afrimapr/r-maps-tutorial-fr-eng

Entry level R maps from African data. English & French training materials for a ~ 4 hour tutorial. # Welcome to the afrimapr tutorial : Entry level R maps from African data. # Bienvenue dans le tutoriel afrimapr : Cartes simples avec des données africaines This repository contains materials in French & English to support a 4 hour + tutorial that can be led or self guided. It was initially delivered at the useR2021 conference. It is structured as an RStudio project. The tutorial is divided into 3 sessions, each can take around 90 minutes. The final session is a practical that gives you some pointers to applying the material from the first two sessions on data of your own choice. ## To use the tutorial resources ### 1. copy the project to your local machine From RStudio select File, New project, From version control, & paste in the address of this repository. That should create a copy on your local machine. ### 2. run code to install packages On your local machine, in RStudio, open the file **packages_and_data.R**. Press **Source** to run the whole file, this should install all the packages that you need for the tutorial. ### 3. choose French or English In RStudio, open the folder for **english** or **french** ### 4. run code to disply tutorial text and images In RStudio, open the **for_learners** folder and open the file **1_tutorial_code_session_one.R** and run the first two lines of code. This should open a html document in the RStudio **Viewer** tab with text, images and code for the tutorial. ### 5. read text in the Viewer tab, run code in the Console Read gradually through the tutorial in the **Viewer** tab. When you come to code sections you can copy & paste code into the R console to run it yourself and experiment with modifying. Static plots will appear in the RStudio Plots tab and you can click on the Viewer tab to return to the tutorial text. Dynamic plots (e.g. from tmap & mapview) will appear in the Viewer tab and you can press the back arrow to return to the tutorial text. The R file **1_tutorial_code_session_one.R**, that you a …