Summary and Schedule
This is a new lesson built with The Carpentries Workbench.
| Setup Instructions | Download files required for the lesson | |
| Duration: 00h 00m | 1. Day 1: Starting with Data |
What is R and RStudio, and why should I learn them? How do I organise my working environment in RStudio? How do I create and use objects, vectors, and data frames in R? How do I load external data into R? |
| Duration: 03h 00m | 2. Day 2: Manipulating Data |
How can I select specific columns or rows from a data frame? How can I combine multiple data manipulation steps efficiently? How can I create new columns, summarize data, and reshape data frames? How do I handle dates in R and export data to a file? |
| Duration: 06h 00m | 3. Day 3: Visualising Data |
How can I create publication-quality plots from data in R? How do I map data variables to visual properties in ggplot2? How can I customise the appearance of a plot? How do I save plots to a file? |
| Duration: 09h 00m | Finish |
The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.
FIXME: Setup instructions live in this document. Please specify the tools and the data sets the Learner needs to have installed.
Data Sets
Download the data zip file and unzip it to your Desktop
Software Setup
Details
Setup for different systems can be presented in dropdown menus via a
spoiler tag. They will join to this discussion block, so
you can give a general overview of the software used in this lesson here
and fill out the individual operating systems (and potentially add more,
e.g. online setup) in the solutions blocks.
Use PuTTY
Use Terminal.app
Use Terminal