Computing With Data Using R (2019)

Preparation

Install R and RStudio

Please install R and RStudio as described here: https://asta.math.aau.dk/software/R-installation. For Windows users: Please install in c:\programs\ as described in the guide.

Be sure that R is at least version 3.5.0. And please install the tidyverse (meta-)package by the R command install.packages("tidyverse").

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.

Everybody

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

Please familiarise yourself with the following material:

• RStudio Essentials: Part 1 (Writing code in RStudio)
• YouTube playlist: DataCamp - R tutorial - Learn R Programming, video 1-12 and video 17-23 (i.e. all except video 13-16).

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