Editing Communication and Social Networks (Spring 2024)/R Lab 1 (section)

=== Try to run the lab ===

# Create a folder on your computer called COM_411_Labs
# Right-click on [https://github.com/jdfoote/com_and_social_networks_labs/raw/main/lab_1_r_markdown.qmd this link to Lab 1] and save it into the COM_411_Labs folder
# Open VSCode
# Click on the Extensions icon on the left (it's 3 attached squares and one floating square)
# Search for "quarto" and install the quarto extension
# Search for "R" and install the R extension
# In VSCode, Click File > Open Folder - Navigate to the COM_411_Labs folder that you created earlier
# Click on the lab_1_quarto.qmd file, and it should open in the main window of VSCode
# Click Terminal > New Terminal. This will open a window at the bottom of VSCode. In that window type <code>R</code> and push enter. This will start an "R Interactive shell"
# In the R shell, paste the following:
#* <code>install.packages(c("rmarkdown","tidyverse","ggraph","tidygraph","igraphdata"))</code>
#* It will ask you what CRAN mirror you'd like to use. You can choose something in the US.
#* If it asks if you want to install from source, you can type "no"
#* This will show a bunch of crazy messages for a while. You can probably ignore them.
# Click "Preview" at the top right, and hopefully it works!
# Read the document, make the changes that you are asked to, and then try clicking the down arrow by Render, and "Render as PDF". I would like you to turn in all of your assignments as PDFs.
# If that doesn't work, then you probably have to install tinytex. Click the Quarto Preview terminal (in the bottom right) and type:
#* <code>quarto install tinytex</code>
# Try rendering a PDF again
# Upload the PDF to Brightspace! You did it!! 

If things aren't working then ask a neighbor for help.