Introduction to R Seminar

Welcome to the IDRE Introduction to R Seminar!

This seminar assumes you have both R and RStudio installed.

Before beginning the seminar, please open RStudio (or R) and run the following code:

install.packages("dplyr", dependencies=TRUE)
install.packages("ggplot2", dependencies=TRUE)
install.packages("rmarkdown", dependencies=TRUE)

Introduction to R Seminar: Left-click the link to open the presentation directly. To download the presentation with all images (so you can look at it offline), open the presentation (by left-clicking), then right-click in the presentation, select “Save As”, and then make sure you save as type “Webpage, Complete” (Note: this will download the webpage and a folder of images and style files).

Use any web browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc.) to view the seminar. Once it is open, use the following keys to alter the display:

• use arrow keys, mouse click, or spacebar to advance slides
• a toggles between slide-show view and handout view (view all slides at once)
• k to disable advancing slides with mouse-click (if you need to copy-paste code, for example)
• s and b to make the font bigger and smaller
• F11 to go to full-screen and back

R code for the seminar: The R code used in the slides can be found in this file.