These are the help pages for the Genes to Geosciences introduction to R module.

Topics we will cover today:

1. Preliminaries: Getting your environment set up.
2. Getting started: Starting R, using it as a calculator, and variables.
3. Loading data: Reading in data, viewing, and subsetting.
4. Writing functions: Avoiding errors and better describing your intent.
5. Data types: A digression on data types
6. Repeating things: Introduction to ways of automating repetitive tasks.
7. Missing data: Another digression on missing data.

I’ve collected a few resources to help you continue learning.

I’ve also made a non-exhaustive list of bad habits that you should avoid and tips you should follow.

We can’t possibly cover everything, for example.

Slides from the other days:

Afternoon of day two: statistics (by Drew Allen).

Morning of day three: plotting (by Josh Madin).