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the half completing the tutorials would perform much better for the rest
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of the course.
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+ ## Extra material
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Note that most of the tutorials follow the associated chapters from [ * R
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for Data Science (2e)* ] ( https://r4ds.hadley.nz/ ) . This is * not* true,
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- however, for these tutorials: Introduction, RStudio and Code, RStudio
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- and Github, Terminal, and Quarto. In those tutorials, we cover material
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- which we feel belongs in any introductory data science course.
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+ however, for several other tutorials like Introduction, RStudio and
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+ Code, Quarto Websites Introduction, Terminal, et cetera. In those
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+ tutorials, we cover material which we feel belongs in any introductory
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+ data science course which uses RStudio.
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+ However, the future of data science belongs to
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+ [ Positron] ( https://positron.posit.co/ ) , so we recommend that teachers
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+ use Positron rather than RStudio. In that case, you should assign the
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+ tutorials from the
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+ ** [ positron.tutorials] ( https://ppbds.github.io/positron.tutorials/ ) **
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+ package in place of the similar tutorials in ** r4ds.tutorials** . We no
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+ longer actively maintain these extra RStudio tutorials in this package.
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+ In the next version, we will delete them.
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## Installation
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Then ** restart your R session** or ** restart RStudio** .
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- ## Accessing tutorials
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+ ## Positron users
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+ Positron user should be aware of two things. First, tutorials in
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+ Positron must be run “by hand,” using the ` run_tutorial() ` function from
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+ the ** learnr** package. Example:
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+ learnr::run_tutorial(name = "00-introduction", package = "r4ds.tutorials")
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+ Second, many of the ** r4ds.tutorials** were written specifically for
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+ RStudio. Fortunately, the
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+ ** [ positron.tutorials] ( https://ppbds.github.io/positron.tutorials/ ) **
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+ package includes versions of those tutorials written for Positron.
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+ ## RStudio users
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In order to access the tutorials, start by loading the package.
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