The Brain & Mind Centre - Introduction into R Workshop: Glossary

R is a programming language

RStudio is an integrated development environment which makes working with R easier

R supports multiple variable types

Errors often result because of trying to perform an unsupported operation on a specific data type

Errors can be cryptic to interpret

We can use helper packages to import and filter data in R

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R supports multiple variable types

Errors often result because of trying to perform an unsupported operation on a specific data type

Errors can be cryptic to interpret

We can use helper packages to import and filter data in R

R markdown notebooks can be very powerful for keeping your code and output in one place

Use if and if-else statements to control the execution of your code

If you have to do something multiple times, you might consider using a loop

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R has a large community of developers creating power tools for data analysis

Tidyverse is a great data wrangling suite of functions

Use haven to read in your SPSS, STATA, etc files

Use dplyr to perform the common data manipulations

ggplot is the best data visualisation package for R

it uses the grammar of graphics to generate a plot layer by layer

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R has a large community of developers creating power tools for data and statistical analysis