Updating data import

Updating code to set stringsAsFactors=TRUE.

ACRM_2018/scripts/acrm_practical_session1.R

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ list.files()
 # Import the .csv file into R. 
 # We will save this file in the R environment as an object called "DATA".
 DATA<-read.csv("./data/data_session1.csv", header = TRUE, sep=",",  
-               na.strings=c("NA","NaN"," ",""))
+               na.strings=c("NA","NaN"," ",""), stringsAsFactors = TRUE)
 
 # Use the head() function to check the structure of the data file.
 head(DATA)

ACRM_2018/scripts/acrm_practical_session2.R

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ list.files()
 # Import the .csv file into R. 
 # We will save this file in the R environment as an object called "DATA".
 DATA<-read.csv("./data/data_session2.csv", header = TRUE, sep=",",  
-               na.strings=c("NA","NaN"," ",""))
+               na.strings=c("NA","NaN"," ",""), stringsAsFactors = TRUE)
 
 # Use the head() function to check the structure of the data file.
 head(DATA)

ACRM_2018/scripts/acrm_practical_session3.R

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ list.files()
 # Import the .csv file into R. 
 # We will save this file in the R environment as an object called "DATA".
 DATA<-read.csv("./data_session3.csv", header = TRUE, sep=",",  
-               na.strings=c("NA","NaN"," ",""))
+               na.strings=c("NA","NaN"," ",""), stringsAsFactors = TRUE)
 
 # Use the head() function to check the structure of the data file.
 head(DATA)

READ_ME.txt

@@ -1,66 +1,29 @@
 ##-------------------------
 # Linear Mixed Effects Regression (LMER) Reading Group
-# Keith Lohse, PhD
+# Keith Lohse, PhD, PStat
 # Auburn Univeristy
 # [email protected]
-# 2016-06-06
+# 2020-09-29
 
-The data and script files in this folder were created by Keith Lohse (me) at 
-Auburn University for a summer reading group on Linear Mixed Effect 
-Regression (LMER). The code builds on code originally written by Jeff Long 
-at the University of Iowa and follows his book "Longitudinal Data Analysis for
-the Behavioral Sciences Using R". The goal of the reading group was to work 
-through this book chapter by chapter and the scripts/data in this folder are
-the end result of that exercise. 
 
-When appropriate, I have replicated and updated Dr. Long's code (i.e., showing
-solutions using both plyr (original) and dplyr (more recent)) and I have tried
-to thoroughly comment Dr. Long's code, explaining what the code is doing at 
-each step. (The original code available from the publisher has essentially zero
-comments.) 
+If you are installing R and R Studio for the first time see: 
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enLJZQJT51o 
 
-There are also some situations were we use code and data completely separate 
-from Dr. Long's book. These are original data that were collected in the 
-Rehabilitation Informatics Laboratory at Auburn University. All of the 
-necessary data are stored in this folder, so the new code should run smoothly
-for everyone provided that you have all of the files saved to your working 
-directory and that you have installed all of the necessary packages (code 
-for installing these packages is included at the beginning of each script 
-file).
+## LAB #1
+Module 1A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5l7eARAD4A (7 min)
+Module 1B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ01H1ZL0ro (10 min)
+Module 1C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVAdwsaMlOs (10 min)
+Module 1D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQfJ8BU3HM (13 min)
+Module 1E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZXePRRRdho (15 min)
 
+## LAB #2
+Module 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgoorixQmlU (16 min)
 
-##--------------------------
-# File Structure
+## LAB #3
+Module 3A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rUPCr0I2KI (10 min)
+Module 3B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHyqwe4RlzI (11 min)
 
-For all of these scripts/data, the working assumption is that you create two
-folders within your working directory:
-1. data
-2. scripts
 
-In my code, I try to use relative rather than absolute references when possible, 
-but please note that file pathways will need to be updated to be specific to 
-your computer. I do, however, try to point out when you need to do this in the
-code. For instance, use the getwd() function in R to find what your current 
-working directory is, and then use the setwd() function to change it. As you 
-will see in my code, I always adjust my working directory to
-> setwd("C:/Currant/LMER_reading_group/")
-
-... and within the "LMER_reading_group" folder, I have separate folders called 
-"data" and "scripts" in which I store all of the data files and script files.  
-
-
-##--------------------------
-# Progressing Through the Chapters
-
-In general, we progress through Dr. Long's textbook chapter by chapter. The 
-first two chapters are more conceptual and don't really have a lot of R code
-to go along with them as such, I recommend that you read the first two
-and then start working on the LMER_basics.R script file. From there, you 
-can just go chapter by chapter and *hopefully* all of the updated code will 
-work for you. The titles of the script files should line up with the chapters
-pretty intuitively, that is, "LMER_long3.R" should be completed while reading
-or after reading Chapter 3 from Dr. Long's textbook ("LMER_long4.R" goes with
-Chapter 4, etc.).