R is a free, open-source, software package and programming environment used primarily for processing, analyzing, and visualizing tabular data. It is also a general-purpose tool for many tasks throughout the research lifecycle. In this two-hour, hands-on workshop, we will orient ourselves to R and RStudio, install and attach useful community-developed packages, load and save tabular data, and work with the basic data structures found in R. No previous experience with R or statistics is expected. This is the first session of a four-week series. (Register for session 2 here.)

Topics discussed: 

• RStudio orientation 

• Arithmetic and calling functions interactively 

• Installing and attaching packages 

• Loading, examining, and saving tabular data 

• R data types and structures 

• Recognizing and working with missing data 

• Simple histograms and scatter plots 

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This workshop is part of our Coding and Computational Methods Series.