At the end of this lesson, participants should be able to:
- Demonstrate how basic objects, like data frames, are created and explored
- Explain how functions, arguments, and packages fit together in
R
's ecosystem - Demonstrate how to get help from within
R
- Describe what an
.Rproj
(R project) is in basic terms
- The
SETUP.md
file contains a list of packages required for this lesson - The
notebook/
directory contains both the seminar and completed versions of our lesson notebooks
We use the install.packages
function to install modular components of the R
ecosystem. For instance, to access lesson materials, we'll use the usethis
package. To install it, we run the following function in our console:
install.packages("usethis")
With the package installed, you you can download this lesson to your Desktop easily using usethis
:
usethis::use_course("https://github.com/chris-prener/data-skills-01/archive/master.zip")
By using usethis::use_course
, all of the lesson materials will be downloaded to your computer, automatically extracted, and saved to your desktop. The data-skills-01-master
project should open automatically afterwards. Windows users will have the data downloaded to their user folder (e.g. C:/Users/<USERNAME>/
).
In addition to usethis
, there are a couple of other packages we'll need:
install.packages(c("cowsay", "palmerpenguins", "knitr", "rmarkdown"))
Now we're ready to go!
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