Week 6: Intro to R and RStudio

Reading

• Hadley Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Garrett Grolemund, R for Data Science (2nd Edition): Introduction, Chapters 2, 4, 6, and 8.
• Kieran Healy, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2018), Chapter 2: Get Started.

Assignment

• Install R and RStudio. See Computing R.

Activities

• Workshop: Intro to R
  • R for Social Scientists: Intro to R
  • RStudio IDE User Guide
• Workshop: Importing data
  • R for Social Scientists: Starting with data
  • Download SAFI data
  • Download letters data
  • Download readr example data

Resources

• Data Carpentry - R for Social Scientists
• Software Carpentry - R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis
• Julie Lowndes and Allison Horst, R for Excel Users: R & RStudio, RMarkdown.
• On importing data with readr