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Note
titlePrerequisites

It is recommended that you familiarise yourself with R first by sitting our Introduction to R tutorial.

It also requires that you have the DataSHIELD training environment installed on your machine, see our Installation Instructions for Linux, Windows, or Mac.


Tip
titleHelp

DataSHIELD support is freely available in the DataSHIELD forum by the DataSHIELD community. Please use this as the first port of call for any problems you may be having, it is monitored closely for new threads.

DataSHIELD bespoke user support and also user training classes are offered on a fee-paying basis. Please enquire at datashield@newcastle.ac.uk for current prices. 

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Quick reminder for logging in:

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Recall from the installation instructions, the Opal web interface is a simple check to tell if the VMs have started. Load the following urls, waiting at least 1 minute after starting the training VMs.

Start R/RStudio

Load Packages

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xml
xml
#load libraries
library(DSI)
library(DSOpal)
library(dsBaseClient)

Build your login dataframe 

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languagexml
titleBuild your login dataframe
builder <- DSI::newDSLoginBuilder()
builder$append(server = "study1",  url = "http://192.168.56.100:8080/",
               user = "administrator", password = "datashield_test&",
               table = "CNSIM.CNSIM1", driver = "OpalDriver")
builder$append(server = "study2", url = "http://192.168.56.101:8080/",
               user = "administrator", password = "datashield_test&",
               table = "CNSIM.CNSIM2", driver = "OpalDriver")

logindata <- builder$build()

connections <- DSI::datashield.login(logins = logindata, assign = TRUE, symbol = "D")
  • Command to logout:
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languagebash
DSI::datashield.logout(connections)



Generating graphs

It is currently possible to produce 4 types of graphs in DataSHIELD: histograms, contour plots, heatmap plots and scatter plots.

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Tip

Also remember you can:

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