eddelbuettel/gsir-te

Getting Started in R

An eight-page pdf guide for "Getting Started in R".

Objective

To create a short guide that gives a quick overview and introduction to R.

How?

• Using a practical approach of showing how to do things immediately using realistic examples and a real life dataset.
• Avoiding technical details where possible.
• Making it fun and interesting.

For whom?

• Beginners.
• Data scientists, statisticians, programmers, ... who want to get a flavour of R.
• Those who want a quick refresher guide to R.
• The curious.

Outcome

• After reading the guide, following the examples and doing exercises you will learn how to manipulate, visualise and summarise data.
• Hopefully you will have the curiousity to learn more :)

Try it now!

1. Clone this repo; or download the pdf and R code individually; or download the zip file !
2. The repository and the zip file contain an RStudio Project file.
3. Open the Project file, or Getting-Started-in-R.pdf, or the R code to get started.
4. Enjoy :)

Origin

This is modified version of Getting-Started-in-R by Saghir Bashir, with a careful focus on dependency use which we refer to as The Tinyverse.

Thanks

A big thank you to the reviewers and contributors.

License

GPL-3

Authors

Saghir Bashir and Dirk Eddelbuettel