BIOF 339: Practical R

Installing Software

Directions for installing R and RStudio are provided here.

Continue to the end, where you are asked to install some R packages to start with. If you can’t or are uncomfortable with this step, no worries. We’ll also do it in class.

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Cheatsheets (from RStudio)

• RStudio
• Base R
• R Markdown
• Data import
• Data transformation
• Data visualization
• Manipulating categorical variables
• Manipulating strings
  • Regular expressions
• Manipulating dates

Reading list (click on covers for online versions)

R References

Statistics using R

Data visualization using R

R Markdown

Of partcular interest to us will be chapters on HTML documents and HTML Presentations