Getting Started in R & RStudio

The first of a four-part series on using R and RStudio.

This series is based on the Data Carpentry R for Ecologists tutorial.
Michonneau et al. (2020). “datacarpentry/R-ecology-lesson: Data Carpentry: Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Ecologists, June 2019.” doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3264888, https://datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-l....

By the end of the series you will be able to:

Describe the purpose of the RStudio Script, Console, Environment, and Plots panes.
Organize files and directories for a set of analyses as an R Project, and understand the purpose of the working directory.
Use the built-in RStudio help interface to search for more information on R functions.
Demonstrate how to provide sufficient information for troubleshooting with the R user community.