An R package of learnr tutorials for R and biostats

tl;dr I made an R package called biostats.tutorials containing learnr tutorials on R and stats. Available on GitHub. Learning statistics and R has changed a lot since I started in undergrad and that wasn't that long ago. When I learnt it, it was basic. The lecturers chose not to use RStudio so we used the …

Links about teaching statistics for biologists

Updated 27/11/20 Teaching statistics has vastly improved from my undergraduate days (and that wasn't that long ago) in terms of accessible online material and pedagogy. As an undergraduate I would have appreciated some easy to follow readings that weren't technical replies on StackExchange. We teach introductory stats theory and coding in R to a general …

Using icons with rmarkdown

Last year, I added icons to my GitHub website. I built that website in R using the static site generator in the rmarkdown package but I hadn't thought to include icons when I taught myself how to make a website. Icons are freely available from different open source icon websites. rmarkdown supports three of them …