste(collapse = "\n") |>
cat()
```
## Getting started
I recommend that you set up an [RStudio project](https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/articles/200526207-Using-RStudio-Projects) for your work in the course, where you can organize your notes and work on assignments, projects, etc.
This repository on GitHub: [my6136](https://github.com/friendly/my6136) provides a template for this.
You can simply [download the ZIP file](https://github.com/friendly/my6136/archive/refs/heads/master.zip) to your computer, unzip it, and then open it in RStudio (double-click on the file `my6136.Rproj`).
### Using GitHub
If you are comfortable using GitHub, you can simply fork & clone this repo to your own account.
Details on this are given in [fork and clone this repo](https://github.com/rstats-tln/fork-and-clone-repo). The images below show
what's involved for `my6136`.
If you don't yet use GitHub, you can easily [create a GitHub account](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/start-your-journey/creating-an-account-on-github) (**highly recommended**: Your future self will thank me!)
## Installing packages
You will need a bunch of R packages for this course. The file [`R/install-vcd-packages.R`](R/install-vcd-packages.R) contains the ones I recommend. Simply run this in RStudio.
### PDF output
In RStudio, rendering scripts and `.Rmd` files to PDF uses [`pandoc`](https://pandoc.org/) to convert to LaTeX `.tex` files and then working `LaTeX`
installation to convert to PDF. The R package [tinytex](https://yihui.org/tinytex/) makes this relatively easy.
## Learning to use Git and GitHub
For more details on using Git and Github for working with R,
see:
* Jenny Bryan's [Getting Started with GitHub](https://jennybc.github.io/2014-05-12-ubc/ubc-r/session2.4_github.html)
* [How to use Git and GitHub with R](https://rfortherestofus.com/2021/02/how-to-use-git-github-with-r)