Intro to R

This week was our introduction to R lecture. This lecture was a brief overview of what R is and how to use it, with the goal of making the newer R users in our community literate in R syntax. For this session users needed to have downloaded both R and R Studio.

First we discussed what R is, along with some great resources that people can use to learn R. The first resource comes from the Software Carpentry team: https://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-gapminder/. The second is from one of our fellow R group members, Rachel Olsson, and is an introduction for new users designed for one of her labs, but applicable here. Make sure to download both the Lab1 Walkthrough and the Floral_diversity dataset.

The R script for our session (in .txt), along with the notes we added to it in class: IntroRScript