Workshop on R

May 2018

Hosted by Virginia Education Science Training (VEST) Program at UVA

Overview
Schedule
Getting started
Modules
Data

Software links

Unless you have experience building from source, select the binary download that matches your operating system (e.g., Windows, OS X/MacOS). If no options are available, the download will work on all systems.

Required

R (get latest version)

RStudio (get latest version)

Suggested

Markdown (v. 1.0.1)

(La)TeX:

R packages to install

This workshop uses the following packages:

Once you’ve installed R and RStudio, open RStudio (or the base R app) and run the following code:

pkgs <- c('tidyverse','labelled','plotly','survey','Rcpp',
          'microbenchmark','rvest','lubridate','leaflet',
		  'sf','RColorBrewer','devtools')
install.packages(pkgs)

You will also need the development version of ggplot2 from GitHub. Once you’ve installed devtools, run the following code:

devtools::install_github('tidyverse/ggplot2')
NOTE

You may be asked to choose a download mirror. Just pick one that is nearby.