Your assignments will be assigned to you on RStudio cloud. You will be coding in the statistical programming language R which is really versatile and powerful. When you turn in your homework, you will be asked to “knit” your document. Here are some tips and tricks on what to do if you have a knitting error.
This is the best thing to do before you go to office hours! Now you may say… Edie… what the heck… I don’t code… Well, I kid you not, here are some foolproof ways to (a) get your homework done and (b) become a good coder.
You may see an answer from the stack community on your error.
Special characters are not allowed in RStudio. What do I mean? Do you know how when you type into Microsoft word and write “Hello”, the apostrophes change as if to frame the word? Well, those are not the same as normal apostrophes when typed into RStudio! Make sure those don’t exist. This could happen if you copy and pasted any code from lecture slides.
Are the necessary libraries loaded, e.g. library(tidyverse) when necessary.
On Rstudio cloud, what you’re typing into is a plain text editor. That being said, you can copy and paste piecewise to see how far your code will knit until it starts producing errors. Once you know this, you can pinpoint the error or bring that in to office hours. WARNING: Save your work always before doing this!
The best way to get help from any GSI for knitting errors is to come to office hours! We cannot help you when you send us just a screenshot, and sure enough, we won’t be able to read everyone’s code. When you’re in office hours, we can guide you and find solutions together. Hopefully, along with your classmates.
If you ask a knitting question on coures forums, we won’t be able to circumvent the issue. It is likely we won’t be able to fix your knitting error with you.
If your code is RUNNING, you have the answers, but it is still NOT knitting as a PDF, try knitting to a HTML document instead! Then you can print the html document as a pdf and turn it in that way!
If your code is RUNNING, you have the answers, but it is still NOT knitting as either a PDF or HTML document, then write in all your code and answers into Microsoft word! You have to turn in something!
Please see #2! We can help you.