Proposed Update to package install at 01-rstudio-intro.Rmd

[isaac-jennings]

Dear maintainers,

This PR follows from a closed PR found at #868 . As per advice from the maintainer team, I have added the proposed update via an instructor note.

I am a SWC Instructor who regularly delivers this R workshop to researchers. Over the course of many workshops in 2023, there have been recurrent issues in relation to lazy loading, and dependency install failure when installing ggplot2 on some machines. 9/10 times, setting the dependencies flag to TRUE explicitly tends to resolve the issues encountered. The other 1/10 times are often new R users setting the library download location to a sync folder i.e. cloud storage (in my experience at least).

For your consideration, and best wishes.

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[naupaka]

Automated checks failing due to

Duplicate chunk label 'ch5-sol', which has been used for the chunk:
install.packages("ggplot2")
install.packages("plyr")
install.packages("gapminder")

[isaac-jennings]

Hi @naupaka, I adjusted the PR file to 1++ one up the solution number. I have only now realised there is no "ch5-sol1" as the original was renamed to "ch5-sol2". Would it be preferred to 1-- one down the solution notations?

[naupaka]

@isaac-jennings I think it's fine to leave the numbering as is -- the previous issue was just that there was a duplicate chunk name. Your adjustment resolves that.

Thanks for the language adjustment based on @skanwal's suggestion. Is there a link or reference to the idea that the installation issue is a bug? If not we may want to word it a little differently.

[isaac-jennings]

Hi @naupaka, I have reworded as there is no known or finable discussion on this as a formal bug.

[naupaka]

thanks @isaac-jennings!