emchristensen / R-SQL-capstone

capstone exercise for git + R + SQL workshop

Capstone exercise for UNC Software Carpentry workshop.

Repository contents

• bash script run_R_analyses.sh that loops over a list of years
• R script plot_species_by_weight.R that has the outline of code for reading a year as a command line argument; connecting to a SQLite database; querying some data; creating and saving a plot for the data

Instructions

1. Fork this repo to your own GitHub account
2. Clone your copy of the repo to your local machine
3. Modify the R script plot_species_by_weight.R according to the comments in the script. Push your changes to GitHub.
4. Modify the bash script run_R_analyses.sh to run the R script for each year (you can change the list of years, too)
5. Run the analyses using the bash script