Library Carpentry: Introduction to Working with Data (Regular Expressions)

This repository houses an adaption of the Library Carpentry lesson, Introduction to Working with Data (Regular Expressions), edited and reformatted into a bookdown book.

Build this book locally

1. Fork, clone or download this project
2. Install R & RStudio
3. Install the bookdown, RMarkdown, and tinytex packages in RStudio with the following two commands in the R console:
   • install.packages(c("rmarkdown", "bookdownplus")

You can also click Tools > Install Packages and type the package names (make sure "install dependencies" is checked) separated by commas.

4. Go to the project folder and double click lc-data-intro.Rproj to start RStudio
5. Run this command in the R Console after RStudio opens: bookdown::render_book('index.Rmd', 'all', , output_dir = 'docs')
6. Go to the folder docs/ in the project folder and click index.html to view the book locally in your browser.

Contact info

You are welcome to email me at vicky dot steeves at nyu dot edu if you have questions or concerns, or raise an issue on this repository and I will do my best to respond quickly!