INFX 511: Introduction to Programming for Data Science and Visualization

This repository contains the source code for the INFX 511: Introduction to Programming for Data Science and Visualization course book. The published book can be viewed at https://infx511.github.io/.

Note that all edited source files (including images and other assets) should be edited within the root folder; files in the build directory may be overwritten.

Dependencies

You should be able to install all required R dependencies using packrat: simply restart R (e.g., through an interactive session in the terminal) in order to automatically install the required libraries.

• If that doesn't work, you should be able to use the packrat::restore() function. You may need to do this through RStudio.
• For issues creating symlinks, delete the packrat/lib-R/ folder and reinitialize

Additionally, you may need to install the following libraries separately:

• Pandoc (for compiling the R-Markdown). But you may just need to specify the path.

• LaTeX for building to pdf (MiKTeX for Windows, MacTex on Mac).

You will also need to install node dependencies for Prism syntax highlighting:

npm install

Building the Book

You can use the included Makefile to build the book:

• make book to build the HTML version of the book (the output is saved in the saved in the repository's root folder).

• make pdf to build the PDF version of the book.

• make epub to build the epub version of the book.

• make all to build all versions of the book.

• make serve to serve a local copy of the book for development (with auto-refreshing browser).

• make deploy to publish the built book to https://infx511.github.io.