R Crash Course
Navigate to the Course Page
Go to reed.edu/data-at-reed. In the side panel, click Workshops. Click the one called Analysis Demo.
Agenda
This workshop will walk you through a complete data analysis from start to finish. We’ll be working with real data, and by the end of this session, you’ll have created visualizations, calculated statistics, and built a reproducible analysis that you can run again with a single click.
We’ll focus on learning by doing. Rather than covering every detail of R syntax, we’ll work through a realistic analysis together, and I’ll explain concepts as we go. We will go fast, and you probably won’t get every single thing we do. That’s okay and expected. What you will get out of today is that, by the end, you’ll have a general understanding of how R works and a template you can adapt for your own projects.
We are starting from scratch and so you should not expect yourself to understand all aspects of the code right away. The main thing you should focus on is knowing what parts of the code you can swap out to adapt it to your data.
R is a language; it takes time to learn how to have a conversation.
If you need help with any part of the coding work, the best place to go is the DataLab in ETC 226. There are also additional R resources on the Data@Reed R page, including a few workshops that go through what we’ll be doing but a little bit slower.
This workshop is designed for you to code entirely within this browser, but if you would like to use your own version of R, you can either download it (be sure to download R and RStudio) or use the Reed R Server.
For in depth information on how to run R on the Reed Server or on your desktop go to the Getting Started workshop.