https://github.com/mit-lcp/bst209-2024

Course materials for BST209
https://github.com/mit-lcp/bst209-2024

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Course materials for BST209

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mit-lcp/bst209-2024
• Owner: MIT-LCP
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-04-11T17:25:16.000Z (9 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-13T17:46:22.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-05T23:13:00.645Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: HTML
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• Size: 57.5 MB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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## BST 209 Course Repository

### Summer 2024

Welcome to the BST 209 course repository! 

Canvas link: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/141013/assignments/syllabus

# Instructors

- Leo Celi: [email protected]

- Heather Mattie: [email protected] 

- Chrystinne Fernandes: [email protected]

- Tom Pollard: [email protected]

# Teaching Assistants

- Fredrik Willumsen Haug: [email protected]

- Serena Tsai: [email protected]

# Downloading course materials using Git with RStudio

You can use Git within RStudio to download the course materials. If you

haven't cloned the repository before, follow these instructions:

1. Click on the green "Clone or Download" on Github and copy the link.

2. Open RStudio, and go to File > New Project > Version Control > Git,

and paste in the link you just copied. Under "Create Project as

Subdirectory of", browse and select a folder where you want the course

materials to go.

3. Press "Create Project". This will create a folder called `bst209-2024`

in the folder you selected in step 2.

4. Now, you can open this project using the projects tab in the upper

right of RStudio, or going to File > Open Project and then navigating

to the BST209-2024 folder and opening the `.Rproj` file.

If you already cloned the repository outside of RStudio (e.g. using

Git Bash), you can associate the directory that was created in that

step with RStudio. 

In RStudio, go to File > New Project > Existing Directory and click on 

the bst209 folder.  Then click "Create Project". Then you can follow

step 4 above to open the project when you launch RStudio. 

You can read more about RStudio projects here:

https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200526207-Using-Projects

# Updating the course repo

Once you cloned the course repository and want to get updates, you must

use `git pull` to get updates.

In RStudio, if you followed the instructions above, simply navigate

to the Git tab and press the Pull button. In terminal / Git bash, use

`cd` to navigate to the `bst209-2024` folder, then run `git pull`.

# Taking notes on course materials

If you would like to take notes and write in the course materials, you can

save a copy of the file you want to take notes on with the filename

containing `personal`. 

For example, if you want to take notes on the

file `00-motivation.Rmd`, save it as `00-motivation_personal.Rmd`. Then,

you can edit the `00-motivation_personal.Rmd` file. We have configured

Git to ignore any files that contain `personal` in the filename, so 

any changes you make won't show up in Git. This will

allow you to update the course repo without any issues.