Homework Four

Homework Four: Due Sept. 22 at 5 pm.

First, download your homework. In your RStudio, fill in the below command:

download.file(url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BiologicalDataAnalysis2019/2022/main/vignettes/homework_4.Rmd", destfile = "")

Question One:

Take a look at this package. Reading the documentation, what is the primary goal of this package?

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Question Two

Where in this package is the actual code stored? How do you know?

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Question 3

When you look into the code, are you able to understand any of it? What is one thing the authors could do to make the code more understandable?

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Question 4

What are the other directories in the package? What do they contain?

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Question 5

Do you trust that this package does what it says it is doing? Why or why not?

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Question 6

Have a look at these data storage best practices from Boston College. Have this read by Sept. 27 as we will use this in an activity.

Master’s Students

Find a package that does something you’d like to do for your dissertation. Apply the steps above to this package to evaluate its reliability.