📚 Week 03 Lab - Preparation

2025/26 Autumn Term

Author

Dr. Ghita Berrada

Before coming to the 💻 Week 03 lab, please complete the following preparation tasks:

  1. Open the R terminal and install the new package we will use in this lab by running the following command:
install.packages("tidymodels")

  1. Review the 💻 Week 02 lab and the ✅ solutions and ensure you understand the code we wrote. Post a message on the #help channel on Slack if you have any questions about the Week 02 lab.

  2. Click the link below to download the .qmd file we will use in this lab. Save it in the DS202A folder you created last week.

  1. Open this file on your preferred IDE, look at the Loading libraries and functions section in the file and make sure that you have all the libraries to be loaded in that section installed.

  2. Download the dataset we will use for this lab, which is a dataset on student performance. Use the link below to download this dataset:

Put this file in the data folder within your DS202A project folder.

  1. Look at what you will be doing in the 💻 Week 03 lab, so you are not caught off guard!