Week 35.2 — Course Introduction, An introduction to R

Friday 28 August, 12:30–16:00

Preparation, materials, and follow-up for the class on Friday 28 August 2026

In the this class, you’ll be introduced to the course and start to learn about the R language. We will dig deeper into the R language and look at the different types of data we will encounter, and how these are represented in R.

Before class

Before class, prepare by completing these tasks

• Read the Introduction chapter in the r4ds (R for Data Science) book

In class

What you’ll be doing

• You will continue to learn the R language and practice entering commands in the R console and write scripts

• You will work through a document that covers many of the things from the video and challenges you to use R to solve a number of questions.

Slides

• The basics of the R language

Activities

• Introduction to R
• Additional R exercise

After class

• To recap topics we’ve covered so far, read Chapter 2 of r4ds!

• Watch this video for a recap to the R language. This is a longer video but you don’t need to watch it all in one go. I have added Chapters with timestamps in the description which you can use to jump to the main topics covered in the video. The chapters are also indicated on the progress bar if you hover over the video with your pointer.

• read Chapter 12 of r4ds on Logical vectors, and

• read Chapter 13 of r4ds on Numbers.