R Tutorial

Tutorial materials

R-scripts complement the tutorial material (i.e., Rmarkdown files).

• R Primer
  • RMarkdown
  • r-script
• Intro to R
  • Rmarkdown
• RStudio Setup
  • RMarkdown
• Troubleshooting in R
  • RMarkdown
• Practical R
  • RMarkdown
  • r-script

Before the Tutorial

• Please download & install R and RStudio.
• Clone or download the tutorial materials by clicking the green button in the top right corner of the repo, or here.

Contents

R Primer

• R and RStudio
  • R syntax & R building blocks (e.g., objects, functions)
  • RStudio panes
  • installing & loading packages
• Working with data
  • importing data into R
  • Accessing elements inside R objects; indexing with a square bracket ([])
  • Inspecting class attributes

Intro to R

• R syntax and grammar
• Understanding and applying functions

RStudio Setup & Troubleshoot in R

• Setting up RStudio to create a self-contained project
• How to identify and troubleshoot errors in R

Practical R

• Tidyverse syntax and grammar (e.g., piping operators)
• Data wrangling with dplyr verbs (e.g., select(), mutate())