Tutorial: Tree-based methods¶
There are two ways of running this tutorial:
On your own computer (preferred).
Experimentally, on the cloud at https://madinak.shinyapps.io/tutorial_trees/ , available for a limited time: from March 13 until Friday evening, March 19.
I strongly recommend the first option, meaning that you download the tutorial from https://github.com/madina-k/DSE2021_tutorials/tree/main/tutorial_trees and run a local version of the tutorial on your own computer.
How to run an interactive tutorial locally from your computer¶
Step 1. Open tutorial_trees folder by downloading the whole repository with all the tutorial https://github.com/madina-k/DSE2021_tutorials
Step 2. Open R Studio and install the following packages for this week’s tutorial:
install.packages(c("tidyverse", "learnr", "tree", "randomForest", "gbm", "broom"))
Step 3. Open the tutorial’s Rmd file tutorial_trees.Rmd in R Studio. Do not change anything inside the Rmd file. Click the green button “Run Document” at the top
Or if you do not see the button, run the following command within the console of R Studio:
rmarkdown::run("thefolderwhereyousavedthetutorial/tutorial_trees.Rmd")
Step 4. Work with the compiled tutorial. The new subsections are slowly revealed to you once you hit continue button. You get the correct answers for each quiz after you submit an answer first. You can get the correct answer to any coding question, by clicking “hint” button at the top panel of the coding chunk.