Lectures
Python for R Users
Introduction to using Python in R and the reticulate package
Best practices for data analyses
A noncomprehensive set of best practices for building data analyses
Tidytext and sentiment analysis
Introduction to tidytext and sentiment analysis
Factors
An introduction to working categorial variables using factors in R
Regular expressions
Introduction to working with character strings and regular expressions in R
Working with dates and times
Introduction to lubridate for dates and times in R
Error Handling and Generation
Implement exception handling routines in R functions
Vectorization and loop functionals
Introduction to vectorization and loop functionals
Control Structures
Introduction to control the flow of execution of a series of R expressions
The ggplot2 plotting system: ggplot()
An overview of the ggplot2 plotting system in R with ggplot()
The ggplot2 plotting system: qplot()
An overview of the ggplot2 plotting system in R with qplot()
Plotting Systems
Overview of three plotting systems in R
Tidy data and the Tidyverse
Introduction to tidy data and how to convert between wide and long data with the tidyr R package
Joining data in R
Introduction to relational data and join functions in the dplyr R package
Managing data frames with the Tidyverse
An introduction to data frames in R and the managing them with the dplyr R package
Reading and Writing data
How to get data in and out of R using relative paths
Literate Statistical Programming
Introduction to literate statistical programming tools including R Markdown
Reference management
How to use citations and incorporate references from a bibliography in R Markdown.
Reproducible Research
Introduction to reproducible research covering some basic concepts and ideas that are related to reproducible reporting
Introduction to R and RStudio!
Let’s dig into the R programming language and the RStudio integrated developer environment
Introduction to git/GitHub
Version control is a game changer; or how I learned to love git/GitHub
Welcome!
Overview course information for BSPH Biostatistics 140.776 in Fall 2022