Create Lessons

Introduction

• Along with serving as a package management tool, backpack also comes equipped with interactive lessons. The goal of the interactive lessons is to teach users how to use the packages associated with specific statistical techniques. So far we have lessons that cover the following topics: Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA), Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), and Canonical Variate Analysis (CVA). We hope to make more lessons available to users in the near future.
• In order to access a lesson within backpack, you use the following function: backpack::start_lesson(name="EFA")

Integration of backpack and learnr

• The lessons that accompany backpack were created using learnr, a package created by a team at RStudio, which allows users to create interactive tutorials within an R markdown document.
• Along with the lessons that already come with backpack, users can also create their own lessons for any of the pre-determined binders or for binders they created within backpack.

How to use learnr and disperse your lesson

• To create your own lesson, you can follow the guidelines from the learnr documentation to stylize your lesson accordingly.
• The learnr documentation also includes useful information on how to save and disperse your lesson.