Learning R

Learn the basics of R, the free, open-source language for data science. Discover how to use R and RStudio for beginner-level data modeling, visualization, and statistical analysis.

Introduction

• R for data science
• Using the exercise files

1. What Is R?

• R in context

2. Getting Started

• Installing R
• Environments for R
• Installing RStudio
• Navigating the RStudio environment
• Entering data
• Data types and structures
• Comments and headers
• Packages for R
• The tidyverse
• Piping commands with %>%
• Sample datasets
• Importing data from a spreadsheet

3. Data Visualization

• Using colors in R
• Creating bar charts
• Creating histograms
• Creating box plots
• Creating scatterplots
• Creating line charts
• Creating cluster charts

4. Data Wrangling

• Selecting cases and subgroups
• Recoding variables
• Computing new variables

5. Data Analysis

• Computing frequencies
• Computing descriptives
• Computing correlations
• Computing a linear regression
• Computing contingency tables

Conclusion

• Next steps