Introduction to R, Part I

Course Topics

R is a free computing and graphical software/environment for statistical analysis. Part I of this short course consists of 2 sections:

  • Section 1 introduces R programming basics, including data objects, loops, and importing/exporting datasets. These concepts will be reinforced using examples of data manipulation and data cleaning.
  • Section 2 discusses the R graphics environment and the creation of basic statistical plots as well as paper/presentation quality graphics.

R can be downloaded here: 
RStudio can be downloaded here: