Computing Resources

Access

To access computing resources for STA 210, go to the Duke Container Manager website, available here. If this is your first time accessing the containers, click on Reserve STA 210 on the Reservations Available menu on the right. You only need to do this once, and when you do, you'll see this container moved to the My Reservations menu on the left. Next, click on STA 210 under My Reservations to access the computing instance you'll use for the course.

Troubleshooting

If you’re having difficulty launching an RStudio session from your reserved container, go to status.oit.duke.edu and scroll down to Teaching and Learning Tools. Under this heading you’ll find an entry called Container Manager (CMGR Coursework Containers).

  • If the status shows Operational, this means the system is expected to be working. Check your internet connection, if need be, restart your computer to ensure a fresh new connection. If your issue persists, post on the course forum with details on what you’ve tried and the errors you see (including verbatim errors and/or screenshots).
  • If the status shows something other than Operational, this means there is a known incident with the containers. Check back later to see if it’s been resolved. If there’s a deadline coming up soon, post on the course forum to let us know that there’s an issue. We can look into how quickly it might get resolved and decide on what to do about the deadline accordingly. We don’t anticipate this to happen regularly - the systems are operational a huge majority of the time!

R Resources

Books (free online)

RStudio Primers - RStudio has a series of tutorials. The ones most relevant to this course in terms of data manipulation and visualization are below. A full list is available here.

Additional Resources