jeff-a-nguyen
commented
6 years ago Hi Joel.
I wanted to have an interactive graph for our final project. But i noticed that when i used ggplotly there's a message on the knitted document saying
We recommend that you use the dev version of ggplot2 with ggplotly()
Install it with: devtools::install_github('hadley/ggplot2')
but when I use that code, R tells me it doesnt understand the devtools. I also used options(warn = -1) but it didn't work
lwjohnst86
joelostblom
As you are finishing up your projects, I want to share a few writing tips to help you with the final report. Note that these are tips for how to write, you should not have to redo any analysis based on this, it is just advice on how to put together what you already have. Much of this is a reminder/clarification of what has been discussed in the course already.
Introduction
This usually starts as a general background section, stating what has been done in the field previously. Towards the end of the introduction, it is made clear what gap(s) there are in the previous literature and how these made you curious to ask the question in your current study and why this is important. This is the rationale/motivation and impact of your study and sets you up for stating you hypothesis in the next section.
Hypothesis
Based on the gap you identified in the literature, you have narrowed down one central question for your work (possibly with side questions, or smaller questions on the way).
Methods
In addition to describing the data (what was measured and how), also describe the model techniques you used for your analysis and how these work. Shorter justification and comparison to other techniques could go here, but is usually put in discussion if it is lengthy.
Results
Create a narrative from your findings. As you might have noticed from your literature readings, this section usually reads like a story to some extend. It should be easy for the reader to follow along, and the end of one paragraph should motivate what you did next and are describing in the next paragraph (e.g. after observing X, we proceed to explore Y to see if this relationship also extended to Z). Don't just describe the figures, describe your findings and use the figures as a visual aid for this narrative.
Discussion
How does your novel findings fit into the current literature and what future work might they motivate? You can also bring up caveats with your analysis methods here, alternate approaches, questions that you did not have time to explore or was outside the scope of this study, etc.
Conclusions
Summarize findings and reiterate impact.
Comment below if something is unclear!