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An Introduction to R With Hockey Data 🌱

By Meghan Hall

Added Sat Dec, 2021.
What is this?
Excerpt from site: “We’ll go through the steps of downloading and setting up R and then, with the use of a sample hockey data set, learn the very basics of R for exploring and visualizing data”.

  1. Link to post here: https://meghan.rbind.io/blog/r-tutorial/
  2. Link to code and repo here: https://github.com/hockey-graphs/HG_intro_tutorial/blob/master/HG_tutorial_code.R

Exploring tidymodels With Hockey Data🌱

By Meghan Hall

Added Sat Dec, 2021.
What is this?
Excerpt from site: “This is a gentle introduction to the tidymodels package (which, like the tidyverse, is actually a collection of packages), and in order to examine various functions and capabilities of those packages, we’ll build two very simple models, using easily available NHL data, and go over a few ways to evaluate them”.

  1. Link to post here: https://meghan.rbind.io/blog/tidymodels-intro/

Learning R with Hockey Data and learnr 🌱

By Meghan Hall

Added Sat Dec, 2021.
What is this?
Excerpt from site: “I’ve created two tutorials in learnr, one that is a true introduction for beginners (focused on the tidyverse) and one that goes a little bit deeper into data manipuation with pivoting and joining data. These tutorials (screenshot below) live in a package I created called betweenthepipes”.

  1. Link to post here: https://meghan.rbind.io/blog/learnr/
  2. Link to Github repo here: https://github.com/meghall06/betweenthepipes/blob/master/README.md

R best practices

By Krista DeStasio

What is this?

Excerpt from site: This post provides a discussion of best practices1 for developing code-based projects and for writing R code in a research setting with an eye toward proactively avoiding common pitfalls.

  1. Post here: https://kdestasio.github.io/post/r_best_practices/