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Given the Warren Center's focus, the workshop centered around Big Data and Open Science with R. Yihui Xie and myself alternated on delivering four units on an Introduction to R, Writing R packages, Dynamic Documents with R, and HPC with Rcpp and RcppArmadillo.
So I had to come up with a plan for teaching R CMD ... commands and only then switching to taking advantage of an environment such as the RStudio IDE.
The resulting slides are now available on my presentations page. The code examples are in a repo subdirectory on GitHub as well. While both were designed to support the parallel live instruction offered in the workshop, I would be interested in feedback (preferably via email) about how useful the slides are by themselves.
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