Assignment Submission Guidelines

How to submit your work in Data 309

Published

August 23, 2025

First organize your computer

On your computer you will create notes, scratch work, R-code, assignments and projects. Follow these steps to label and organize your materials.

  1. Create a folder on your computer called data_309
    • This folder will contain everything you do in this class.
  2. Inside the data_309 folder create another folder called week_1
    • This folder contains all files,assignments,notes, etc., from week 1
  3. Inside the data_309/week_* folders create, as appropriate:
    • a folder called a1, for assignment 1
      • This folder is where you will place all files associated with assignment one.
    • a folder called p2, for project2
      • data, .r files, .qmd files, everything for project 2 goes here
    • Continue each week, not every week will have a project.

What do I submit?

  1. Typically, you will submit .html files
    • These file will show some r-code, some charts, some text, etc.
  2. You will create these using quarto documents (.qmd files)
    • Do File > New File > Quarto Document to create a new .qmd file
    • Don’t worry you will gradually learn the syntax for working with Quarto

Where do I submit my work?

  1. Click here: http://euclid.nmu.edu/~joshthom/teaching/dat309/week1/euclidsamba.bat
  2. Save the file to your data_309 folder on your computer .
  3. Modify the script to use your username and password.
  4. This is the euclid_samba script.

How do I submit my work?

  1. Each time you make a submission, click on the euclid_samba script.
    1. This mounts a drive on your computer.
    2. Putting your computer to sleep will unmount the drive.
  2. Upload the files (.qmd, .html, .pdf, .r) to the specified folder.