co-analysis / csps-with-r

:mortar_board: Training materials to introduce R, RStudio and Civil Service People Survey data

csps-with-r

Purpose: introducing beginners to R, RStudio and the Civil Survey People Survey data.

The training is currently a single R Markdown file knitted to HTML. The HTML file will be made available online when the GitHub repo is made open.

The document is available here: https://co-analysis.github.io/csps-with-r/

Important note on the data

The CSPS data used in this document is not real data. Instead, it's a 'synthetic' version created using the {synthpop} package.

In short, this means that the data distributions within the variables are preserved, but no response represents a real individual. This means we can get some realistic-looking outputs without any response being from a real individual.

Future plans

Longer term, this should be developed into a {bookdown} project that covers far more than just the very basics of using R and RStudio. It should also demonstrate more thorough analysis of the CSPS data, like calculating percent-positive scores.

The book should probably cover some case studies using the {cspstools} package too, as that develops.

csps-with-r's Issues

Better explanations in plot section

Ahead of workshop on Tues 18 Feb, briefly explain:

• the grammar of graphics
• 'building up plots' with +
• possibilities
• the power of not having to tweak everything by hand
• etc

Mention {cspstools}

Ahead of the workshop on Tues 18 Feb, write a short section that introduces the concept of {cspstools} and gathers ideas for functionality from the attendees.

Complete 'get the data set' section

There's a reference to download.file() to fetch the dataset from the internet.

It could fetch the data from this repo. Or, there'll (ideally) be a Binder-enabled repo on GitHub that will also contain the data (for people attending the session who don't have R and RStudio installed).

Should we email the file to people too? What if their computer won't let them download from file from GitHub?

Links to other training materials/help

Link out to training resources, including things like cheat sheets for each of the functions. Also include advice on where to get help (RStudio community, etc).