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---
title: "Setting up a RStudio Project and Obtaining Data"
author: "Reid Otsuji adapted from Tim Dennis"
date: "January 6, 2018"
output: html_document
---
Goal: To start utilizing RStudio's project managment feature and use more reproducible approaches to data analysis.
## Create New Poroject in RStudio
1. Open RStudio and go to `File>New Project` in the top menu
2. Select `New Directory`
3. Choose `Empty Project`
4. Type Directory Name, e.g., gps-r or what you want, and navigate where you want this to live (Desktop is usually easy to find)
5. Select `Create project` and now download the data
## Download gapminder data into the project
We need a data folder inside our project.
1. Once you create a project above you should be in the project folder and the following will work
2. In RStudio far lower right pane, select `Files`
2. Click `New Folder` and name `data`
3. In the console, paste and enter (without the >):
```{r eval=F}
download.file('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/resbaz/r-novice-gapminder-files/master/data/gapminder-FiveYearData.csv', 'data/gapminder-FiveYearData.csv')
```
4. This will download and place a gapminderFiveYearData.csv inside the data folder. Browse to the data/ folder to confirm that it worked.
5. If you are having trouble downloading the data this way, you can [download](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/resbaz/r-novice-gapminder-files/master/data/gapminder-FiveYearData.csv) it directly and manually move to the data folder.
## Instructions with Screenshots (pardon the blur)
1. Open RStudio and go to `File>New Project>New Project` in the top menu
![Create New project](assets/file-newproject.png "Create new project")
2. Select `New Directory > Empty Project`:
[![Name New project](assets/create-new-project-dir.png "Create new project dir")](assets/create-proj-name-dir.png)
3. Create a new data folder in project folder:
[![New data folder](assets/create-data-new-folder-small.png "Create data folder")](assets/create-data-folder-big.png)
4. Download gapminder data into data folder:
From console, run:
```{r eval=FALSE}
download.file('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/resbaz/r-novice-gapminder-files/master/data/gapminder-FiveYearData.csv', 'data/gapminder-FiveYearData.csv')
```
[![Download data](assets/download-data-view-sm.png "Create data folder")](assets/download-data-view-big.png)