Intro to Statistics with R

This website https://r4statistics.com/ hosts some teaching material on “Introduction to Statistics & Machine Learning with R” — an intensive workshop that includes both Lectures and Practice Sessions to teach & consolidate the concepts learned using programming.

• Originally designed for a summer workshop offered in July of 2024 to a group of PhD students from various EU universities specializing in life sciences ---see https://R4biostats.com/.

TO DO

• ✅ Must do manual

  • *.PPTX 2 *.PDF LOOSES THE EQUATIONS!!!!!

• ✅ Rivedere practice/practice_slides/slides_lab06.qmd &&& verificare file practice/Rcode/lab06_code.R

  • ️️😎 ️OKKIO che ho fatto nuova funzione che pass da slide a R code R_resources/extract_r_code.sh

• ️🔳 practice/practice_slides/slides_lab05.qmd-->> standalone lesson on logistic regression for my website

• ️🔳 ripulire un po' di cose extra (lez e labs)

Extra TO DO

• ️🔳 su lez 4vedi anche programma di Causal Inference in Econometrics - Online Course di Nick Huntington-Klein
• ️◽ [add renv] bc this is going to last
• ️◽ turn re-usable practice slides code into tidyeval functions (plot etc) to be able to replace with different datasets
• ️◽ ultimare practice/practice_slides/slides_lab05.qmd + practice/RCODE 5 con:
  • aggiungere decision trees??? NO (dopo!)
  • K-MEANS CLUSTERING ? NO (dopo!)
  • logistic multiple variables ? NO (too much!)

How this website was built

This is a static website built with Quarto, shared on a Github repo and served via Github Pages rendered at this link https://lulliter.github.io/R4stats/, or now (after buying a "custom domain") deployed over a custom domain registered with AWS Route 53: https://r4statistics.com/.

The main content of the website pages is contained in Quarto Markdown files (*.qmd). *.qmd files are very similar to regular Markdown (*.md) and R Markdown (*.rmd) files, except they are designed to be language agnostic.

• Google Analytics Account under property r4biostats.com
• Nome stream: r4statistics.com
• URL dello stream: https://r4statistics.com
• ID stream: 10407079869
• ID misurazione: G-TDWG2LL0S7

Things needed to build the site

1. Install Quarto (an open source tool that can be used from RStudio, Jupyter, CLI, etc.)... Most R users will use RStudio
2. Install git (distributed version control software)... here some instructions
3. Create a Github account
4. Follow instructions/examples available here...
5. Font-Awesome Icons downloaded in ./images/* from Font-Awsome GH repo /svgs. To use in:

• *.md
  • ![fa-crown](images/copyright-regular.svg) (no size spec!!!)
  • <img src="images/copyright-regular.svg" width="16" height="16"> (yes size spec!!!)
• *.qmd
  • quarto wrap {{< fa brands copyright > }}
  • r inline code r fontawesome::fa("fab fa-windows", fill = "steelblue")

6. (An AWS account ...) but only for the custom domain part

Quirks

Little things to keep in mind (because semi-automated):

1. I execute a script R_resources/slides_fromDrive_2_here.R from my shell file ___render_deploy.sh to copy the *.pptx files from GoogleDrive to the ./slides/ folder.

2. I execute some shell commands (in ./___render_deploy.sh) to convert *.pptx slides to *.pdf as soon as they are ~ready...

Attributions

The content of this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except for the borrowed and mentioned with proper "Source:" statements.

Content

I acknowledge inputs received from these very valuable sources:

• An Introduction ro R software course taught by Davide Guido, an instructor of the Master in Biostatistics and Epidemiology Methods, I attended in 2018/2019
• R for Epidemiology, electronic book by the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health\
• Appplied Epi Interactive R Tutorials (Licensed )
• Statology Introduction to Statistics with R Tutorials (Copyrighted )
• Autism dataset analysis
• Introductory Biostatistics with R by Dylan Z. Childs, Bethan J. Hindle and Philip H. Warren
• Biostatistics - Concepts and approaches for collecting good data and turning it into knowledge by J. Stephen Gosnell

Cool Stuff you should check out

• R package {metabolic} by Felipe Mattioni Maturana, Ph.D

Quarto specific resources

• Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel's blog A Quarto tip a day
• Cornell University's lesson Publishing reproducible documents with Quarto https://mine-cetinkaya-rundel.github.io/quarto-tip-a-day/ https://info5940.infosci.cornell.edu/slides/publishing-reproducible-documents/#/themesappearance
• Parameterized reports/slides
  • Mandy Norrbo's tutorial Generate multiple presentations with Quarto parameters
  • Jadey Ryan Talk website
  • R Medicine David Keyes workshop Presentation
  • Jumping Rivers Mandy Norrbo Presentation

Web input attributions

• Website favicon R-project icon by icons8
• Google Scholar icon from icons8.com
• Font-Awsome Icons downloaded in ./images/* from Font-Awsome svgs
• Great tutorial on "Customizing Quarto Websites" by Sam Csik: slides
• Free Adobe Express logo maker