Lecture 2: Basic Operations in R & RStudio (05/20/2024)

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What we will learn

Organizing R Data Analysis

  • Organizing project directories and naming files are crucial to successful data analysis in R

  • Metadata should be stored in specially dedicated files and can help better data QC & analysis

  • Backing-up data and scripts is very important and should NOT be delayed

Introduction to R packages

  • There are more than 20,000 R packages to help with data analysis

  • We can use many sources (Google search, AI chat, etc) to find the best R packages for our task

  • When using packages we need to understand how they work and what input they require

What we will Practice

R packages: installation & basic usage