Coursera Reproducibility Course

Final Assessment

Lauren G.

2025-07-03

Purpose of Document:

This is the final assignment for the “Reproducible Templates for Analysis and Dissemination” course on Coursera. The instructions are as follows:

  • For your final assignment, you need to create a document or presentation using R Markdown, with the elements listed below, and publish your work to RPubs.
  • Create an HTML document or HTML presentation slide with these 8 items:
    • A section of text summarizing the information in your document or slide presentation (keep this between 3-4 sentences)
    • A bulleted list of 3 or more items (either numbered or unnumbered)
    • A plot of the built-in ‘pressure’ dataset
    • A table of the top 6 rows of the built-in ‘cars’ dataset
    • Apply a theme or style that changes the font, colors, or other formatting instead of the default template. (HINT: Remember to explore the options in the prettydoc, rmdformats, or revealjs packages)
  • Knit the document or presentation to HTML
  • Publish the document or presentation to RPubs

Summary

The following report includes several elements. First, a list of several things I found useful in the course. Next, a plot of the pressure dataset that is built-in to R and a snapshot of the first 6 rows of the cars dataset which is also built-in to R. Finally, the prettydocs theme “Architect” was used for adding visual style to the document.

Highlights of Course:

  1. Creation of word document references for rending to .docx.
  2. How to publish on Github pages and Rpub.
  3. Parameters in the yaml to be able to easily switch between dynamic elements during rendering.
  4. How to start rmarkdown files from templates.
  5. Creation of dashboards.

Figure 1. Plot of Temperature and Pressure.

Table 1. Snapshot of Cars dataset.

##   speed dist
## 1     4    2
## 2     4   10
## 3     7    4
## 4     7   22
## 5     8   16
## 6     9   10