R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

This interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming in R for people with little or no previous programming experience. It covers the basics of using RStudio, creating variables, working with data frames, and starting to analyze your data using summary statistics and data visualization.

After completing this workshop series you will be able to:

• Navigate R Studio
• Open data in R and work with it in data frames using tidyverse
• Distinguish between different variable types
• Visualize data using ggplot
• Inspect documentation to deal with error messages

R Fundamentals has 4 parts. Each of the parts takes 2 hours, and is delivered in a lecture-style coding walk through interrupted by challenge problems and a break. Instructors and TAs are dedicated to engaging you in the classroom and answering questions in plain language. The workshop series is structured as follows:

• Part 1: Introduction to R and R Studio
• Part 2: Data frames and variable types
• Part 3: Manipulating data frames
• Part 4: Data visualizations and custom functions