Week 1: Introduction and getting started with R

Agenda

• Welcome and introductions
• About the course; about R
• Installing R, RStudio, and Quarto
• Lab 1 (complete and submit on Moodle by end of class)
  • Submission requires two minor edits to this script: lab_1_blank.qmd

Slides

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Installing required software

Software to install

• R (free and open source)
• RStudio IDE (free commercial software)
• Quarto (free commercial software): “literate programming”

Step-by-step

1. Go to https://cran.rstudio.com and download the latest version of R
2. Go to RStudio Desktop download page and download RStudio Desktop
3. Go to Quarto Getting Started and download Quarto

One more thing

• For labs, we will use Quarto to render code and outputs into pdf documents.
• This has one more prerequisite
  1. In RStudio, in the bottom-left pane, switch from the “Console” to the “Terminal” tab.
  2. Type in and run this command: quarto install tinytex

Additional resources

• Visual timeline of R:
  • Brock, T., Gillespie, C., & Jumping Rivers Team. (2024). A timeline of R’s first 30 years. Jumping Rivers. Retrieved from https://www.jumpingrivers.com/misc/timeline/