I am very pleased you will be participating in the Sports Analyt- ics with R tutorial at the useR!2017 Conference . The tutorial is just a few days away.
In order that you get the most out of the experience, I’ve pro- vided some useful information about resources for the workshop and some packages you will want to make sure to install by the day of the tutorial.
Before the Tutorial:
Please make sure you will have a laptop with you and will be able to use R during the tutorial.
You should ensure that you have version 3.2 or higher of R on the machine you will be using at the conference.
Please install the deuce package from github, which has datasets we will be using during the tutorial. Depending on your con- nection speed, this may take several minutes to install so it is very important to do this before July 4th. You can install using the devtools command:
devtools::install_github(‘skoval/deuce’).
• If you want to be able to do all of the examples, please make sure you have installed the following packages and their de- pendencies: devtools, gtools, lubridate, stringr, dplyr, tidyr, rvest, RSelenium, ggplot2, ggthemes, plot3D, caret, blogdown, plotly
• You can install blogdown from github using: devtools::install_github(‘rstudio/blogdown’). The others should be available on CRAN.
• Using RSelenium may require additional installation of Sele-
nium serve, a java program. You can find the information on
installation under ‘How do I run the Selenium Server‘ at https: //cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RSelenium/vignettes/RSelenium-basics html#how-do-i-run-the-selenium-server
I will also have pdf copies of the lecture slides if you would like them after the tutorial, please contact me.
Contact:
If you have questions before or after the conference, please send an e-mail to me (Stephanie Kovalchik) at s.a.kovalchik@gmail. com.
