Graduate student survival guide documenting the hidden curriculum and tips to help you succeed in graduate school and beyond.
Inspired by https://github.com/vandybgsa/handbook.
Contents
This is meant to serve as a bit of a guide or collection of tips for incoming students to help you transition smoother. These tips are collected from the experiences of students.
This guide is compiled using bookdown, an R package for authoring books and
technical documents. The underlying files are RMarkdown files. More on
how to use bookdown can be found here.
- Chapter 1 Computing Tips
- Chapter 2 Community
- Chapter 3 Personal Branding
- Chapter 4 Courses
- Chapter 5 Research
- Chapter 6 OHSU Campus
Computer software needed:
R packages to install:
install.packages("bookdown")Open the handbook.Rproj file in RStudio and run the command
bookdown::render_book("index.Rmd", "bookdown::gitbook")This will render the files into the docs/ directory. You'll need to commit
any changes in this directory to see changes on the website.
You can also open the compile_book.R script and run that.
Using Make, you can also just run the following if you have R setup correctly on the command line.
make