R workshop, not a course (Summer ’26)

I figured I would just dump some info on this page so that it is easy for you all to access it.

Objective for this workshop

1.5 hr/day multi-day workshop. The first few meetings will be basic R, plotting and tidyverse, and then we can go in any direction that you guys would like. I will try to update this webpage after each meeting.

Preliminaries

You will need to download R and R Studio for this workshop. R is the real programming engine, and by itself is sufficient to do the stuff we will do. R Studio is just a nice “front-end” (IDE = Integrated Development Environment) that allows you to look at everything you need in one “integrated” window. Installation locations:

  1. Install R.
  2. Install R Studio.

You can download the FREE version of RStudio Desktop. Please make sure to install both before the first meeting so that we don’t waste time on download/installation during the meeting.

Venue

We will meet in B-443 Wells Hall.

Schedule

Day and Date Time Content/Notes Video Link
Thursday, 2026-05-07 3:00 - 4:30pm Base R link
Friday, 2026-05-08 3:00 - 4:30pm Basic tidyverse, data link
Monday, 2026-05-11 3:00 - 4:30pm Plotting link
Tuesday, 2026-05-12 3:00 - 4:30pm More R,data1, data2,coding,data3 link
Wednesday, 2026-05-13 3:00 - 4:30pm regex, r->LaTeX link

Cheatsheets

  1. For data munging using tidyverse functions (dplyr).
  2. For plotting using tidyverse functions (ggplot2).
  3. Other useful Cheatsheets

Other resources

  1. I came across this nice introduction to dplyr (tidyverse data munging).