Guide to R swirl interactive lessons

Keywords

R-programming

Authors

• Jenny Drnevich (@jenny)

Type

• Handout

Description

This handout describes how to download the swirl package and start the basic interactive lessons to learn R.

Aims

Have students be able to practice R swirl lessons on their own

Prerequisites

• Basic computer literacy (point-and-click interface)

Target audience

Graduates students/post docs/beginning faculty with an interest in learning R, particularly for genomic data analysis. No experience with R or other programming languages are required.

Learning objectives

• Be able to read, understand and write simple R code

Materials

• R swirl guide

Data

• none

Timing

About 20 min per swirl lesson

Content stability

Should be stable for any R version > 3.0

Technical requirements

• R version > 3.0
• Add-on packages: swirl
• Optional: RStudio

Literature references

• Programming tools: Adventures with R