This is the landing page for Introduction to R (MATH 130) class offered at California State University, Chico.

Target Audience

Anyone who wants to do their own data analysis! This is a primer to get the complete novice up and running with the basic knowledge of how to use the statistical programming language R for data analysis. Topics include: R programming basics, importing data, properties of tidy data, visualizing data, reproducible research with Markdown and basic data wrangling. Designed to get you up and running with basic knowledge of R and Markdown ASAP. This course is designed as a pre-requisite for most upper division Statistics, and all Data Science courses which use R heavily.

See the syllabus for details about the current class offerings.

Last Updated: 08/24/2024

Schedule

Click each weekly header below to go to the materials for that week.

Week 1: Getting started with R and R Studio

Lectures 01-04: Introduction to the class, new tools, R Markdown and R.

Week 2: Introduction to working with data in R and wrangling factors

Lectures 05-06: Learn to manipulate and work with data in R. How to manage factor variables.

Week 3: Wrangling data and Intro to graphing

Lectures 07-08: Streamline your data processing steps so you can get to making pretty pictures to win friends and influence people.

Week 4: Intermediate graphing & Importing external data

Lectures 09-10: Interesting data doesn’t live inside R. Lets get data from an external file into R, and learn how to make more complex plots.

Week 5: Putting it all together: Exploratory Project

Now it’s time to put your new 1337 skillz to the test! You will conduct an exploratory data analysis project.

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