Computing With Data Using R (2018)

Preparation

Install R and RStudio

Please install R and RStudio as described here: http://asta.math.aau.dk/eng/software/r/.

Do exercises

If your statistics is rusty

To recap basic statistics, please review the following material (feel free to jump in the material):

1. Displaying and describing data
2. Modeling distributions of data
3. Describing relationships in quantitative data
4. Probability
5. Confidence intervals (one sample)
6. Significance tests (one sample)
7. First chapter of Intro to Statistics with R: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

In general, there are many good videos at "Statistics and probability" at Khan Academy and at DataCamp.

If you have never programmed before

Code School's Try R

Everybody

Please review the ressources given above to be sure that you are not missing anything.

Please familiarise yourself with the following material:

• Introduction to R
• Chapter 1 "Authoring R Markdown Reports" of Reporting with R Markdown

Make the exercises in 00-R-intro-exercises.Rmd. Open the file in RStudio and try to compile it. Remember to save it somewhere you can find again.

Additional ressources

You can find more material here:

• RStudio IDE Cheat Sheet
• R Markdown Cheat Sheet
• Base R Cheat Sheet