Intro R with swirl

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About this book

In this exercise, students are introduced to the basics of R using the swirl package (https://swirlstats.com), which teaches students R from within the R console. The primary goal of this exercise is to get students comfortable interacting with the R console.

Learning Objectives

This course will teach learners to:

• Open RStudio and locate important panels (R console, Help)
• Run commands in the R console
• Explain what vectors and dataframes are in R
• Use common R commands to work with R objects (e.g. assign, print, subset, math operations)
• Explore a dataset using base R commands (e.g. dim, summary, str)

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All materials in this course are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License unless noted otherwise.