Getting started with scdhlm

UPDATED 10/2/2016 after posting the package to CRAN

Here are step-by-step instructions on how to download and install the scdhlm package for R. You’ll need to have a copy of R installed. There are two ways to do the installation: through the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) or from the source code on Github. I describe each approach in turn.

Option 1: Via CRAN

Go via CRAN to install the most recent stable version of the package. Type the following commands at the R prompt:

install.packages("scdhlm")
library(scdhlm)

Option 2: Via Github

Go via Github to get the latest development version of the package. For this option, you will first need to install the devtools package:

install.packages("devtools")

Once you have successfully installed this package, type the following:

library(devtools)
install_github("jepusto/scdhlm")
library(scdhlm)

Further instructions

You’ll only need to do the installation once. Once you’ve got the package installed, type the following in order to access the package within an R session: library(scdhlm).

To open the package documentation, type package?scdhlm. To access the documentation for an individual function in this package, just type ? followed by the name of the function. For instance, one of the main functions in the package is called g_REML; to access its documentation, type ?g_REML.

web-interface for calculating effect sizes

The package includes an interactive app (written with shiny) for calculating design-comparable standardized mean differences. To run this app on your computer, you will first need to install RStudio (if you don’t already have it). Then ensure that you have the shiny, markdown, and ggplot2 packages installed by running the following:

install.packages("shiny")
install.packages("markdown")
install.packages("ggplot2")

Finally, open the app by typing the following at the prompt within RStudio:

library(scdhlm)
shine_scd()

The app should now open in your web browser.