remotes::install_github("kosukeimai/qss-package", build_vignettes = TRUE)
remotes::install_github("rstudio/learnr")
remotes::install_github("rstudio-education/gradethis")
remotes::install_github("mattblackwell/gov50tutor")Gov 50 R Tutorials Instructions
Submitting Tutorial Reports to Gradescope
Once you have completed the tutorial you will see a screen that prompts you to enter your name (as it appears on Gradescope) and produce a submission report. Clicking “Download” should place a report into the folder of your choosing. Find that PDF and upload it to Gradescope (see the link at the top of every page).
Note that we do not grade these reports on correctness, just that you attempted the tutorial. That said, going slowly and making sure that you understand each question and its answer is a good practice to ensure you are mastering the course material.
Installing the Gov 50 tutorials package
Our tutorials will be hosted on an external website so that you should not have to install any packages on your own computer. However, occasionally the server will become slow or unresponsive when there are many students trying to complete the tutorial at once. When this happens, you can install the tutorials locally to your RStudio. To install the package that contains the tutorials for the class run the following lines of code, each entered separately. Note that you may be asked to update packages when you enter this code. You can select 1 for “All” to perform any updates.
After the package has been installed, you should be able to find all of the tutorials for the course in the “Tutorials” tab in the top-right pane of RStudio. Scroll down to find a Gov 50 tutorial and click “Start Tutorial” to launch a tutorial:
If you do not see any QSS tutorials after scrolling to the bottom, try to restart RStudio, and check again. If you still don’t see any tutorials, confirm that you have installed the package by running library(gov50tutor). If you get an error about the package not being installed, try the above installation procedure again and note any error messages you receive before reaching out to the teaching staff for assistance.
FAQs
What if I receive an error about pdflatex and the submission report doesn’t download?
To generate the reports, you need something called LaTeX. You should have installed this with Problem Set 0, but the following command will install it:
install.packages('tinytex')
tinytex::install_tinytex() # install TinyTeXWhat if I don’t see a Tutorial tab in RStudio?
Make sure that you have RStudio version 1.3 or higher installed on your computer. On a Mac, you can check the version by going to the top left of the menu bar (next to the Apple logo) and clicking on “RStudio” then “About RStudio”. On a Windows PC, you can find the same item under File > About.
What if my submission report misses some of my attempts?
The submission report isn’t perfect and will sometimes say you didn’t attempt a question when you actually did. We do not grade strictly on this and are mostly looking for a confirmation that you made a good-faith effort to complete the tutorial.