Workshop 1: R Basics for Data Analysis

Fursham Hamid

Overview

Duration: 2 hours

Objectives

1. Describe the purpose and use of each pane in the RStudio IDE
2. Assign data to a variable
3. Call functions
4. Read data into R
5. Describe the structure of a data-frame
6. Use the six main data frame manipulation ‘verbs’ with pipes in dplyr
7. Analyze a subset of data using logical filtering

Before starting the lesson

To facilitate the timeliness of the lesson, please ensure that you have these programs installed on your computer.

• Latest version of R
  • For Windows
  • For Mac
  • For Linux
• Latest version of RStudio

Lesson schedule

00:00	Introduction and overview
00:15	1. Introduction to R and RStudio	How do I navigate around RStudio?
00:20	2. Basic R commands	How do I interact with R? How do I use R functions?
00:40	3. Read and write data in R	How can I read data into R? How can I export R data?
00:50	Break
01:00	4. Data frame Manipulation with dplyr	How can I easily manipulate data-frames?
01:50	Finish