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Workshop 1 · Setup

Activity: Setup account with Posit.Cloud

An in-class activity from the course slides — reproduced here so you can find it again after class.

📋 What to do

  1. Make a free Posit Cloud account. Go to posit.cloud and sign up. The free tier is enough for everything in this course.
  2. Open the course repository as a project. Once you are signed in, click New Project → New Project from Git Repository, and paste the course repo URL: https://github.com/timothyfraser/sysen. Posit Cloud clones the repository and opens it as a project (in Positron or RStudio) — that project is where you work for the rest of the term.
  3. Install the course packages, once. In the Console pane of that project, run source("workshops/packages.R") and let it finish. It downloads the course packages from CRAN, so you need an internet connection and it takes a while the first time. Warnings that a package "was built under a different R version" are normally safe to ignore.
  4. Done-check. Still in the Console, run these two lines:
    library(dplyr)
    read.csv("workshops/mydiamonds.csv") %>% head()
    If six rows with price, carat, and cut print, your account, your copy of the repository, and your packages all work. If instead you get an error, that is the thing to ask about — bring it to class or office hours.

📮 Submit

Submit a screenshot of your Posit.Cloud setup on CANVAS (1 pt) — graded on completion.

Note: work from this page — it is where the activity and its links (slide decks, shared materials) are maintained, and details may still be refined before class. Submission happens on Canvas, and so do the due date and your grade.