Add Markdown Lesson after GGplot?

[reedacartwright]

Last fall, I adapted the R Markdown lesson from the DC Social Sciences for the R ecology workshop. The links to the lesson are below.

• Example: https://reedacartwright.github.io/R-ecology-lesson/05-rmarkdown.html
• Source: https://github.com/reedacartwright/R-ecology-lesson

I was thinking that with graphing being moved forward in the new curriculum that maybe an R Markdown lesson can be added soon after GGPlot.

[murraycadzow]

I would endorse the inclusion of a markdown component somewhere in the lesson. My thoughts is that it could be useful to have at the end and use as summary activity where learners could create a report with a plot, a table and some explanation about what they did from the prior episodes

[joelnitta]

I agree this would be good to tie the lesson together. It feels to me a bit off to have the lesson end abruptly with Working with Data. As a learner, I would wonder "what is the goal of working with data?"

That said, I would advocate for Quarto markdown instead of R Markdown, as it is the de facto successor to Rmd. While Quarto is deep enough to warrant its own lesson, I think it would be possible to cover the basics in a single episode.