Starting with R

Sell It

R is a powerful language for statistics and visualization with an active community. Packages like tidyverse make data wrangling intuitive, and the language was designed with data analysis in mind from the start.

Show It

An example script plots a built-in dataset to produce an immediate visualization:

plot(cars)

Do It

1. Install R. Download the latest version from the R Project.
2. Install RStudio. Get the free RStudio Desktop IDE for a user-friendly interface.
3. Open RStudio. Create a new script file and paste in the example above.
4. Install a package. Run install.packages("tidyverse") to add common tools for data science.
5. Run the script. Highlight the code and click Run or press Ctrl+Enter to generate the plot.

Review It

Confirm the plot appears in the Plots pane and use sessionInfo() to see package versions. Explore the Environment and Help tabs to get comfortable with the interface.