A Beginner's Guide to R Through the Tidyverse

What is R and the Tidyverse

R is a statistical programming language. It is software program that you run by typing code.

People extend R by bundling code they wrote into packages. Tidyverse is a set of R packages that help simplify and extend common data tasks. These packages contain functions which are like shortcuts to help run tasks.

Your first line of code

To test whether your installation of R is working you can print something on the screen. You can do this by running this:

hello world

print("Hello World!")

Try changing the text inside the quotation marks and run the code again. Edit the code below and click the run button. For example, you can change the text to “Hello Earth!” and run the code again.

hello world

print("")

Exploring an Example dataset

In this course, we will use an inbuilt dataset called mtcars. We can simply enter mtcars and run the code. Click the run button to see the dataset.

mtcars

mtcars

Review

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