Rudimentary R and Knecessary Knowledge
By Mike Proctor
| Dec 11, 2021
| rstudio
The Bare Necessesities
Learning R from scratch can be an onerous task. When I first started to learn programming, the only development environment was a text editor, and mice were just vermin that you really didn’t want in the computer lab. There just wasn’t that much to learn at once. Things have changed. Not only are you trying to learn the syntax of R but the idiosyncrasies of an IDE(RStudio), and all the assorted details like data structures and types.
Packages and Libraries in R
By Mike Proctor
| Nov 15, 2021
| rstudio
Packages/Libraries
These are scripts written by others that deal with a specific task or types of data.
For example the “lubridate” package deals entirely with formatting and working with dates and times.
The capacity to use scripts contributed by others are one of the things that make R (and Python) so useful.
Whatever you are trying to do, someone has probably developed one or more packages to deal with it.
Pane layout in RStudio
By Mike Proctor
| Nov 15, 2021
| rstudio
Pane layout in RStudio
Upon opening RStudio there are some areas of interest to point out.
The location of these may vary depending on whose machine you are looking at as they can be customized to personal preferences.
The RStudio interface consists of four “panes”.
These panes show different types of information related to your code.
Some also have their own tabs at the top that pertain to different types of information.
Setting up a project in RStudio
By Mike Proctor
| Nov 15, 2021
| rstudio
Setting up a project in RStudio
Projects in RStudio act something like a container for your “project”. Working with projects helps to keep your files and data organized. (You don’t technically have to use a project but life will be easier.) Setting a project up really isn’t as complex as it sounds.
Start RStudio, click on “File/Project” and either create a folder or select a folder for the project.