RStudio and GitHub Tour

Tour of RStudio + RMarkdown + GitHub

Getting started

• Go to the course GitHub organization: https://github.com/math118-fall2022.

• If you see a pending invite at the top of the page, accept the invite to join the course invite. We’ll come back to GitHub later.

Tour of R and RStudio

Let’s take a tour of R and RStudio. I’ll do a short demo, then give you a few minutes to try out yourself.

Concepts introduced

• Console
• Using R as a calculator
• Environment
• Loading and viewing a data frame
• Accessing a variable in a data frame
• R functions

Your turn!

• Go ahead and open up RStudio.

• Use R as a calculator by typing the following in the console.

3 * 5 + 10

x <- 3
x + x^2

x <- 1:10
x*7