Chapter 3 Getting Started with R

This chapter is designed to do the following:

1. Get you up and running with R and RStudio either on the cloud or on your machine (Section 1)

2. Introduce you to some basic commands for data and variable manipulation (Section 2)

3. Introduce you to some introductory data visualization (Section 3)

After the basics are covered in this chapter, you should be able to go back to Chapter 2 and have a better understanding of some of the code there. We will be learning additional R commands as they become needed in the subsequent chapters. By the end of the course, you should have a pretty solid understanding of working your way around R.

Let’s get started!