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In this course, you’ll learn:
- Installing R and RStudio
- Navigating the RStudio environment
- Importing data from a spreadsheet
- Working with the tidyverse
- Piping commands with %>%
- Visualizing data with R base graphics and ggplot2
- Visualizing hierarchical clusters
- Selecting cases and subgroups
- Recoding variables
- Calculating frequencies
- Calculating descriptives
- Calculating correlations
- Computing a linear regression
Syllabus:
- Introduction
- R for data science
- Using the exercise files
- 1. What Is R?
- R in context
2. Getting Started
- Installing R
- Environments for R
- Installing RStudio
- Navigating the RStudio environment
- Entering data
- Data types and structures
- Comments and headers
- Packages for R
- The tidyverse
- Piping commands with %>%
- Sample datasets
- Importing data from a spreadsheet
3. Data Visualization
- Using colors in R
- Creating bar charts
- Creating histograms
- Creating box plots
- Creating scatterplots
- Creating line charts
- Creating cluster charts
4. Data Wrangling
- Selecting cases and subgroups
- Recoding variables
- Computing new variables
5. Data Analysis
- Computing frequencies
- Computing descriptives
- Computing correlations
- Computing a linear regression
- Computing contingency tables
