This is the first week of coding in this course, and hence my first goal for the week was to get started in coding. This was slightly nerve-wracking but exciting as I have never done coding before. The overall goal for the week was to get a general and basic understanding of R Markdown so I would be able to even publish this learning log to RPubs.

I began by accessing the coding lessons on the course site and beginning the content given by Danielle Navarro.

I managed to understand most of the content, however there were a few bumps along the way including errors that I had no knowledge on how to fix. However, after collaborating with a classmate, I found what I did wrong and solved the problem.

Basically, when trying to use R, after replicating the actions used in the videos, I encountered an error. This was because I was using asteriks instead of quotation marks, when using the print function in R.

I was typing: print(* hello world! *)

Instead of:

print("hello world!")
## [1] "hello world!"

This week I believe I achieved my goals, as I gained a basic understanding of R Markdown functions, such as learning how to:

I also learnt how to insert block quotes:

Why is there an error! - Me when coming across an error using R

The next steps in my coding journey are to get an even better understanding of using R Markdown, through practicing making my own documents. I aim to not need to look at my notes to remember how to do things such as italicise, make words bold or bold and italicised, and other R Markdown functions. This should help me improve my confidence with coding and using R Markdown in the future.

Overall, I enjoyed learning about basic coding so far, and I am eager to learn more in the oncoming weeks!