Week 1 Lecture: Intro to R, RStudio and Rmarkdown
IBS 519 Week 1 Lecture by Melinda Higgins: Intro to R, RStudio and Rmarkdown
Today's class will cover:
- Explore RStudio environment
- command line
- R scripts
- packages
- getting help
- R markdown intro (brief)
- Importing & viewing data
- abalone dataset
str(),dim(),head(),tail()functions
- Data types - classes of variables
- strings
- integers
- numeric
- logical
- factors (brief intro)
For this lecture, we will be working with the abalone dataset and these packages:
- readr
- knitr
- rmarkdown
- printr
- tinytex