Stat406

The goal of Stat406 is to allow students enrolled in the course to install all necessary packages at once. It also provides data and documentation for all Homework Assignments and Labs for easy loading, along with a few helper functions to verify system setup.

Installation

You can install the development version of Stat406 from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("UBC-STAT/stat-406-rpackage", dependencies = TRUE)

Usage

After installation, the package will be available in R under the name Stat406. You can load it into R using:

library(Stat406)

Start up

Once you have installed the package, you should run

test_latex_installation()

This will attempt to compile a small LaTeX document (in preparation for homework and labs). If it works, you’ll see something like:

#> ℹ Attempting to compile a LaTeX document.
#> ✔ Attempting to compile a LaTeX document. ... done
#> 
#> ✔ LaTeX is available. You're good to go.

If it fails, you’ll see:

#> ✖ LaTeX does not appear to be installed. But, it may have installed automatically
#> 
#> ── Next steps. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> ℹ Try running this function again.
#> ℹ If you still see this message, run `tinytex::install_tinytex()`.

Ideally, LaTeX automatically installed itself. Try the function again. You may need to restart R. You may need to restart your machine. If it still doesn’t work, follow the instructions.

If you still get errors, then contact the teaching team on Slack or in Office Hours.