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Open guide Beginner's Guide to R offered KdVI and SMASH

Authors: André Heck, Zilva van Rossum, Karen Villari

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Introduction
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Why learn R?
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Why this guide?
Setting up R and RStudio
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Installing R and RStudio
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Keeping your R environment up-to-date
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Recommended set-up
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Why installing two parts?
Getting familiar with the working environment
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Where to find R and Rstudio on your computer?
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RStudio panels
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Creating and saving R scripts
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Writing and running an R script
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Working with working directories
Basic skills in R
Your first calculations with R
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Introduction
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Using R as a calculator
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Creating and working with variables
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Data types
Working with data structures
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Vector
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Matrix
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Table
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Data frame
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Factor
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Array
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List
Getting data into and out of R
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Data import and export: data from the keyboard or the R Wizard
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Importing data from a delimited text file
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Importing data from an Excel file
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Importing data from a website
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Dealing with missing values (NAs) during and after data import
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Combining and cleaning data
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Long versus wide format
Basic graphics
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General information about graphics in R
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The basic plot function and graphical options
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Combining plots
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Bar graph
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Histogram
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Box-and-whisker diagram
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Scatter plot and strip chart
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Line graph
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Quantile-Quantile plot
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Changing margins and size of figures and saving images
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Summary of high-level plotting functions
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Summary of arguments to high-level plotting functions
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Summary of options to change features of a figure
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Summary of low-level plotting functions
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Beyond basic graphics
Working with functions
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Why use functions, anyway?
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What is a function?
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Commonly used functions for numeric vectors
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Combinatorial functions
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Function shortlist
Installation, activation and use of R packages
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Installing and activating packages within RStudio
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Using something from a package without activating the whole package
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Installing packages from Github
Getting help
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Help available inside R and RStudio
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Google information or ask ChatGPT
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Ask a SMASH tutor!
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Troubleshooting error messages
Basic programming
Introduction
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Introduction
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Applying functions on data structures
Control structures
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Conditional instruction
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Logical expressions
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Conditional repetition
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Restricted repetition
Defining functions
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Why use functions, anyway?
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The standard form of a function definition
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Multiple returns and returned values
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Default values for arguments of a function
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Authors: André Heck, Zilva van Rossum, Karen Villari

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