2 Introduction

Prerequisites

In what follows below, we assume that you have R and RStudio (free/open-source IDE) installed.

Sneak Peek

If you are new to R, the following cheatsheets give you a good idea of how it is like to conduct data analyses in R: Base R, RStudio IDE, dplyr, ggplot2.

If you find the materials in this introduction too technical, please start with ModernDive, an open-source textbook that gave an initial inspiration to start this site. Also, more information on R is available in Section 3, as well as various resources listed in Section 5.