Introductory Biostatistics Labs in R • iblir

This package is still under active development. If you see this message, assume that several parts of the package don’t quite work yet.

Description

iblir is an R package containing a set of learnr/Shiny tutorials that cover basic biostatistical concepts.

Start by installing R and RStudio. The package is not yet on CRAN, so you need to install it from GitHub as follows.

install.packages('remotes')
library('remotes')
install_github('andreashandel/iblir')

Then load the package

library('iblir')

To start the tutorials/labs, you type

run_tutorial('LabN', package = 'iblir')

where N is the lab number (1-13), e.g., Lab1, Lab2.

A startup message also tells you this.

See the Getting started tutorial/vignette for additional information.

See the Getting started tutorial/vignette for some brief information on different ways the package can be used and deployed for teaching.

See the Getting started tutorial/vignette for some brief information on different ways to add labs or modify the content of existing labs.

The main content of this package was developed by Brian McKay. The package is maintained by Brian McKay and Andreas Handel. A full list of contributors and a Bibtex entry for the citation can be found here.