hey!! i saw a post of yours reblogged and you said you were using the program R! im registering for my first year of college rn and ill be taking a class with that program. any tips or info you can share?
Hey you, @flightymacaw!
I’d suggest installing R Studio (linked) which delivers a great interface to code your scripts, show output, libraries and help/package documentation in one window.
Learn what data types there are.
Learn about data structurs and data frames.
Get familiar with the general structure of the R language. If you can, maybe already figure out what topics will be covered in the class and read up on the stats? (Although, this is reaaally ambitious, by my standards, for a first year’s student, but it can’t harm)
On the R Studio website there’re also cheatsheets to be found and links to blogs.
r-bloggers is also a great resource but this might be more helpful once you are more advanced and have specific issues to solve. I find it difficult to pinpoint where to start because I just learnt in on my own and that probably wasn’t the best way.
Most valuable packages:
anything in the tidyverse but mostly dplyr and ggplot2. Here’s a good book to learn how to work them (online and free).
I hope this isn’t too overwhelming.
Generally, I’d suggest you just play around in RStudio. Generate or download a data set and write a few lines, calculate some ratios, plot something, just to get familiar with it.
If your code won’t compile, check if you closed all brackets, installed and loaded needed packages/libraries. Those are common issues. You can’t really break anything, so just play around and enjoy the steep learning curve :’D