DRAFT - Work in Progress

Repository to be completed.

Overview

Repsitory of teaching materials for "Getting Started in R" (tidyverse edition) Sworkshop (course).

This repository is contains materials for basic R concepts and tidyverse basics (~4 hour) workshop. The target audience is R beginners to "intermediate" R users. It is ideal for R meetup groups, R user groups or as pre-conference workshop.

Running the Workshop

• Use the workshop presentation (HTML):
  • (https://github.com/saghirb/R-tidyverse-Intro/tree/master/Presentation)
• Share the following zip file with the participants:
  • (https://github.com/saghirb/R-tidyverse-Intro/raw/master/Share/GSiR.zip)
  • Ask them to Unzip

Part 1

• After presenting and demonstrating the basic R concepts:
  • Participants should work through Share/R-Concepts/Base-R-Exercises.pdf in the zip file.

Part 2

• After presenting and demonstrating the data.table basics:
  • Ask the participant to double click on Share/World-Popn/World-Popn.Rproj to open Rstudio with the right setup.
  • Participants should then work through Share/World-Popn/World-Population-Exercises.Rmd in the zip file.
  • Start by knitting the document.
  • Ask them to change the name to their name and knit again.

At the End of the Course

• Share the solutions to the World Population exercises (zip file)
  • (https://github.com/saghirb/R-tidyverse-Intro/raw/master/Share/World-Popn-solutions.zip)

Re-creating the Workshop Materials.

Run the _make.R script in the R console.

Why tidyverse?

From the tidyverse website

The tidyverse is an opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science. All packages share an underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures.

For further information see https://www.tidyverse.org/.

Acknowledgements

The materials presented in this repository are complementary to Getting Started in R

Thanks to Hadley Wickham and all the tidyverse team and contributors for such a great set of packages.