1 Get your computer ready

1.1 Install R

R is the core software

1.2 Install R Studio

R Studio is a slick (very slick) GUI interface for developing R projects

1.3 Resources for installing R and R Studio

1.4 Install LaTeX

LaTeX (“la-tek”) is necessary to use the pdf output of R Markdown.

2 Start learning

2.1 Start with Data Camp Introduction to R

2.2 Then Move to Introduction to R Studio

2.3 Develop your project with an R Studio Notebook

2.4 Getting Data into R

2.5 Additional R learning resources

3 Packages used extensively in the Walker lab

ggplot2

data.table

lme4

nlme

emmeans

readxl

reshape2

3.1 We explore data and make publication quality plots with ggplot2

3.2 We use data.table

Getting started with R