Clarification on submission instructions

[AprilPeck]

@castower Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? Do all the data processing steps (i.e. everything from tutorial 1) go in the utilities.r file?

• If your RMD file looks exactly like the tutorial, you will not get full credit.
• This is because the tutorial is meant to show you what the data preprocessing steps should look like; not where they should live (which is in a separate .R file).
• You need to use import::here() function and import specific objects rather than doing all of your data processing within the .rmd file. If you need a tutorial on how to use this, please see the “Project Data Steps” tutorial.

[castower]

Hello @AprilPeck ,

Yes, you will want to have your functions listed in the utilities.R file so that the steps to create the rodeo files are not listed in the lab.

However, the steps to answer all of the lab prompts can remain in the .RMD file (calculating home change, selecting census tracts and creating the dorling cartogram).

[AprilPeck]

@castower Thank you. So all of the data wrangling also goes in utilities. I noticed there was some overlap between the utilities file we downloaded this week and the project_data_steps.r file. Do we need both files or can we just house everything in utilities.r?

[castower]

Hello @AprilPeck , you can house everything in the utilities file.