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OOH Session #112…
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Open Office Hours
(January 15, 2026)

  • Recap session #111
  • Today’s topic(s):
  • Shared problem-solving







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Recap of Session
#111:

quarto®!! (3 types of content):

YAML

“executive” specs that control doc look & feel – always located at very top:

---
title: "Mooseterpiece"
author: "I.M. Awesome"
format:
  revealjs:
    mouse-wheel: true
---
1
opening and closing fences indicated by 3 dashes (---)
2
indentations tend to be important (and finicky) within your

Narrative

plain–text (as you would specify on a notepad ) with formatting indicated by markdown:

# 1^st^ level heading 

## 2^nd^ level Heading

this is **bold**
this is *italic*

Computations

isolated bits of code indicated with either one (inline) or three (code block) “ticks”:

```{r}
library(ggplot2)

# Basic scatter plot
ggplot(mtcars, aes(
  x=wt, y=mpg)) + 
  geom_point()
```
1
any command you would normally specify within scripts or the console is valid within code chunks (including the loading of packages)
2
comments also operational within code chunks

Today…

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Figure 1: Bunch ’o flowers

Session Info (January 15, 2026) Rendering:

R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products: default
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] plotly_4.10.4 ggplot2_3.5.2

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] vctrs_0.6.5        httr_1.4.7         cli_3.6.5          knitr_1.50        
 [5] rlang_1.1.6        xfun_0.52          purrr_1.0.4        generics_0.1.4    
 [9] data.table_1.17.0  jsonlite_2.0.0     glue_1.8.0         htmltools_0.5.8.1 
[13] scales_1.4.0       rmarkdown_2.29     grid_4.5.0         crosstalk_1.2.1   
[17] evaluate_1.0.5     tibble_3.3.0       fastmap_1.2.0      yaml_2.3.10       
[21] lifecycle_1.0.4    compiler_4.5.0     dplyr_1.1.4        RColorBrewer_1.1-3
[25] htmlwidgets_1.6.4  pkgconfig_2.0.3    tidyr_1.3.1        rstudioapi_0.17.1 
[29] farver_2.1.2       digest_0.6.37      viridisLite_0.4.2  R6_2.6.1          
[33] tidyselect_1.2.1   pillar_1.11.0      magrittr_2.0.3     withr_3.0.2       
[37] tools_4.5.0        gtable_0.3.6       lazyeval_0.2.2