🗓️ Session 3: Project management and recap

Author
Affiliation

Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch

EUF and JKU

Published

02 10 2026

Modified

02 10 2026

This is one of the most underestimated topics. In this session you learn how to adequately set up your working environment on your computer. This means where you should save which files, which directory structure you should use, and how to point the computer to other files on your computer. While this sounds boring at first, taking seriously the insights from this session will save you tons of hours of frustration in the future!

🛠️ Recap: writing your own functions

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In the recap part of the session we discussed the topic of writing functions together, alongside two examples.

👨‍🏫 Lecture Slides on Project Management

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🎥 Lecture videos

Currently, no videos are available for this session. Check out the resource Setting Up an R Project on Method and Inquiry instead.

📚 Mandatory Reading

Further Reading

While we do not cover this in this course, I highly recommend learning the version control system Git. Personally, I can recommend the following:

✍️ Coursework

  • Do the exercises ProjectOrga from the DataScienceExercises package that refer to setting up an R project
  • If you still have problems with R Packages, re-read the respective section of the resource from session 2
learnr::run_tutorial(
  name = "ProjectOrga", 
  package = "DataScienceExercises", 
  shiny_args=list("launch.browser"=TRUE))

References

Gräbner-Radkowitsch, C. (2026a) “Object Types in R I: Functions” C. Gräbner-Radkowitsch (ed.), Method and Inquiry, available at https://euf-methodology-hub.netlify.app/resources/r-object-types-i-functions.
Gräbner-Radkowitsch, C. (2026b) “Setting Up an R Project” C. Gräbner-Radkowitsch (ed.), Method and Inquiry, available at https://euf-methodology-hub.netlify.app/resources/setting-up-an-r-project.