πΊ Getting started with R
A ten-part video series to get your machine ready
Work through these in order before the data-wrangling topic. Together they take about an hour. All of them are in the course YouTube playlist.
Required
| # | Video | Length |
|---|---|---|
hw00-01 |
πΊ Installing R and RStudio | 4:08 |
hw00-02 |
πΊ R and RStudio: introduction and interface | 1:36 |
hw00-03 |
πΊ Setting up working folders | 3:54 |
hw00-04 |
πΊ Creating an RStudio project | 4:06 |
hw00-05 |
πΊ The console: running R code | 10:09 |
hw00-06 |
πΊ .R scripts: create, modify, run, save |
4:34 |
hw00-07 |
πΊ .Rmd R Markdown: create, modify, save, knit |
4:54 |
hw00-08 Write your own script
No video for this one. Take the Ceteris Paribus example from the introduction slides and rebuild it yourself as an .R script: load the data, reproduce the comparison, and save the file in the project you created in hw00-04.
Optional β to learn R more deeply
| # | Material | Length |
|---|---|---|
hw00-09 |
πΊ Coding out loud: introduction to R and R Markdown | ~1 hour |
hw00-10 |
πΊ UN General Assembly voting patterns, walked through by Mine Γetinkaya-Rundel | β |
hw00-10 follows the ae01b-un-votes.Rmd exercise from the introductory bundle, which was distributed through Ilias and is not published in this repository. The video stands on its own.
Keep these nearby
- π R for Data Science β the book this course leans on
- π Posit cheat sheets β one page per package
- More in external learning resources