ETC5513: Collaborative and Reproducible Practices

Tutorial 1

Author

Michael Lydeamore

Published

16 April 2025

🎯 Objectives

  • Getting to know your colleagues
  • Getting setup with R, RStudio and GitHub
  • What is R and why do we need it?
  • Getting some practice in R
  • Learn about R and RStudio Resources

R in practice

There are plenty of resources to start getting to know how R works. Here are a couple:

  1. StartR
  2. Posit (R) Primers

For this tutorial, please work through Modules 3 and 4, and also Quarto Basics. Don’t worry if you don’t make it all the way through them in class

R and Rstudio Cheat Sheets

There are lots of Cheat Sheets and you don’t need to learn all about them in this tutorial. The goal here is that you get familiar with those resources so that you can use them when you need to during the semester. Browse over the site and get an idea about what is available.

You can find the cheat sheets here

Familiarize yourself with useful resources for R programming

There are lots of wonderful R, Rstudio and Data science using R resources that will help you during the semester. Below there is a list to get you started:

A more comprehensive list of books that are freely available can be fond on the following webpage: Book list