Data @ Reed R Resources

Welcome to the Data at Reed GitHub repository. This contains the source code for the new and improved Data at Reed R Resources site. The site contains walkthroughs and tutorials for some common R usages.

Contents

01. Getting Started with R

The RStudio Server, Desktop R, Script vs Markdown terminology, thesisdown, and meeting the palmerpenguins

02. Loading Data

readr, readxl, googlesheets4, and rvest

03. Wrangling Data

Tidy data principles, tidyr, dplyr, and stringr

04. Presentation & Visualization

graphs with ggplot2, tables with knitr and kableExtra

05. More Resources

Learning more & getting connected- cheatsheets, online textbooks, and where to ask for help.

About the Data

We use palmerpenguins as an example dataset to demonstrate important functions instead of iris. Here’s some documentation for palmerpenguins, and some info on why we’re not using iris.

Artwork by @allison_horst and @jules32

Credits

Written by Kristin Bott, Simon Couch, Leila Shokat, Josh Yamamoto, and Ingrid Zoll

Palmer Penguins artwork by Allison Horst and Julia Lowndes