2 Day 3 - intoduction to R
Learning Goals:
By the end of today’s session, students will be able to:
- Navigate the RStudio environment and move between the different panels.
- Open, save, and run an Rmd (R Markdown) file within RStudio.
- Apply internet searches, help functions, and documentation to learn to use the appropriate functions.
- Assign and manipulate variables within the current environment/session in R.
- Create, modify, and access into a vector (an ordered grouping of elements).
- Create, modify, and access into a dataframe (an ordered two-dimensional grouping of elements with rows and columns).
- Apply existing functions to accomplish a specific task in R.
Preparing for Today: Please read through all parts of Section 1: Workshop Introduction.
Before you start reading through Section 2 for today or taking part in synchronous activities, download and open today’s worksheet. On this Github page, please right-click the button that says “Raw” and click “Save Link As…” to get a local copy of this Rmd file on your computer and open it in Rstudio.
Today’s Schedule:
| Start Time | End Time | Activity | Description | Facilitator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM PDT | 10:45 AM PDT | Synchronous | Welcome session on Zoom | Melissa, Samson, Margaret, Zac, Darach |
| 10:45 AM PDT | 11:30 AM PDT | Asynchronous | Work through sections 2.1-2.3 | Zac, Samson, Darach |
| 11:30 AM PDT | 12:15 PM PDT | Synchronous | Peer coding exercises on Zoom | Melissa, Samson, Zac, Darach |
| 12:15 PM PDT | 12:45 PM PDT | Lunch Break | Take a computer break! | N/A |
| 12:45 PM PDT | 1:30 PM PDT | Asynchronous | Work through sections 2.4-2.5 | Margaret, Zac, Samson |
| 1:30 PM PDT | 2:30 PM PDT | Synchronous | Peer coding exercises on Zoom | Melissa, Samson, Zac |
| 2:30 PM PDT | 3:00 PM PDT | Snack Break | Take a computer break! | N/A |
| 3:00 PM PDT | 3:30 PM PDT | Synchronous | Wrap-up session on Zoom | Samson, Margaret, Darach, Zac |
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