cm008.Rmd

---
title: "Reproducibility in research"
output: html_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(cache=TRUE)
```

# cm008 - October 19, 2016

## Overview

* Review how to post code in a Github issue
* Review the importance of reproducibility in scientific research
* Define a data pipeline
* Demonstrate how to structure a reproducible project in R
* Hammer home how to use R Markdown documents

## Slides and links

* [Slides](extras/cm008_slides.html)
* [Example pipeline](https://github.com/uc-cfss/pipeline-example)

## To do for Monday

* [Start homework 4](hw04-analysis-pipeline.html)
* Make sure [Python is installed and working](setup02.html)
* Read chapters 1-3, 5 from [Think Python](http://proquestcombo.safaribooksonline.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/book/programming/python/9781449332006)
    * Ignore recursive functions in Chapter 5 - just focus on conditional expressions