This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools related to using R in the context of data analysis. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.  We'll cover: 

• A basic introduction to R and RStudio
• Visualizing your data with ggplot2, the most popular graphing package in R
• Tidying and transforming data for analysis
• Modularizing your code through writing functions

You'll come out of the course with a good foundation on the most important tools in R for working and communicating with data.  If you want to delve more deeply into data visualization and manipulation, take our other courses: 

• Data Visualization with R  - 9-noon, 1/30/2017
• Data Cleaning with R  - 9-noon, 2/6/2017