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This particular set of lessons has revisions by Karl Broman for a Data Carpentry workshop at UW-Madison on 23-24 August 2016. The official Data Carpentry R-Ecology lessons are at http://www.datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-lesson/.
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This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience. These lessons can be taught in 3/4 of a day. They start with some basic information about R syntax, the RStudio interface, and move through how to import CSV files, the structure of data.frame, how to deal with factors, how to add/remove rows and columns, and finish with how to calculate summary statistics for each level and a very brief introduction to plotting.
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- Introduction to R
- Aggregating and analyzing data with dplyr
- Data visualization with ggplot2
- Reproducible reports with R Markdown
- Capstone project
The data for this lesson is available as a single CSV file, http://kbroman.org/datacarp/portal_data_joined.csv.
We'll download the file during the course of the lesson.
Data Carpentry's teaching is hands-on, so participants are encouraged to use their own computers to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow. These lessons assume no prior knowledge of the skills or tools, but working through this lesson requires working copies of the software described below. To most effectively use these materials, please make sure to install everything before working through this lesson.
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