Chapter 3 Getting Started with R

This chapter is designed to get R on your machine (Section 1), introduce you to some basic commands for data and variable manipulation (Section 2), and introduce you to some introductory data visualization (Section 3). We will also be using a companion software called Rstudio which will make our interaction with R much more pleasant.

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!