Demo

• Overview of main components of Rstudio
  • Editing window
  • Console
  • Terminal
  • Files
  • Plots
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Packages
• Overview of Markdown
  • Headings
  • Code blocks
  • Knitting
  • Quarto
• R projects
  • What’s a file?
  • How to name files
• Making and revising notes. Learning and not getting lost.

Installing packages

my_packages <- c("tidyverse", "broom", "coefplot", "cowplot",
                 "gapminder", "GGally", "ggrepel", "ggridges", "gridExtra",
                 "here", "interplot", "margins", "maps", "mapproj",
                 "mapdata", "MASS", "quantreg", "rlang", "scales",
                 "survey", "srvyr", "viridis", "viridisLite", 
                 "socviz", "devtools", "patchwork", "usethis", "gitcreds",
                 "remotes", "paletteer", "ggthemes", "ggtext")

install.packages(my_packages)

Cloud services

• rstudio.cloud

Why these tools and not some others?

• Python
• JavaScript
• Excel, Office suite

Why is programming a computer worth the effort to learn, to use?

What about learning fundamentals instead of the specifics of one particular software package?

Other topics get their own lessons

• Grammar of Graphics & ggplot2
• Tidy data: dplyr, tidyverse packages
• Version control: git and github