Lecture 1: Introduction - Bio723-class/Bio723-lecture GitHub Wiki

Learning goals checklist for this class session

• Learn how to create and knit R Markdown notebooks
• Learn how to do basic arithmetic calculations in R
• Learn about the basic R data types
• Learn about the three key R data structures -- vectors, lists, and data frames
  • Learn how to create, index, and modify each of these data structures
  • Learn useful functions for working with vectors, lists, and data frames
  • Learn to combine comparison and indexing to carry out simple data filtering tasks

Slides

• intro-slides

Assignment

Assignment Submission: Be sure to submit your assignment via Sakai, as an R Markdown file and the knit HTML document produced by your markdown file.

• Assignment 00, due 27 January 2021 by beginning of class.

Readings

• Read Chapters 4 and 5 in the Bio 723 Workbook
• Read and work throught the examples in chapters 1-4 of R for Data Science