Introduction to R

Two-day introduction to R covering (two mornings)

• Day 1

  • Data Types
  • Indexing
  • Functions
  • Data Input and Output

• Day 2

  • Simple data analysis in R
  • Plotting

Start with

• Show them how I use R:

  • Plain R console
  • Text editor (e.g., Vim or Notepad++)

• Show RStudio

  • https://rstudio.iwm-tuebingen.de/
  • Customize:
    1. Choose your color theme
    2. Change the panels layout
    3. Change default setting for .RData and .RHistory

• You try out stuff in the console

• The script contains everything that you want to keep

• Comment and organize

• Then reorganize

• Open R and type along

• Tell me to slow down

• Online people also!

Resources

• Online book is at XXX

• Do the exercises to get some practice

  • You can make an appointment and we go through them together

Additional topics

• Maybe add for next time:
  • Simple data simulation and power analysis
  • Pipes
  • Styleguides
  • RMarkdown
  • Using RProjects in RStudio