R Stats Bootcamp

01 Setup & intro

Ed Harris

R Stats bootcamp

https://rstats-bootcamp.github.io/website/

Bootcamp introduction

(your first day with R)

What will you learn

• How the R Stats Bootcamp works

• R motivation

• Install R and RStudio, or set up RStudio Cloud

• RStudio components and setup

• Workflow for scripts in R

• Practice exercises

How the R Stats Bootcamp works

• Open material

• Self-guided

• Community (say hi in Slack)

R motivation

• Designed for beginners

• Best practice*

• Open source and free

Install R and RStudio, or set up RStudio Cloud

Option 1

Download and install R from CRAN

then download and install RStudio desktop

• Help for Windows

• Help for Mac

• Help for Linux

Install R and RStudio, or set up RStudio Cloud

Option 2

RStudio Cloud

• Some restrictions

• No setup, free, slick

RStudio components and setup

Workflow for scripts in R

• Header

• Contents

• One separate section for each item of contents

Example Script

Practice Exercises

It is important to formally answer the exercise questions.