11  Assessment 1

A project with a qmd file showing basic reproducible report skills

11.1 Instructions

Your task is to write the outline structure of your thesis report in a reproducible quarto script. The report must contain the following:

• A project structure with all needed files (Section 2.2.3)
• A setup code chunk that loads the tidyverse (Section 2.5.1)
• The main section headers that you expect to use in your report (i.e., Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, References) (Section 2.4.3)
• A short paragraph about your research topic in the Introduction section, using markdown syntax for any text formatting (Section 2.4.3)
• Use inline R to include the version of R you are using in the Methods section (Section 2.4.7)
• A table in the Methods section that gives a rough timetable for your thesis, created using markdown or data frames in R (Section 2.5.8)
• One relevant image (or your favourite stats/coding meme) with a figure caption (Section 2.5.7) in the Results section
• Cross reference the image in the text with automatic figure numbering (Section 2.5.9)
• At least two bibliographic references cited in the text, created and displayed in the reference section using reproducible techniques (Section 2.7)
• Customise the YAML header (Section 2.6.3) to:
  • a table of contents (Section 2.6.4)
  • display tables using kable
  • use a non-default theme of your choosing
  • hide all code chunks
• The quarto file should be renderable by the marker (Section 2.4.8)

See this report for an example.

11.2 Submission

• Covers: chapters 1 and 2
• Worth: 10%
• Do not put your name in your report; use your student ID as the author.
• Please submit a zip file containing:
  1. the .rproj file
  2. your reproducible script, named report1_studentID.qmd
  3. any additional files necessary to reproduce your report (e.g., images or bibliography files),
  4. the rendered html report, named report1_studentID.html.

11.3 Marking Rubric

You will receive green/amber/red lights for each of 11 elements, and a generic feedback document explaining common issues. Each rubric element is weighted equally.

• Green: Perfect or nearly perfect
• Amber: Needs some improvement
• Red: Incorrect or absent

Elements	Green	Amber	Red
project structure
setup code chunk
section headers
paragraph
image
cross reference
inline R
table
references
YAML header
renderable

Total: 0/22